Milton Keynes Topspin 3-7 Greenleys Warriors

League

Division One

Monday 12 February 2018

Set	Result	Games	Score	Match score
1	David Wackrill lost to Ricky Taiwo	2-11, 2-11, 8-11	0-3	0-1
2	Mervyn Kelly lost to Oliver Horswell	7-11, 11-8, 12-14, 9-11	1-3	0-2
3	Russell Penn lost to Jordi Amat Foraster	7-11, 5-11, 9-11	0-3	0-3
4	Mervyn Kelly & Russell Penn beat Oliver Horswell & Jordi Amat Foraster	8-11, 11-5, 12-10, 11-9	3-1	1-3
5	Mervyn Kelly lost to Ricky Taiwo	11-7, 10-12, 6-11, 1-11	1-3	1-4
6	David Wackrill lost to Jordi Amat Foraster	10-12, 5-11, 6-11	0-3	1-5
7	Russell Penn lost to Oliver Horswell	8-11, 20-18, 6-11, 8-11	1-3	1-6
8	Mervyn Kelly beat Jordi Amat Foraster	9-11, 12-10, 11-7, 3-11, 11-9	3-2	2-6
9	Russell Penn beat Ricky Taiwo	13-11, 14-12, 8-11, 8-11, 11-8	3-2	3-6
10	David Wackrill lost to Oliver Horswell	5-11, 6-11, 8-11	0-3	3-7

Team summaries

Team	Games won	Games average (%)	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Topspin	12	31.58	324	44.44
Greenleys Warriors	26	68.42	405	55.56

Player summaries

Player	Sets played	Sets won	Games played	Games won	Games average (%)	Points played	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Topspin
David Wackrill	3	0	9	0	0.00	152	52	34.21
Mervyn Kelly	3	1	13	5	38.46	246	113	45.94
Russell Penn	3	1	12	4	33.33	254	117	46.06
Greenleys Warriors
Ricky Taiwo	3	2	12	8	66.67	221	127	57.47
Oliver Horswell	3	3	11	9	81.82	228	128	56.14
Jordi Amat Foraster	3	2	11	8	72.73	203	115	56.65

Match details

Date	Monday 12 February 2018
Start time	19:30
Competition	League
Division	Division One
Venue	Milton Keynes Table Tennis Centre
Season	2017-2018
Games played	38
Points played	729

Report

Published 26/04/2025 20:41 by David Wackrill; edited 2 times, last on 26/04/2025 20:41 by David Wackrill.

We scanned the card for any ineligible players Warriors may have tried to slip into their team, as they do, but no luck there so Topspin had to win all our points on the table.

A poor night for us at Topspin as I couldn’t get going in the opening set against Ricky Taiwo (he wouldn’t let me) and we went from bad to worse, losing the opening 6 singles sets with just the doubles won, before a mini revival. Jordi Armat played up for them from division 2 and I see he’s only lost to Barry Bishop in this division before this evening. Very impressed with his play, likes to go for his shots whatever the match situation and reads the game well for himself and his team-mates. After beating Russell Penn in straight games Armat was advising Ricky on how to play against Mervyn Kelly after a first game defeat. It must have been sound advise as Ricky won the next 3 games 10,6 & 1, particularly bearing in mind that Mervyn had beaten Ricky in their pre-Christmas encounter. But Mervyn had the last laugh as he came from behind in the 5th game to beat Armat when they met later on. Mervyn was superb and that win’s right up there with his best of the season against Biao Wang.

Our other success came from Russell over Ricky in a tight 5-gamer. That’s a good home and away double for Russell against Ricky. Ollie Horswell completed the visitors line up and played brilliantly for his maximum.

Warriors are pretty much out of sight now with a 19 point advantage over Topspin and just 3 matches left to bridge the gap. If they had any idea about how to play doubles Warriors (3 wins all season tells it's own story) would have won the League already by now.