Milton Keynes Topspin 9-1 Leighton Buzzard Van Hire

League

Division One

Wednesday 18 October 2023

Set	Result	Games	Score	Match score
1	David Wackrill beat Fabrice Spelta	9-11, 11-4, 11-7, 11-8	3-1	1-0
2	Jiten Pitamber beat Sophie Storey	11-8, 11-6, 11-9	3-0	2-0
3	Russell Penn beat Mateusz Browarnik	6-11, 11-7, 12-14, 11-9, 11-9	3-2	3-0
4	Russell Penn & Jiten Pitamber beat Mateusz Browarnik & Fabrice Spelta	13-11, 11-8, 8-11, 12-10	3-1	4-0
5	Jiten Pitamber beat Fabrice Spelta	11-6, 12-10, 12-10	3-0	5-0
6	David Wackrill beat Mateusz Browarnik	11-4, 11-6, 9-11, 11-5	3-1	6-0
7	Russell Penn beat Sophie Storey	11-9, 11-6, 12-10	3-0	7-0
8	Jiten Pitamber beat Mateusz Browarnik	11-9, 11-3, 11-4	3-0	8-0
9	Russell Penn lost to Fabrice Spelta	6-11, 11-8, 4-11, 11-6, 11-13	2-3	8-1
10	David Wackrill beat Sophie Storey	11-7, 11-6, 11-4	3-0	9-1

Team summaries

Team	Games won	Games average (%)	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Topspin	29	78.38	390	56.36
Leighton Buzzard Van Hire	8	21.62	302	43.64

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	3	11	9	81.82	190	117	61.58
Jiten Pitamber	3	3	9	9	100.00	166	101	60.84
Russell Penn	3	2	13	8	61.54	252	128	50.79
Leighton Buzzard Van Hire
Fabrice Spelta	3	1	12	4	33.33	225	105	46.67
Sophie Storey	3	0	9	0	0.00	165	65	39.39
Mateusz Browarnik	3	0	12	3	25.00	218	92	42.20

Match details

Date	Wednesday 18 October 2023
Start time	19:30
Competition	League
Division	Division One
Venue	Milton Keynes Table Tennis Centre
Season	2023-2024
Games played	37
Points played	692

Report

Published 25/04/2025 14:06 by David Wackrill.

VAN MEN SENT PACKIN’ AT LAST

Hurray! My Topspin side are celebrating our first win over Van Hire since 2017 after a run of 5 consecutive defeats, including the 3 meetings last year when we were both in the Premier. So far this campaign though, the respective teams have enjoyed vastly differing fortunes. Topspin are flying whilst Van Hire are struggling in the drop zone to Div 2. And so it continued here.

The Leighton Buzzard club team came to MK with an overload of players due to a misunderstanding in their ranks. Andy Fiske was the man who missed out while Sophie Storey, Mateusz Browarnik and skipper Fabrice Spelta featured in the match. Topspin went with Jit Pitamber, Russell Penn and myself this time.

Fabrice started against me. Last time we met I was annihilated with some fast hitting and it looked like going the same way again as he raced into an 8-1 lead in the opening game within the first minute. But, thankfully, the onslaught was unsustained and I managed to turn the match around and establish the pattern of home wins for the evening.

Russell looked down and out in his opening set when trailing 8-3 in the decider against Mateusz but you can never write him off and he duly bounced back brilliantly to snatch the win at deuce. However, his luck ran out in the penultimate set of the match when Fabrice beat him 13-11 in the 5th to snatch Van Hire’s sole success.

Jit looked untroubled throughout as he polished off his opponents with straight game wins. A good night’s work for the Lutonian as he prepares for a weekend tournament in Preston. Best of luck to Jit there.

Man of the match : Jit Pitamber