Open University Primes 6-4 Milton Keynes Topspin

League

Division One

Monday 18 December 2023

Game Result Score Match score
1 Patrick Wong beat David Wackrill (3-0) 11-9, 12-10, 11-3 1-0
2 Ning He lost to Mervyn Kelly (2-3) 8-11, 12-10, 8-11, 11-9, 13-15 1-1
3 Andy Tan beat Jiten Pitamber (3-0) 11-8, 11-6, 11-4 2-1
4 Andy Tan & Patrick Wong lost to Mervyn Kelly & Jiten Pitamber (1-3) 4-11, 10-12, 11-0, 4-11 2-2
5 Ning He beat David Wackrill (3-2) 9-11, 7-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-7 3-2
6 Patrick Wong lost to Jiten Pitamber (2-3) 8-11, 11-7, 12-14, 13-11, 6-11 3-3
7 Andy Tan beat Mervyn Kelly (3-1) 11-7, 9-11, 11-5, 11-8 4-3
8 Ning He lost to Jiten Pitamber (0-3) 9-11, 10-12, 4-11 4-4
9 Andy Tan beat David Wackrill (3-0) 11-6, 11-2, 11-5 5-4
10 Patrick Wong beat Mervyn Kelly (3-0) 12-10, 11-8, 19-17 6-4
Team Legs won Legs average (%) Points won Points average (%)
Open University Primes 23 60.53 387 53.09
Milton Keynes Topspin 15 39.47 342 46.91
Team Player Games played Games won Legs played Legs won Legs average (%) Points played Points won Points average (%)
Open University Primes Patrick Wong 3 2 11 8 72.73 237 126 53.16
Open University Primes Ning He 3 1 13 5 38.46 259 124 47.88
Open University Primes Andy Tan 3 3 10 9 90.00 170 108 63.53
Milton Keynes Topspin David Wackrill 3 0 11 2 18.18 196 80 40.82
Milton Keynes Topspin Mervyn Kelly 3 1 12 4 33.33 258 122 47.29
Milton Keynes Topspin Jiten Pitamber 3 2 11 6 54.55 212 106 50.00
New date Monday 18 December 2023
Start time 19:30
Original date Thursday 21 December 2023
Competition League
Division Division One
Venue Open University
Season 2023-2024
Legs played 38
Points played 729
Published 21/12/2024 16:00 by David Wackrill.
TOPSPIN TAKE A ‘TANNING’ BUT STILL MAKE IT TO CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE

Back to back defeats are hardly the stuff champions are made of, but for now my Topspin side are top of the tree and will have remained so for over 100 days by the time we play again in January.

Our genial OU hosts changed both the date and venue of this fixture, as we played at the club studio on this occasion with Patrick Wong. Andy Tan and Ning He facing off against Jit Pitamber, Mervyn Kelly and myself.

The Primes, shooting for top position themselves, certainly made it tough going all the way for Topspin as we had to equalize the match score 4 times over before finally capitulating in the last 2 sets of the night (both in straight games too). But by then Jit had made the Christmas top spot safe by winning our 4th set of the night.

A terrific hat-trick by Andy, with just one game dropped, was supported by a brace from Patrick and a single from Ning which saw the Primes home. In response Topspin‘s Jit bagged a brace, Mervyn one and the pair took the doubles between them (incidentally taking them to 2nd place in the doubles averages). Zero for me but a magnificent match nonetheless.

Man of the match : Andy Tan