Last season Topspin beat, drew with and lost to Data, so anything was possible this evening, especially with James Molloy in top form on an unbeaten 8 set run. Following Greenleys Warriors defeat last night we needed a 7-3 win ourselves to catch them up but failed at the last hurdle when James extended his run of wins to 11 with a terrific 4-game victory over previously unbeaten Mervyn Kelly.
 

So, a good night’s work for James, who also took a feisty doubles with Rob McPheat while Topspin mopped up the remaining 6 singles. Rob did get himself in good positions several times, only to fail at the 'death’, losing 6 games by 11-9, while Dave McGarragh has to consider himself hard done by to go home empty handed.
 

I did log Dave’s misfortunes, of which there were many. After a terrible start with the first 9 points against Russell Penn lost, Dave fought back to hold 2 match points in the 4th game (one of which was saved on a ‘net)’ and another in the decider when Dave’s eyes lit up at the chance to play his favourite forehand smash. But he over-egged the shot, hitting long to allow Russell back into the match and ultimately to win it.  Then against Mervyn, Dave led 2-1 in games and by 8-4 and again 11-10 (for another match point) in the 4th, before eventually losing in the decider. And during his set with Mervyn he managed to smash his bat on the umpire’s table with his ‘follow through’ after a winning forehand that knocked the centre pole holding the dividing curtain out of kilter to ‘bring the curtain down’ on an eventful evening.