PREMIER ROUND-UP WEEK 2
TOPSPIN BROWNED-OFF
By his own standards MK Titansâ Craig Brown has made a shaky start to the season so far, but he put that behind him with a devastating display to demolishing his opponents, allowing his Topspin club-mates only 45 points between them in his straight games victories. Not since the days of Matt Haynes a few years back has there been such a one-sided set of scores in the Prem. Leaders Titans won the match 10-0 with further hat-tricks coming from Nick Howard and Ricky Taiwo. For Topspin, Russell Penn made his frequent fast start in the opening set against Nick, coming close to extending his opponent to a deciding game when leading 10-6 in the 4th, but it was mostly all downhill after that bright beginning. Jit Pitamber and Mervyn Kelly were the other Topspiners.
Greenleys Warriors agreed to reverse the venue for their fixture with Open University Primes (effectively playing the week 9 fixture) and were well rewarded with their trip to Walton Hall, returning home with a convincing 9-1 victory. Primes sole success came from a hard fought 5-game win from Andy Tan against Shrishlal Basant Rai. Hat-tricks again for Darren Ward and Adebola Odetayo, whose successes have shot them to deserved top spots in the individual averages. Patrick Wong and James Zeng were the other Prime players on duty.
Match on the week came on Friday at Wing with home lads Leighton Buzzard Generations putting in a great all-round performance to beat Greenleys Glory 6-4. Tim Cheek, Antonina Bohach and super-sub Mateusz Browarnik (playing up from Div 1) took a brace each with Tim coming from 2 games down in the final set to clinch the match at 18-16 in the decider against Saish Prabhu. Only a brace this time from Ian Mead (lost to Antonina) with one from Saish plus the doubles. Ian Brown was the other Glory boy.
Only 3 matches this week as the clash between MK Spinners and Greenleys Monarchs was called off late in the day by Monarchs, apparently unable to raise a team.
Player of the week : Craig Brown