Division 1 report


Secretaries Comment: In a match between CTTC 'A' and Winchcombe Royals that took place on 25 January the scorecard had Nick Mytton down as one of the players for the Royals and losing all three of his games. It recently came to light that this was an error and it was in fact Nick Davidson who participated in this match. I have therefore amended the averages accordingly. Nick Mytton blamed Dave Harvey for this error saying that he was a bit of a Knob! The secretary was somewhat surprised at this comment from Nick, but had to agree :)
 
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Cheltenham Table Tennis Club 'A'  (Dave Harvey, Rob Harvey, Mike Harvey) played Lakeside 'A' (Pete Wood, Roy Fowler, Rich Moores) this week in a match where the Lakesiders were clearly out of their depth and suffered a whitewash defeat. Only the Lakesiders Pete Wood and Rich Moores showed the slightest resistance each taking a game off Cheltenhams Rob Harvey before losing in four games. 
Cheltenham Table Tennis Club 'A'  10     (Dave Harvey, Rob Harvey, Mike Harvey)        Lakeside 'A'  0
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Winchcombe Royals (Duncan Arrandale, Keith Ferguson, Nick Davidson) played Chelsea Building Society (Bill Dawe, Guy Greening, Simon Moysey) this week in a good spirited match that commenced with an excellent game between the two shiny roundheads. To be fair Duncan quite looked the part whereas Bill's look was somewhat spoilt by the Bi-Focal glasses. Despite Bill looking vastly older than his age he continues to dominate against most teams and won all of his games with relative ease dropping just the one set to Nick Davidson. The Royals Nick Davidson reversed earlier season defeats beating Simon Moysey and additionally recorded his first ever win over Guy Greening in three straight albeit deuce games. The Royals only other point of the evening was a win for the shiny roundhead Duncan Arrandale over Simon Moysey.
 
Winchcombe Royals  3               Chelsea Building Society  7     (Bill Dawe)
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Cheltenham Table Tennis Club 'B'  (Dominic James, Martyn Reeves, Jon Atkinson) played Cirencester (Mike Kiff, Gordon Shaw, Rob Willsher) this week in a match where Cirencester risked playing Mike Kiff and were fortunate to squeak a narrow victory. In Mikes defence it must be quite challenging to play Table Tennis as there can not be much Oxygen to breath at that height. Cheltenhams four points were a team affair with each player winning one singles, surprising not all against Mike and then Dominic and Martyn combined for a good doubles win against Mike and Rob to secure their fourth point. Cirencesters Rob Willsher enjoyed a nice maximum supported by Gordon who won two losing to Cheltenhams Dominic James. Cirencesters Mike Kiff enjoyed one win against Dominic James who is probably Cheltenhams best player.
 
Cheltenham Table Tennis Club 'B'  4               Cirencester  6     (Rob Willsher)
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Lakeside 'B' (Andy East, Chris Ball, Ken Smith) played Chelsea Building Society (Dave Metcalfe, Guy Greening) this week in a match was spoilt partly due to Bill Dawe protecting his average leaving Chelsea a player short and then if that was not bad enough the rowdy Winchcombe Roamers were playing on the adjacent table. Despite these trying conditions the Chelsea managed to scrape a narrow victory with Guy Greening winning what is probably his first hatrick of the season supported by Dave Metcalfe who went racing up the averages by squeaking a couple of wins against Lakesides Chris Ball and Ken Smith, but was unable to overcome Andy East who won the only point for the Lakesiders. This was a good win for the Chelsea particularly considering the abuse they had to endure from the adjoining table with Nick Mytton throwing balls into our court when it looked like the Chelsea were going to win a rally and then that combined with Doug Payne with his constant verbal abuse made it an even sweeter victory.
 
Lakeside 'B'  4                     Chelsea Building Society  6     (Guy Greening)
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Lakeside 'B' (Andy East, Chris Ball, Ken Smith) played Winchcombe Roamers (Doug Payne, Matt Hartwell, Craig Norledge) in a match where the Roamers  Norledge to protect Nick Myttons average. This match proved to be rather expensive for the Roamers Craig Norledge as he reportedly said "if I do not beat Andy East three straight then I am buying the Beers", Craig did infact lose in five closely fought games and ended up buying the beers. That win for Andy East was the only singles victory for the Lakesiders, their only other point was from a good doubles win where Andy and Chris beat the Roamers Doug Payne and Craig Norledge which by my reckoning makes Craig Norlege the Roamers weak link! :)
 
Lakeside 'B'  2                    Winchcombe Roamers  8     (Doug Payne, Matt Hartwell)

 

Division 3 Report

Eagles earn dramatic draw

Tirley Tiger 5 Cleeve Eagles 5

Despite being one player short, Eagles were well  worth  a deserved  share of the spoils against second placed Tigers. Tiffany Hopton and Dan Crook gained two wins each for Eagles, and came back from two games down to snatch the doubles against Pete Humble and Janie Kirby 3-11, 5-11, 11-7, 11-7, 11-6.

No hiding place for Civil Service

Cheltenham J 9 (N Blake, R Godwin) Civil Service B 1

Civil Service B were shown no mercy by a rampaging Cheltenham J side, for whom Nick Blake and Ryan Godwin won three each. Rob Browning gained a solitary point for the losing side.

Leaders face player problem

Winchcombe Vikings 4 Civil Service A 5

Both teams were a player short, and it was Civil Service who felt the major impact, as they edged through to gain a narrow win. With player shortages for the rest of the season, they will have to rely on their B team for re-enforcements. Viking’s Mark Ozanne and Alan Gallop both beat Alan Thomas to put the pressure on, but two wins for Jonathan Nixon plus success in the doubles saw them home.

Cheltenham H consolidate third spot

Cheltenham K 0 Cheltenham H 10 (M Wells, K Ansley, J Ansley)

No joy here for the bottom side as they were swept aside by Cheltenham H, who look likely to finish the season in third place. Richard Comley almost overcame Matt Wells, and Tom Warner fought well against Kai Ansley, but in both cases to no avail.

Lady Luck deserts Cheltenham K

Cheltenham K 0 Cheltenham J 10 (M Inman, J Theyer)

Cheltenham K  were desperately unlucky to come away with nothing from this match after taking five of the ten sets to the deciding game. Richard Comley lost in the final game to both Matt Inman and Jamie Theyer, whilst Luke Greening suffered a similar fate to Jamie and also to Nick Blake. Max Kelly failed to compete in one set due to illness. Inevitably the doubles was another closely fought encounter, with Matt and Nick coming out on top 11-13, 11-3, 5-11, 11-5, 11-3.