Match Reports

DTH Redlands Tarr Babies Roman Rosser was crowned Cadet Singles Champion on the first of the League’s two Championships Finals Nights held at Stanley Street Club. Rosser was up against fellow Division Three player Michael Candy and in a tight first game it was Rosser who managed to pinch it 12-10 to take a 1-0 lead. Rosser then upped his game and took an early lead in the next game, a lead he never let slop and he eventually took the game 11-5. The third game saw a repeat of the second with Rosser playing some good attacking table tennis to take it 11-5 and with it the Cadet Singles title.
The final of the Division Two Doubles looked on paper to be an intriguing contest and so it proved to be as Nigel Stent & Pete Hodgson were up against Rob Vaughan & Steve Elkin. Stent & Hodgson…full report »

DTH Redlands Roosters are on the brink of retaining their Division One title after beating one of their closest rivals DTH Redlands Monsters 8-2. Tom McIntosh made a welcome return for the Roosters after deciding to stop playing altogether earlier in the season and despite not playing in over three months he still managed to beat all three of the Riauba brothers who make up the Monsters team. McIntosh defeated both Martynas and Valentinas in straight sets before coming from 2-1 down to beat Orestas 3-2 to complete his hat trick. Ernest Mpundu also won all his three singles games before teaming up with McIntosh to also win the doubles against Valentinas and Orestas. Steve Fox completed the scoring for the Roosters when he registered his one and only win on the night when he beat Martynas. The in leaves the Roosters just one win away from clinching their third…full report »

Despite the winter weather descending on Worksop most of the scheduled Divisional Cop matches went ahead this week. The only casualties because of the weather were a couple of games at Redlands due to the heating packing up but with some temporary heating brought in a couple of the games went ahead.
There were two extremely close matches this week with both been won by just 2 points! In the David Hooton Handicap Trophy for Division One sides Worksop Miners Welfare and Stanley Street ‘A’ had a right old tussle. Worksop Welfare started with 93 handicap points and Stanley Street with 198 points leaving the Welfare side with work to do. They set about their task with Richard Element beating Alex Millward 42-19 which immediately reduced the 105-point deficit down to 82. Mark Stanfield then beat Dave Hodgkin with Element and Dave Marsh then teaming up to beat Hodgkin…full report »

DTH Redlands Demolition Men’s Division Three title aspirations were wrecked this week after slipping to the narrowest of defeats against Worksop Welfare Harriers ‘B’ for whom Graham Stent performed heroically to win all his three singles games. Stent’s hat trick of wins all came in 5 sets and what made his achievement even more remarkable is that he did all this at the age of 80! Stent first beat Bob Atkinson and then Perry Bradford but saved the best till last, with the match score at 5-4 to the Harriers Stent came from 2-0 down against Derek Piper to win the next three games to clinch the win and all three points for the Harriers. Stent was well supported by the much-improved Dean Marsh who beat both Atkinson and Piper and had a hand in the doubles win over the same two players as he teamed up with Neil Fisher…full report »

Worksop Welfare Snipers got their Division Two Reg Wilcox Handicap Trophy campaign off to a great start this week after having to give a big start to Sparken Hill Blue Jays of 203 handicap points. Clawing back such a large deficit was even more remarkable when considering that after the first three games of the match the Snipers had only managed to reduce the deficit by a mere 53 points and a Snipers win looked very doubtful. The Snipers trio of Tony Swain, Erlands Skels and Jim Westwood stuck to their task and turned up the pressure and started to dominate the match making inroads to the remaining 150 points that they were behind and in the end won they managed to eventually win the match by 6 points, 472 points to 466.
The result could have been a lot different, in the very first match of the night…full report »