Match Reports

This week's focus in the Worksop & District Table Tennis League turned to the 2nd of the Annual Championship Final's nights where Richard Wesley was looking to defend two of his titles he won last year. First up was the Open Doubles which he won last year with brother Tom and again the two Wesley brothers had teamed up again to reach the final. They were up against surprise package in Andy Lee and Peter Cowburn who had teamed up at the last minute but despite this they had fought their way to the final with some early impressive results but there were to be no surprises on the night as Richard and Tom Wesley defeated Lee and Cowburn 3-1 to successfully defend their title.
Next up for Richard Wesley was the Open Singles final were his opponent was Chris Cattell who gave Wesley a massive scare after taking a…full report »

Stanley Street 'A' have made an immediate return to the top Division after clinching the Division Two title with a thumping 9-1 win against Ryton Park Eagles. Yet again Peter Eyre returned another impressive maximum and with Paul Linfield hitting form to also register a hat trick the result was never in doubt. Eyre and Linfield were well supported by Alex Millward who won two before losing out to John Hall. Millward and Linfield then teamed up to take the doubles to cement Stanley Streets 19th league win out of 19 games this season along with honour of being crowned Division Two Champions.
If the fight at the top of Division Two has now been decided the same cannot be same for the battle at the bottom between DTH Redlands Morris Men and Manton Sports. The Morris Men managed to haul themselves off the bottom with a win against a…full report »

Both Steve Lyon and Tom Mcintosh claimed two individual titles each at the first of the League's Annual Championship Nights. First up in the order of play was the Cadet Final between Tom McIntosh and his brother Kyle who was hoping to defend the title he won last year and despite  taking the first game in the best of 5 contest it was his brother Tom who managed to win the next three games to clinch the title for the first time. In the Boys U12 Final Tom was attempting to defend his title and  had things a little more his own way with a straight sets victory over Lewis Comley who had done well to reach the final with Tom finally winning 11-7, 11-5, 11-1.
Steve Lyon also qualified for two finals with the first one being against Dave Capewell in the Over 60's and the Global Marble player…full report »

Division Two side Stanley Street 'A' have all but secured the Division Two title and with it a return to the top division at the first time of asking. Despite only being able to field two players in their match with Manton Sports they still had too much fire power for a spirited Manton side. Peter Eyre did what he's done in every league match this season and won all his three games and he was joined by Paul Linfield who also remained unbeaten although he did need 5 sets to defeat Keith Smith. Both Eyre and Linfield eased past the other Sports players in John McClellan and Phil Fisher without any trouble and then teamed up in the doubles to beat Smith and Fisher in straight sets to win the match 7-3. This result  now means that they would have to lose all their remaining 3 matches and second…full report »

DTH Redlands Fluffy Toys have been crowned Division One champions for the fourth season in a row after defeating club colleagues DTH Redlands Roosters. The Toys Steve Walker has captained his team fabulously this season having to work around injury to the current Open Singles Champion  Richard Wesley for several weeks but despite the setbacks the Redlands outfit have had another successful season. They clinched the title with yet another hat trick from Richard Wesley and with Walker adding two wins and one from Tom Wesley the three points they needed to clinch the title never looked in doubt despite resistance from the Roosters Sarah Short. Short played superbly to beat both Walker and Tom Wesley and despite Phil Beresford also beating Tom Wesley it wasn't enough to stop the Toys running out 7-3 winners and making it seven years in succession that a team from Redlands has won the…full report »