Mixed Matches – August round up

Crowthorne Mixed 1 leads Division 3B after 3 rounds with two wins and a losing draw.   At the end of July, Matt Paxton and Tina Stern led the way to a 3-1 win away against Wargrave 2.  Paxton & Stern won 6-2 6-1 against Clare Belton & Paul Mcdonald and followed this with a 6-1 6-3 win against Elizabeth Hindley & Tony Rudelhoff.  Jenny Sheppard & Mark Callaghan had a 6-4 6-3 win against Hindley & Rudelhoff but lost 1 and 2 to the Wargrave number 1 pair.  At the beginning of August,  the team were unlucky to come away from Caversham Park with just one point, having finished all square on rubbers, sets and games only to lose the deciding shootout from 8-3 up.  Andy Sayer & Emma Knowles had straight set wins in both of their matches, 6-4 6-2 against Logan Turner & Judy King and 6-3 6-0 against Howard Willis & Esther Rodriguez.  However, although Lorraine Fowler & Mark Lardner battled hard against Rodriguez & Willis, they lost 4-6 5-7 and they found Turner & King a much harder proposition, losing 1 and 0.  On 1st September, the team faced Sonning 1 at home and, although the final result was a 3-1 win for the Crows, the first round was a battle for both pairs.  Matt Paxton & Emma Knowles won a long three-setter against Tim Armitage & Catherine Botwright, taking the first set 7-6 on a tie-break, losing the second 2-6 but recovering to take the third 7-5.  Meanwhile, Richard McCully & Tina Stern had a perfect start taking the first set 6-0 against Cameron & Sheila Scott but they had to fight in the second to win it 7-6 on a tie-break.  Paxton & Knowles made sure of the three points winning 6-4 6-0 against the Scotts while McCully & Stern went down 3-6 1-6 to Armitage & Botwright in a rubber that didn’t matter.

Crowthorne Mixed 2 have had a tough start to the season, losing their first two matches, against Home Park and Bradfield, 0-4.  However, in their latest match, away against Berkshire County Sports 2, they got their first win, 3-1, and by quite a margin.  Mark Callaghan & Ravinder Norman started with an excellent 6-2 6-4 win over John Mcdonald & Sarah Quant and followed it up with a 1 and 0 win against John Dunford & Sue Beasley.  Peter Lindholm & Pauline Snell had already put Dunford & Beasley to the sword 6-2 6-0 in the first round so their 2 and 1 losss to Mcdonald & Quant in the second was irrelevant.

Crowthorne Mixed 3 have also had a difficult start, losing 0-4 against Windsor 3 and 1-3 against Slough 2,  so their latest 3-1 win,  away against Sonning 2, came as a relief.  However, the 0-4 final score against Windsor hides an extraordinary match with four tie-breaks, all of which were unfortunately lost by the Crows side.  Andrew Lewis & Jenny Partridge lost 0-6 6-4 6-7 against the Sonning first pair, Peter Buck & Liz Bojarczuk, nearly a great comeback after a poor start.  Andrew Morrison & Penny Hemingway lost 1-6 1-6 against Pierre Fourie & Lesley Small, never really being in contention, but they bounced back well, pushing Buck & Bojarczuk all the way, but losing 3-6 6-2 6-7.  Meanwhile, Lewis & Partridge were losing their second rubber 6-2 6-7 6-7 against Fourie & Small.  Against Sonning 2, Jenny Partridge teamed up with Andrew Morrison and they won against Jenny Taylor & Brian Scott 3-6 6-4 6-0.  Linda Diessner & Nathan Osborn lost 1-6 3-6 against Linda Burton & Matthew Bayliss-Binks but both Crows pairs won their matches in the second round, Diessner & Osborn 7-5 6-7 6-4 against Taylor & Scott and Partridge & Morrison 6-4 6-1 against Burton & Bayliss-Binks, to make it a hard won 3-1 win for the Crows!  So a win at last for Mixed 3 and good to see a number of new faces in the teams.

To see the current league positions, click on the following links…

Crowthorne 1     Crowthorne 2     Crowthorne 3

Places must be booked in advance via the Members’ Area and selections will then be confirmed on the morning or evening before the event.  Please do not turn up if you have not been selected as you will be turned away. Players are selected on a first come first serve basis usually in multiples of 4 players.  Note that none of these sessions is suitable for beginners.

  • Note that the Committee tries to accommodate the wishes of members, within the constraints of time and 4 courts, but a session for each ability level is the guiding principle.
    • The Friday session is for recreational and higher players and runs from 6pm to 8pm
    • The Thursday 5:30 session is for intermediate players and runs from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
    • The Thursday 7:30 session is for intermediate and advanced players including potential team players and runs from 7:30 to 9:30pm.
    • The Tuesday session is for advanced players and runs from 7pm to 9pm. 
    • In all cases you must commit to the full two hours.
  • Before the session you will have been told by the organiser your starting court, your partner and your opponents.
    • These will take into account each player’s normal playing standard with the best players starting on court 1 and, with 16 players, the least able players on court 4.  However, the organiser may occasionally decide to organise it differently such as a “lucky dip” for starting court & partner.
    • In addition, for the Thursday 7:30 session, the organiser will take into account any pairings for matches at the coming weekend.
  • Play is split into 3 rounds lasting 40 minutes each.  Play 1 set with normal deuce scoring.  If you finish early either carry on or mix in your 4.
    • If you haven’t finished the set after 40 minutes and the scores are level, play a sudden death point
  • At the end of the 40 minutes the winners of the first set played move up a court, the losers move down a court (court 1 is the top court). Winners on the top court stay, as do the losers on the bottom court. If you didn’t finish your set then the pair winning at the time moves up.
  • Pairs then split partners with the pair joining them and you play a second round.
    • Partners are selected by spinning rackets or using common sense to try to get a balanced 4.
  • Exactly the same happens for the third round.

Drop-In club nights are, as the name implies, more informal sessions than the bookable ones and you can arrive and leave when you like.  Those attending organise themselves, changing who plays with whom after most present have completed a set, although there’s often a more senior member present who  will take charge if needed.

We are currently running 2 Drop-In  sessions for all levels from Starter upwards…

  • The Tuesday session has recently been rebranded for All Levels and runs from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.  If you want to sit out and watch, maybe with a drink, you can do that too.  If you’ve arrived early for the 7 o’clock session, you’re also welcome to join in.
  • The Wednesday session is for all levels of player including beginner and usually runs from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.
    • You can expect members attending adult coaching to join in.
  • The Sunday session is for All levels and runs from 3:00 – 5:00pm.

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