Beyond Chutzpah: Match report: Beaconsfield 1 vs. Tring 1 – May 20th

Skipper Timbo writes:

It’s all about FOCUS!
This was a keenly anticipated fixture with recent Tring defector James Walton returning with his new friends to do battle.

Proceedings got underway with Stan taking on Mr Walton in the expletive-laden slugfest that we’d all been looking forward to.

Stan was a bit on-edge to begin with, but once he found his mojo he won it fair and square. Good result. 3-1

Then I played Paul from Tring, a professional tennis coach apparently. I was still on the M25 for the first game and made some silly mistakes to lose it 4-11. Then focus returned to turn the game around – next games going 11-9, 11-9, 11-1. A solid 3-1. Thanks also to Ches for marking – ‘you should only need to do the first game, Dan will be here in a minute’.

Trevor then played their other James (much younger, better looking) for a very frisky match. Trev just nipped the first game 12-10 before assuming more control in the second 11-6. His brain then went briefly in search of the bar to concede the third game 11-3 – before regaining focus to take the fourth 11-7. Good work. 3-1

Finally Dan went on against their #1 Ross, who had the most thumping forehand drive seen in these parts for a long time. He whacked his way to victory in the first two games before Dan began to mix it up a bit with some tasty drops and a corkscrew or to, but unfortunately it was not enough to claw things back. 0-3

The doubles panto then arrived. I didn’t see Dan and Trevor’s game, but it was 0-2. Meanwhile on the other court Stan and I were at 1-1 before Walton felled me with a reverse kidney punch. This didn’t help and we limped to a 1-2 defeat.

So the final result was a 10-10 draw. 
Body armour will be worn for the return visit...