Colston Ladies v Norham Gardens, Saturday March 29th

Mar 31,2014 Comments Off By admin

The last match of the winter league has been played under the sunshine at Colston, roll on the summer and more sunny afternoons….

We played against Norham Gardens who are competing for top of the league with Haddenham.

We started with full enthusiam brought on by the sun and Carol and Charlotte played their first pair who may have been of more mature years but had the match experience that goes with it…..

Carol and Charlotte did well to come back to 3-6 coming from 0-5 down in the first set, but lost the second set quickly to 0-6.

Meanwhile Anna & myself were having an epic first set after letting their second pair get back to a tie break when we were 4-1 up and I think we lost a bit of concentration. Disappointingly for us they sneaked the tie break so we lost the first set 6-7. After a little talk with ourselves and determined not to let the second set go the same way we found ourselves 4-1 up again and this time the combination of Anna’s deep forehands and my successful volleying we made sure we took the set 6-2.

The others had now had 30 minutes break so were straight up for the next round of matches.

Carol and Charlotte played some great tennis , but one of the ladies was very tall and managed to get back a lot of normally winning wide shots! They put up a good fight but lost 2-6, 2-6.

Anna and myself took on the experienced first pair and struggled to make an impact on them or find a winning tactic and the first set was over to quickly 1-6. We continued to try to make an impression on them with little success and the net cord was also against us on several occasions. So they finally took the second set 3-6.

So a disappointing 1-7 defeat overall.

The tea was usual Colston standard of very high( of course!!) and a lovely cheesecake from Carol with the help of Mary Berry seemed to ease the disappointment of losing.

One of their ladies was quite comfortable and didn’t want to go home!

As ever they were very complimentary of the courts and setting as their courts are situated in the middle of Summertown and owned but not very well maintained by the council. So we may of lost on court to day, but playing in the sunshine at Colston is always pleasure and talking to other clubs makes me realise how lucky we are to have a beautiful place to play, even if it is a bit rustic and we have to share the clubhouse with the local mice!!!

I think we will have finished 5th or 6th out of 13 teams so a very solid season and well played everyone win or lose I hope you have enjoyed playing.

Last note those who haven’t got back to me on the summer league dates, the deadline to be included is next weekend and we also have a friendly against Lechlade next Saturday 1.30pm start, so if you available to play let me know asap.

Hope to see you all on the courts very soon.

Emma

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