John Loftus made his club debut at #5 and the first few points looked promising. However his opponent Norman sussed him out at this point and started teasing loose shots off the Irishman's racket and slotting away winners. John lost the first two for 3 or 4 points each. To be fair, he changed things up, started returning serve to a length, dictating a faster rhythm to the rallies and reeled off 6 points in the third. Norman was alive to this and re-imposed the slower pace and sure enough, normal service resumed and he finished for the loss of 6 points. 0-3.
Neil Love was boasting himself to death against Alastair at #4. Luckily Alastair wasn't looking in his rear-view mirrors to see Neil still dawdling in the back corner and would send the boast back to him. However Alastair would eventually finish the point. That was the first game down, I believe the other 2 went in similar fashion.
Andy Whitelaw played his usual tight shots against Alan Ramsay (ex-Waverley) at #2. Alan still has dead-reckoning drops from anywhere in the court and Andy was toiling to cover them.
A well-contested 0-3 loss.
Richard Nisbet at #3, I didn't see any of it, apart from finding out he too drew a blank.
Which left me at #1 against Titan East C Champion, David Legge, to avoid us getting completely whitewashed. I was soon down a game due to moving like a dreadnought and hitting like a pansy.
The second went point for point until the business end of the game, when that old Loob favourite, the unforced error, came into play. I was soon 0-8 down in the third and thought, "No", not a third week of being grannied in the last game... so either I dug in or Legge went walkabout, but I got back to 8-8. Set 1! Both of us had a few game points, then that old Loob fave came back to haunt... 0-3.
Overall, wait for it, ... 2-20. (Report: Looby)
2 comments:
That's an 0-18 in old money.
Dunny fae the Bar
Yep Dunny, that is the long and the short of it. We'll just have to see if we can improve the look of it on the return leg.
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