Sunday Round Robin Competition
20 June 2010 It was a beautiful afternoon for tennis but entries were a bit disappointing. One division of 14 was awkward to manage as there is no easy format. It resulted in one pair sitting off each time. There was a 3 way tie for the winner between John Chaloner, Leonie Southwell and Rosemary Scrivener on 17 games, hotly pursued by four other players on 16 games. We are looking at introducing handicaps next tournament to prevent Leonie taking home the big prize 3 times in a row.
23 May 2010 - Gunning We were lucky to have a beautiful day for our match against the Gunning. Our hosts have a very attractive small club with four excellent synthetic courts. The Gunning Club catered very well for us with morning and afternoon tea and a most enjoyable day's tennis was had by all. After all players had played a minimum of 5 sets, there was a very close finish to our tally at day's end. Lyn Robbins on 29 games was a close winner from Adrian Rogers from the Gunning Club on 28 games.
The only disappointing aspect of the day was a very poor response from men players from Canberra seniors. This made it quite difficult to arrange the format of play for the day. If a greater interest by our male members is not shown in any future planned matches, it would be difficult to justify the effort involved in organising such visits.
16 May 2010 We had only the one division which was disappointing for such a beautiful day but there was some good tennis. Leonie Southwell finished strongly to with 29 games to pip Pat Moloney by one game after 5 sets of tennis. Bribes to play dead were offered but clearly not sufficient as no lame performances were noted. Leonie is featuring prominently on the winner's list so perhaps here's a challenge to some of our other regular players to topple her next R/R in June.
21 March 2010 On a warm and muggy morning, but ideal weather for tennis at the very pleasant Forrest Club, we had a good roll-up of players but with one small problem, an odd number of players. David Sprott called on one of his big fan club at Forrest and we were very happy to have Mohan Pridham join us to overcome that difficulty, but it meant a late start and fewer sets played than normal. We hope to see Mohan play with us again before too long
As usual, there was some hard fought matches in our two divisions. In the first division, there was a dead heat between Annette Cochrane and Colin Lyons on 23 games closely followed by David Sprott on 21. In the second group, Robert Pragt was victorious with 21 games, with Jocelyn Thompson only one game behind, while Mohan was only one game away from the runner-up prize.
There will not be a round robin tournament in April because of the Easter tournament, but we will be in action again on the 16 May at 9.30am, when we again hope for a healthy entry
21 February 2010 We had a very strong roll-up of 22 players for the first tournament of 2010, maybe something to do with the washout at Ulladulla. There were two divisions and both closely contested. While it was warm and muggy, most players found conditions agreeable. The First Division resulted in a tie between May Howard and a newcomer to our tournaments, Leonie Southwell on 26 games for the five sets played. The Second Division was won by John Mapley on 22 games (good to see John again after a long absence), closely followed by John Howard on 21 games. Jocelyn Thompson was only one game further back. It was clearly a good day for the Howard household
13 December 2009 We had an enjoyable tournament to finish the year, followed by a tasty lunch which Gail Jones capably organised and cooked. There was only the one section with David Sprott being the winner and Leo Geremia runner-up.
15 November 2009 In fairly oppressive conditions at Lyneham, there were two divisions and some good hard-fought tennis despite the heat. A number of players commented that some shade cover between courts would be greatly appreciated at this venue in the summer months. In division one the winner was David Sprott with 27 games and the runner-up Colin Lyons with 21 games. In division two, the winner was Charlie Modrak with 22 games with Gail Jones and Catherine McLaughlin joint runners-up with 19 games.
11 October 2009 There was a very good roll up with 22 starters. The tournament was played for the first time at the very attractive Forrest Club in fine and pleasant conditions. Members enjoyed some hard fought matches and the close results bore that out. It was great to see some new faces and some of our members who have not played for quite a while. It was clearly a very popular venue with excellent facilities and we hope to see big roll-ups like this more often. The winner in the first division was May Howard with 27 games followed by David Coutts and John Greenup on 25 games. In the second division Lyn Robbins won with 23 games closely followed by Gary Buchanan on 22 games.
13 September 2009 In fine but sometimes gusty weather we had an enjoyable September tournament with some hard fought sets and a couple of new faces who we hope to see along again soon. It was a little disappointing that we did not have quite enough players for 2 divisions. Ros Balodis joined us and it was no surprise that she was our winner on the day with 23 games. We threatened to make her play left handed next time! Runner-up was Colin Lyons on 20 games.
16 August 2009 Although the weather was very changeable there were enough players for two divisions. In the first division, the winner was Pat Moloney on 23 games very closely followed by May Howard on 22 games. In the 2nd division, the winner was Julie Burke on 18 games, followed by Don Tucker on 16 games.
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