
This week saw a lot of close matches across the morning and evening fixtures. With a cool hall and warm rallies in our climate-controlled comfort and despite the cooler conditions the standard didn’t drop one little bit.
Tuesday Evening Fixtures saw some close matches.
Division 1: London (Barry Patterson, Trent Day, Syed Hossain) def Athens (Mick Ruhl, Vince Boeske, Geoff Denman) 7-4 with Mick and Trent battling to the end, Mick won 11-6 in 5th Set. Paris (Steve Whiting, Josh Brown, Anne Sheridan) def St. Louis (Emma Widdup, Lily Boland, Neil Brown) 6-5, Josh defeated Lily in a tight match that could have gone either way,12-10 in the 5th Set.
Division 2: Amsterdam (Janice Kent, Graham Brake, Duncan Treloar) def Antwerp (Andrea Nicholson, Danial Warfield, Yilin Jiang) 9-2. Duncan come back from 2 sets down to win against Yilin in the 5th Set, 11-4. Los Angeles (Mark Sleeman, Allan Edwards) def Stockholm (Donna Abbott, Will VanDeKaa) 4-1. Both teams were missing a player so they were 2 on 2. Will beat Mark 11-9 in the 5th Set.
Division 3: Rome (Ian McKay, Matt West, Peter Goodson) def Berlin (Simon Hogan, Noreen Frederickson, Mark Stam) 7-4 with Noreen won great 5 Set match against Peter 11-9. Melbourne (Ollie Hamelink, Delma Knight, John McGee) def Helsinki (George Camilleri, Darryl Ross, Dilini Ranasinghe) 7-4. Ollie won a very close 5 Set match against George 12-10.
Division 4: Tokyo (Rachel Fiesta, Nate Clark, Kirsten Edwards) def Montreal (Melanie Theodore, Craig VanDeKaa, Jeric Engay) 6-5, Rachel won close 5 Sets against Craig 11-5. Mexico City (Tiffany Camilleri, Dylan Ringwood, Archel Cruz) def Seoul (Ricky Zhan, David Symons, Regina Wulf) 7-4 with Tiffany winning close battle against Ricky 11-9 in the 5th Set. Munich (Liz Burton, Rod Hamelink, Amanda Liu) def Moscow (Logan Brown, Jeff Bennington, Mohmout Ahmed) 7-4 with no 5 set matches there were some great 4 setters.
Tuesday Morning Fixtures
Division 1: Nano Nets (Donna Abbott, John McGee, Peter Goodson) def Byte Bouncers (Andrea Nicholson, Branko Vucurovic, Veronica Needham) 8-4. Donna won over Andrea 11-6 in 5th Set. Code Crackers (Doug Dungavell, Darryl Ross, Delma Knight) def Pixal Paddles (George Camilleri, Judy Zahn, Kevin Abbott) 8-4, with George came back from 2 sets down to win 11-8 in the 5th Set.
Division 2: Tokyo Turners (Kim Daffy, John Hamelink, Sally Muir) def Paris Spinners (Ian Dodds, Robyn Bushell, Val Austin) 8-4. Val and Kim battled to the death with Val coming out on top 12-10 in the 5th Set. London Loopers (Bryan Marshall, Louise Gould, Pam Keune) drew with Sydney Slammers (Josie, Davis, Frank Caruana, Ken Best) 6-6 with Josie digging deep to outlast Pam 11-7 in 5th Set.
Division 3: Rocket Stars (Madge Saunders, David Muir, Trish Zamparutti) drew 6-6 with Mars Pioneers (Allison Day, Thelma Caruana, Kim Challendar) with Allison completed a 5 Set comeback over Trish 11-4. Lunar Legends (Coral Morgan, Laurie Bradshaw, Janelle Keune) drew 6-6 against Solar Comets (Sharon Muller, Gerry Synnott, Glenda Dutton) with Coral coming back from 2-1 down to win in close 5 Set match against Gerry 11-7.
Contributed with thanks to Andrea Nicholson.

