A rocky start, on arrival a rival team from the Rugby league were on our courts claiming 2 of them. Some back and forth, emails checked and leisure centre muscle brought in. The courts were ours but started 15 min late. Fortunately knowing Hinckley they let us play on until after time which was helpful. Twice now LM1 playing for time. Last minute switch up of the team as it was identified that they've strengthened so Chris and Dan played, the usual Shaz and Ian and Phil and Alex.
Ian and Shaz all games taken in 2, no problem. Shaz and Ian played some Consistent Reliable Attacking Play to good effect. Dan and Chris an initial wobble but then found their groove all rubbers taken, no sweat.
Dan and Chris have had many weeks of Specialised High Intensity Training that seemed to come together to allow them to dominate. Alex and Phil coming in. Phil trying his luck post injury, Alex coming back from covid. Unfortunately no rubbers for us but took their best pair to 3. Both feeling that it could and should have been better if both were 100%. 6-3 to Trinity, another win and step towards that promotion. Well done team, nicely playedđ»
LM1 Captain Phil
We made a great start with Hitesh & Ruth as 1st pair beating their 1stâs, then Tracey & Tabs beating their 2ndâs. We were 2-0 up and buzzing!! Unfortunately, we lost both the next 2 games, with neither pair being able to cope with the change of style. Now itâs 2-2! Hitesh & Tracey won their split match. It made all the difference playing mixed rather than levels. Ruth &Tabs made a great effort taking their split to 3 games, but just couldnât quite take the final game. So a 3-3 result, but we are still really pleased
RB3 Captain Tracey
Itâs a must win for RB2 considering the previous draw to stay in the competition resulted in a nice 5-1 win over st. Philips 3 last Tuesday. Sam & Kiranam has started the game as first pair with st. Philips best pair with some good long rallies but few unforced errors costed the rubber nearly missed the win is the only loss for the match. Itâs a tactical move which has worked out perfectly for our first pair in their second game. Dan has been brought into pair with Ben as second pair has easily finished the rubber not even giving 5 points each game.
They continued their fantastic performance with st. Philips stronger pair with some very good smashes & net shots has easily got us 3 rubbers at half stage. We need one more rubber before the splits and we got both rubbers brought us 5-1 win over st. Philips 3. We will play the same team next week, in return leg and Iâm sure they will make definite changes to give us tough fight. Keep you all posted on the resultsđ
RM2 Captain Kiranam