Dulwich beat Sussex County 4-3 in a tight contest on a wet and blustery Thursday at Southwick. Many thanks to Sussex County for hosting.

We are therefore through to the final of this national team competition- the first time in the club’s history we have reached this stage.

Well done to all our players.

Results

Morning

Daphne Gaitley and Rex Davis (SCCC) beat Ed Dymock and David Collins (Dulwich) 7-4 7-5 Mark Ormerod (Dulwich) beat Jonathan Isaacs (SCCC) 7-5 6-7 7-6 David Gaitley (SCCC) beat Janette Pheathean (Dulwich) 7-4 7-1

Afternoon

Ed Dymock beat Daphne Gaitley 7-5 7-4
David Collins beat Rex Davis 7-4 7-5
Mark Ormerod beat Dabid Gaitley 7-5 6-7 7-4 Jonathan Isaacs beat Janette Pheathean 7-4 4-7 2-7

Also on July 24th Mark Ormerod, David Collins, Ed Dymock and Janette Pheathean travelled to Phyllis Court club on the banks of the Thames at Henley.

In a tight match Dulwich recovered after lunch from a 1-2 deficit to win 4-3, the final game to finish determining the outcome of the match.

Morning:

Ed Dymock(2) and David Collins(3) lost to TJ Johanson(3) and Chris Roberts(4) 4-7, 7-6, 3-7 Mark Ormerod(4) beat Raymond Wood(8) 7-6, 7-5.

Janette Pheathean(5) lost to Pam Mead(6) 4-7, 4-7.

Afternoon:

Ed Dymock beat TJ Johanson 7-5, 3-7, 7-3.

David Collins beat Chris Roberts 4-7, 7-5, 7-6.

Mark Ormerod beat Pam Mead 6-7, 7-2, 7-4.

Janette Pheathean lost to Raymond English 5-7, 6-7.

A very pleasant and peaceful setting by the river in the centre of Henley, and very hospitable hosts.

Dulwich go on to play Sussex County in the semi-final of this knockout competition.

The weekend of 3-4 July  consisted of a one day doubles tournament for the goblets followed by a singles tournament for the splendid bowl

The Burbage trophies

On Saturday four pairs contested the goblets.  Sally-Ann & Dawn had difficulty keeping up with the more experienced pairings who all registered the same number of match wins and games, leaving Simon  to resort to net points.  On this basis,  Simon and Paul Newton (7) followed  John Reddish and David Collins (8) who, in turn, were pipped at the post by Ed Dymock  and Gloria Watson (10).

Ed and Gloria win the Goblets

Sunday was another bright and sunny day with  Saturday’s personnel, except for Ken Watson (of the wounded knee) guesting in place of Sally-Ann. After six rounds David swept into a five-win lead from John and Simon (both 4) and was awarded the handsome trophy.

David receives the Bowl from Simon

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Woking and Dulwich both fielded strong teams. We had Pierre and Simon Carter with Ken Watson and Simon Whiteley as support. Their team comprised Jeff Dawson, Malcolm Bigg, Mike Town and Bernard Jones.

In the morning, Pierre and Simon C won their (best of three games) doubles match 2-0 and Ken went down to Mike Town 0-2. Simon W came back from 0-1 to win a close contest against Bernard Jones 2-1. Bernard showed excellent touch on an unfamiliar and fast lawn with fine positional shots but Simon responded with good long clearances and long hoops. This put Dulwich 2-1 up by lunchtime. After lunch Simon C beat  Malcolm Bigg 2-0 but Pierre was beaten 2-0 by Jeff Dawson, and Simon W lost by by the same score to Mike Town. So it was all riding on Ken’s match against Bernard Jones.

Ken lost the first game but took the second game on the 13th hoop. In the deciding game Ken built up a 5-1 lead with some excellent long hoops. Bernard held on with steady positional play to draw back to 6-4. He then took on a series of long clearances at hoop 11, until Ken was finally given a good shot at the hoop to win the third game 7-4. This gave Dulwich the rubber by 4 matches to 3.