Match report for 10th vs Edenvale on 5 May.
1. Gabrielle won 3-0
2. Doran won 3-0
3. Roger won 3-1
4. Phil Piper won 3-0
Result 16-1 win.
Rgdr Roger
Final result :16 - 1
8th league “B” vs. Wits
Herewith the match report for the Chambers 8B versus Wits 8A game;
We travelled to Wits to take on the much vaunted Wits A side (the Chamber A teams only loss to date). So it is with great pride that I can report that we had a very convincing win, and only one game (15-17 fifth game loss by Digby) separating us from a full 16 point haul.
First on was Digby, playing at No 3, against Roy the wily Wits campaigner. A ding dong battle with Digby losing a very close 5th. Nevertheless an entertaining game.
Next on was captain Fillmore who proceeded to deliver his best performance of the season (not counting the hiding he handed out to George Bowen in an early season game). He was looking very tired after losing the 4th, but upped his game to take the 5th in convincing style, winning 3-2.
So all square at 5 apiece. Le Roux on next a No 4, knowing that he could take the pressure off Vermaak if he had a good win. The team player that he is, he proceeded to clean up his opponent with a solid 3-0 win.
On last were the No 1’s, Graham against an up-and-coming young student. Graham was never really in trouble. Although he dropped the 2nd game, he played well and was a comfortable 3-1 winner.
Final Result: 14-6
So after an excellent performance on the court, we moved on to Gino’s and enjoyed and a few good pizzas and beers.
Kind regards
Peter
Match result : 14 - 6
8th League “A” vs. JCC
What a lot of lolly Johannesburg Country Club has. Great lighting, well painted squash courts and under floor heating; but wait, with the renovations that the Chamber are undertaking, CCJ beware!
The upper-class (they somehow just looked more posh and classy!) yuppies tried, but failed and were thrashed by a far superior team; no, not the England soccer team; but the 8th league Chamber A squash side. The Greek, who appears to be the only one that has money (your country needs you!) graced the boards first. On for a 3 egg win and oops Nic fluffed the third obviously saving himself for the last and went on to win 3-1. An abundance of courts allowed parallel matches and Gary acted his way to a workman like 3-0 win. Mike followed and eased the first, not breaking sweat, oozed arrogance that went to his head and found himself 2-1 down. Spurred on by encourager Gary, he pulled level and attempted to motivate himself to win for the team! Last game, evens to 5, then Mike 5-10 down, then 9-13 down. “Oh no!” plus some other unprintable, epithets from the other doctor, Lyal, whispering George and the rest of the team save Paul who was grinding out a five setter win, were heard from the gallery. Mike, too scared to come off court with a loss, used his ample years of experience (it turned out that he had been playing squash longer than the number of years his opponent Mark had been on the planet) won the next point, got to 10, still serving got to 11………. to cut a long story short…… went on to win 15-13. A superb win from this weeks MVP and a second 16 pointer in a row for the team. An extremely successful and enjoyable evening was rounded off in the well appointed, but hellish expensive drinks-wise, bar.
The team finds itself 10 points in front of the second place team Old Eds. Two tough matches follow in consecutive weeks, Edenvale (without this week’s MVP) and old Eds. The depth of talent, as can be seen in the picture, including Stephan will hopefully come to the fore and thus continue their winning streak.
The triumphant team that beat Johannesburg Country Club. L to R: Nic, Paul, Mike, Lyal, George, Gary
Squash Tip of the Week
Never give up till the fat lady sings or in Chamber 8th league terms; the grey, fat man sings!
#1: Paul vs. Someone, 3-2: 15-8 13-15 15-9 11-15 15-8
#2: Nic vs. Marc, 3-1: 15-13 15-9 8-15 15-12
#3: Michael vs. Mark: 3-2: 15-10 12-15 11-15 15-11 15-13
#4: Gary vs. John: 3-0: 15-9 15-7 15-10
Match score: 16 - 5
7th League vs. Wits
Thought I had a full team organized, but fate intervened in the form of a hockey ball and a slave driving boss. Phil Alves managed to save a certain goal in his friendly hockey game over the weekend by diverting the balls flight with the immensity of his noggin. Although the game was won, he has 8 stitches for his trouble. It’s this kind of dedication to his sport that we want to see brought back to the Chamber courts. And Mark was whisked off to a business meeting in some confidential location at short notice. Current speculation is that he is being plied with cognac, cigars and a harem of women. With a bit of help from Lyal though, a team was raised at the 11th hour.
No.2 Brennan vs Dhiren: Fresh back from the volcanically charged flight paths of Finland and with a lurgy caught en route, though not the dreaded SARS and Brennan was shoved into the second spot. This was more out of spite though – Brennan has one of the first iPads in the country and has to test run it for demo purposes. So he had to be punished and took the court first. It was a bit of a ho-hum game in the first – some god shots mixed up with some bad. The bad shots won out and he went down. The second game was much the same with his flu bug starting to affect his game and mistakes were made where they shouldn’t have been. Third game followed suit and it was a tough start for the team. 0-3
No. 4 Lyal vs Jonathan: Lyal promised an exhibition of his new ’magic’ shot during the game. This immediately had the rest of us pretty worried. Lyal’s opponent was a lanky looking lad with an air of fitness about him. This was no pressure for our Lyal ‘cause he’s been known to teach Billy Banks a thing or two about fitness. And this was proved as he got a come from behind victory in the first. Still no sign of this magic shot though. It wasn’t needed in any case and Lyal took the second by a mile (15-13). Next game went badly for our boy and he needed a pick-up. Didn’t get it in the fourth, despite a spirited fightback from 0-8 down. Alas, it was not to be. The magic was gone and Lanky Jonno used all of his height to his advantage and played some tight shots to finish off an entertaining match.
No. 3 Tom vs Moneeb: Pressure was now on and Moneeb looked fit and handy with the racquet. This proved to be the case and the first couple of games were fast and ferocious. Tom fought hard and played some sharp shots, but gave away too many points at the back end of the games. The third game was our last chance at retrieving the evening. But Moneeb was on form and sealed it for Wits in style.
No. 1 Bruce vs Steven: Old man Bruce was still fighting off a niggling back strain and only agreed to play because we were short of players. The first game was inauspicious and there were more errors than we’ve come to expect from him. In the second game he came alive – the length, boast and drops were all precision engineered. The accountant in him came through and embellishments were axed in favour of efficiency. In short, he played a great game. As much as Bruce shone in the second game, his opponent did likewise in the third. It was t1t-for-tat and Bruce wasn’t going to be the t1t. He bounced right back in the fourth to set up a grand finale. Bruce’s stats show that 60% of his games are five setters. In this one his oppo pipped him despite Bruce running after them two yellow dots in earnest.
Ouch. A whitewash for the 7ths. Not our best evening and hopefully we can turn it around on the return leg. We’ll blame this loss on the ‘funny’ courts at Wits that put us off our collective games. The remainder of the first half of the season is unlikely to be any easier though with the two top teams on the table still to be played.
Summary
1. Bruce lost 2-3: 11-15; 15-8; 8-15; 15-7; 10-15
2. Brennan lost 0-3: 12-15; 12-15; 9-15
3. Tom lost 0-3: 10-15; 10-15; 11-15
4. Lyal lost 2-3: 15-13; 15-13; 8-15; 12-15; 8-15
Match score: 4 - 16
6thth League A vs Pirates
Good win for Chambers (12-6)
Court:1 Winner:Pirates PR03
MIKE,EMSLIE- vs. George,Palmer-
15-13 15-5 15-13
“Tiny” G just couldn’t get into the game and should have nailed the first and 3rd game, but alas it was not to be………
Court:2 Winner:Chamber Exiles CH04
John,Shannon- vs. Graham,GORDON-
15-12 16-18 15-11 12-15 15-11
Foxy still digesting the pork pie from his UK trip and could have done it in 3 but only catching a bit of a wake up in the last against a f#$^$ determined Ginger.
Court:3 Winner:Chamber Exiles CH04
Gerhard,Botha- vs. Anthony,ILLING-
9-15 15-13 15-6 15-8
All it took was a change in game plan tactics after being 1 game down…..from hard hitting to softly, softly. Anthony is still waiting for the ball at the back!!!
Court:4 Winner:Chamber Exiles CH04
Stuart,Vey- vs. Stephan,Beal-
15-13 15-10 15-9
Stu playing last “I don’t have to win, hey?” mmmmm Yes Stu it is 6 all….and what a champ (leaving his skirt at home for the night) pulling off a 3 zip win, chasing every ball like a Pirate chasing a stash of gold!!!
Finished off with Hamburgers and beer at the club.
Ciao
The Scribe
5thth League vs Winchester
5th League travelled south to Winchester.
First on was CvH at number 1 against Neil Buckle who had been brought out of retirement. After a close first game, Neil hurt his hamstring in the second and it was plain sailing from there for a 3-0 win
Next up at No.3 was Gavin who had to play Hans Mordt! Despite a valiant effort from Gavin, Hans was too strong for Gavin and won 3-0.
Next on at No.4 was Richard against Albert Lumley, who I thought was too strong for a No.4 in 5th league. However, the “long arm of Richard” put Albert under pressure, and by the third Albert’s legs (knees) were no good and Richard secured a good win 3-0.
Last on was Flip who needed a game against Alan Eve to secure the win. First was close , but Alan won 15-12. Second was as close, with Flip getting to 12-10 up, but losing 15-12! Slight panic amongst the Chamber team, but fortunately Alan had worked hard, and Flip managed to win the next three games to secure the win.
Result 3-1, 12-5. Winchester retired to Ginos, but the hard working Chamber Exiles made their satisfied way back north. Always nice to beat Winchester, especially at Winchester
Match result : 12 – 5
4th LEAGUE vs Randburg
4th vs Randburg
It was like a Master’s game. Chamber brought 4 Master’s players who play at Randburg every Thursday, Randburg brought only 2. Sneaked a couple of youngsters in.
Ryan played first against Roy Plumstead. Was a close match with the master teaching the youngster what happens if you don’t play tight. In the 5th, Ryan ran back for a shot placed in the left back corner, tripped and hit his face on the back wall. Luckily Sven was the marker who started his stop watch and gave Ryan the full 5 minutes allowed to recover. We weren’t sure he was going to continue. Ryan played great squash until the fuzziness cleared in his head but managed to hang on and win 15-13.
Gary played next against Eugene. Gary made hard work of it and only won in 5.
Phil then played against Sven and although the first was close, Phil was never really in the match and Sven won 3-0.
Vevek played last against Ryan Cooper. Vevek started strong and managed to go 2-0 up, but then looked a bit tired and Ryan clawed back. Ryan won the 3rd and looked like he was going to win the 4th. Vevek came back from 12-14 down to win the 4th.
Jeff chose to sit out but came down to support and was the team coach – gave all the players good advice between the games.
1) Gary 3-2
2) Phil 0-3
3) Vevek 3-1
4) Ryan 3-2
Jeff chose to sit out but came down to support and was the team coach – gave all the players good advice between the games.
Match result : 12 - 8
2nd LEAGUE vs Bryanston
Francis: won 3-1
Mwansa: won 3-2
Stanley: won 3-0
Mike lost 2-3
Match Result: 14-6
Ladies 4th LEAGUE 02 vs Randburg
Alma lost 0-3
Pat won 3-0
Belinda won 3-0
Chrisna won 3-0
Overall result:12-3
Ladies 3rd LEAGUE 01 vs Pirates (Or Pirates Old Girls vs Pirates)
Joanne won 3-1
Audrey won 3-1
Josephine lost 0-3
Julie won 3-1
Overall result: 12 - 6
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