Date: Saturday 15th May
Venue: Away - 2.30pm start
Meet at Arch at 12.20pm. Get changed at break.
Please order a packed lunch. Remember sun-tan lotion, hats, water etc
Return approx 6.15pm
Team:
A Patel (capt) 3 packed lunches for staff please
R Cordingly
C Graham
E Sharples
N Ashurova
K Benn
Result: Repton 4: Oakham 5
Match Report:
Patel/ Cordingly: 6-3, 2-6, 6-1
Graham/ Benn: 1-6, 3-6, 2-6
Sharples/McIntosh: 6-5, 6-5, 3-6
This was such a close match as indicated by the scores above and we were incredibly unfortunate not to have walked away with a victory. That said, we all seemed to suffer from a case of the ‘I can’t do its’ against their first pair. Had we dug deep and believed in ourselves more, I am confident we could have got at least one win against them. We played some good attacking tennis but it came down to unforced errors in the end, and unfortunately for us, Oakham made fewer mistakes than we did. Furthermore, we hit far too many double faults which were effectively free points for our opponents. This was a good performance from the Under 15’s but a little disappointing since on paper we were the better team. A little extra serving practice will now be on the cards in preparation for Kimbolton next week. NMO
Posted on
Sat, May 15, 2010
by Repton School