Ladies 3rd team vs Coombe Wood AWAY, Sunday 3 July 2011 (Surrey Summer League)
Ashford Team:
Leanne Evans and Ruth Dimes (1)
Margaret Newman and Jo Greenidge (2)
Coombe Wood Team:
Jan Holman and Heather Hood (1)
Nicki Tattersall and Wendy Seigal(2)
1v2 – 1-6 4-6 (Coombe Wood WIN)
1v1 – 1-6 2-6 (Coombe Wood WIN)
2v1 – 1-6 6-7 (Coombe Wood WIN)
2v2 – 2-6 6-7 (Coombe Wood WIN)
Ashford faced a different surface to their usual hard court with the team playing on artificial grass for the first time in many weeks. The day was quite hot and sunny to begin with and Margaret and Jo welcomed the shade on their court from some overhanging tree branches. As the day wore on, cloud cover provided some relief from the burning sun.
In their first match, Leanne and Ruth lost a marathon first game lasting well over 20 minutes with numerous deuces. Following games continued to have many deuces reflecting the closeness of play but unfortunately, Leanne and Ruth struggled to close out games on the unfamiliar surface going down 1-6. In the second set, Leanne and Ruth started very slowly and were down 0-4 but played well to catch up to be 4-5 before losing the set 4-6.
In Leanne and Ruth’s first set of their second match, they started slowly again and missed a lot of shots losing 1-6. In the second set, whilst they picked up and challenged the other team with better play, they eventually went down 2-6.
Jo and Margaret struggled their first match to adapt to the playing surface and lost the first set 1-6. They started the second set slowly and were 0-4 down. It was then 1-5 before they put in some solid play to reach 6-6 but they eventually lost the tie-break, 6-7.
Their second match was almost identical in game scores with Jo and Margaret losing the first set 2-6. They fought harder in the second set at 1-4 down to reach another tie break before losing the set 6-7.