Thursday 20 January 2011

Grange 2 home v Edinburgh Sports Club 3 (Wed 19th January)

Wednesday's evening match against Edinburgh Sports Club 3 saw the first home match of the second half of the season for Grange 2's.

First on at 5th string was Patrick [Langley] a match that I did not witness. Judging by the result if i'd blinked, I would have missed the whole game. Pat winning in no time 9/1 9/1 9/2 without breaking sweat, literally!!! Does Pat have the same nervous system as Roger Federer I ask?

Next up on court were the no 2's Mike Hall and Chris Broch. Still recovering from a virus Mike found the pace from Chris to quick in the first game losing it 2/9. The 2nd and 3rd games proved to be a more even contast as in the second game which 'stalled' at 8 all ---with several hand outs going to each player before Chris finally took the game with a couple of tight accurate winning drives. The 3rd and final game proved to be just as close before Chris's consistent accurate drives and Mike's 'forced errors' proved to be the deciding factor. Chris winning 2/9 8/10 7/9

Match of the day was definately between No 3's Duncan Walker and Peter Brierley.
Grange man Duncan for the first two games played to a standard which one of the watching opposition descibed as "awesome" With Duncan playing in an all Red kit and hitting fantastic shots with silky touch on the ball, reminded me of 'King Kenny' [Dalglish] at his best. C'mon The Reds---oops I mean Duncan. Then during the second half The Edinburgh Sports club man also began to play awesome squash as well. In the post match match interview Duncan agreed that a combination of him beginning to tire and everything 'going in' for his opponent proved to be the decisive factor. Duncan losing out 9/7 9/2 4/9 2/9 1/9 Great performance from Duncan though!!!

Playing at No 4 saw Clive Allison against Ken Steele . A tight tense match saw Clive lose the first game 5/9. Coming back from injury Clive slowly started to find his old form and belief and managed to take the second 9/4. The whole match came down to the wire and with Clive serving at 8/5 in the 5th game you still felt the match could have gone either way. Clive finally digging deep into his reserves and competing strongly to close out 5/9 9/4 7/9 9/2 9/5.

The final 1st string match was a 'strictly' one sided affair as a result of Rob [Pfab] having just come back from spending several weeks on holiday in Argentina.I'd recently read that learning the Tango can prevent Alzheimers. Strange really because an 'anonymous' Grange spectator commented that Rob's passion for the tango had resulted in him "forgetting how to play squash" I replied that it's only a matter of time before Rob rediscovers his smooth one-beat-per-measure walk with some double time steps , stepping on one- two- or (rarely) all three beats in a measure --- and I'm referring to his squash!!! Waheed Mohammed winning against Rob 9/0 9/1 9/1 (Report: Mike Hall, pundit, player, coach and frustrated Koppite)

Final Match Score Grange 10points ESC 20points

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