David Stephens rallies to beat Andrey in a gripping final
A wildcard, David Stephens captured the 2005 year-end championship title. It was a gripping final; Andrey started well and went ahead 3-1 but suddenly started limping indicating a knee injury. After a short medical timeout Andrey came back but still clearly struggling with around the court movement. 
David, being more experienced took advantage of his opponent’s weakness and started playing long relies and spreading the ball from side to side. He eventually managed to turn the match around to take a decisive 5-3 lead – or so he thought. After some energy boosting and somewhat intimidating shouts in Russian, Andrey came back to life and while leading 6-5 he served for the match. It was his worst service game of the day which allowed David to take the match to tie-break.
In the breaker, David managed to last longer and won the match 7-6(5).
When they walked in the club house they received a standing ovation from the jubilant crowd. It was a fitting final for a marathon day of tennis.
In the quarter finals, John had Andrey beaten and literally on the ground but the Russian recovered again and went on to the semi-finals where he posted a surprisingly easy victory against the tournament favourite, Martin Morris.
In the other quarter final Boban posted a very close and very intensive 7-6 win against Thumpy, arguably the best shot maker on the ladder. In the semis against David, Boban never gave any resistance, the gamble with beer and flapjack in the short interval went horribly wrong.
This was not only a tennis skills tournament but also endurance exercise, quite a few people, including #1 ranked Brian and Nigel went home undefeated but they could not last the time, it was either injuries or wives.
The prizes, Windsor Tennis Club baseball bestseller hats for the semi-finalists and a bottle of wine for the finalist was donated by club while the top prize, a bottle of Vintage Moet & Shandon champagne was donated by www.etondigital.com; acessible web design experts.
more pictures from the championship.
David, being more experienced took advantage of his opponent’s weakness and started playing long relies and spreading the ball from side to side. He eventually managed to turn the match around to take a decisive 5-3 lead – or so he thought. After some energy boosting and somewhat intimidating shouts in Russian, Andrey came back to life and while leading 6-5 he served for the match. It was his worst service game of the day which allowed David to take the match to tie-break. In the breaker, David managed to last longer and won the match 7-6(5).
When they walked in the club house they received a standing ovation from the jubilant crowd. It was a fitting final for a marathon day of tennis.
In the quarter finals, John had Andrey beaten and literally on the ground but the Russian recovered again and went on to the semi-finals where he posted a surprisingly easy victory against the tournament favourite, Martin Morris.
In the other quarter final Boban posted a very close and very intensive 7-6 win against Thumpy, arguably the best shot maker on the ladder. In the semis against David, Boban never gave any resistance, the gamble with beer and flapjack in the short interval went horribly wrong.
This was not only a tennis skills tournament but also endurance exercise, quite a few people, including #1 ranked Brian and Nigel went home undefeated but they could not last the time, it was either injuries or wives.
The prizes, Windsor Tennis Club baseball bestseller hats for the semi-finalists and a bottle of wine for the finalist was donated by club while the top prize, a bottle of Vintage Moet & Shandon champagne was donated by www.etondigital.com; acessible web design experts.
more pictures from the championship.
- David Stephens
- Andrey
- Martin Morris
- Boban
- Thampy Jacob
- John Symon
- Alan Turner
- Brian Hunter
- Steve Luengo-Jones
- Mike Ward
- John Symon
- Nigel Blanchard
- Dean Holroyd
- Mike Jackman
- David Rennie
- Christopher
- Richard Foley
- Brian Farrell
- Martin James
- Stephen White
- Richard Vandenbergh
- Steve Marney
- Richard Greensmith
- Steven Connolly
- Tom Howkins
- James Wyatt
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