Review: Felsted hosted the OF’s on
Saturday the 19th May. This is an annual fixture against the Schools
Old Boys', who enjoy returning to the School to play on the Grass Courts
against the Schools’ current 1st team.
This is a wonderful fixture for
the Old Boys who enjoy coming back and reliving the memories of when they
represented the School on the very same courts. This year was particularly
special as the OF’s turned out the same 6 players, in the very same pairings,
that lined up for the School in 1982.
1st Pair Marcus Hoare
and Richard Morley Jacob, 2nd Pair Simon Bastin (Captain) and Hugo
Sellers, and 3rd Pair Graham Appleyard and James Percival.
Felsted’s first pair of Captain Ollie Lane and
Max Haendle had a very successful afternoon. They went undefeated and recorded
two wins and a draw for the School. The highlight for the boys came in their
game against the OF’s 2nd pair of Simon Bastin, Team Captain, and
Hugo Sellers. The boys won this match but it took a dramatic comeback when they
found themselves 2-6 down in a tiebreaker, but somehow managed to claw their
way back to win the tie breaker 8-6.
The Third pair of Harry Silcock and Cristobal
Pohle Vazquez, did not have as much luck losing all 3 sets, but were unlucky on
a number of occasions losing on small margins, such as 4-6, 3-6 in one of their
matches.
Second pair Gus Nicholson and Ed Reid recorded
two victories out of three and provided great drama in their last match when
Felsted needed to win the last set to draw the match. In dramatic fashion the set went to a
tiebreaker and Felsted won 8-6 to take
a valuable point resulting in the match being a draw, with 4.5 points recorded
by both sides.
Man of the match was Captain Ollie Lane who
was instrumental in motivating his players to keep going to the very end which
ensured the players stayed focused. Many thanks to the OF team for a game which
was played in great spirit and for their one to one advice at the end to each
of the students.
Player of the match: Ollie Lane
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