It is a measure of how evenly balanced division two of the Braintree Table Tennis League is that the top eight teams are covered by just nine points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Week three results were a good illustration: three draws and a 7-3, with Rayne D\u2019s 9-1 win over Netts D the only outlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While last week\u2019s leaders Sudbury Wanderers were without a match, that win took Rayne D to the top of the table but Rayne E, who were level on points, slipped back after being held to a draw by Yeldham Whitlocks A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matthew Brown took his expected three singles for Rayne E but two each from Roy Hooper and Doug Sanders, plus the doubles, enabled Yeldham to share the points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Netts C and Black Notley\u2019s E and F teams are two points behind after Netts drew with Rayne F and E beat F in the Notley battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kierlan Richards was unbeaten for Netts C and Jamie Brooks for Notley E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other draw was between Notley\u2019s D and C teams, where Rev Matthews was unbeaten and Gordon Fairchild made a welcome return to action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In division one, last year\u2019s top two, Rayne A and Netts A, both won 9-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rayne beat Notley B, where Steve Noble had an excellent win over Adam Buxton, while Netts beat Liberal B, Robin Armstrong\u2019s win over Andy Holmes the one that got away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scott Dowsett won his three singles in Liberal A\u2019s draw at Rayne C while Chris Parr was unbeaten in Notley A\u2019s 7-3 win over Netts B where Jamie Brooks, playing up from division two, had a good win over Joe Meleschko, avenging his defeat at 12-10 in the fifth at the end of last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finchingfield A continued their impressive run at the top of division three, although their 10-0 win over a two-person Netts F was not as straightforward as it looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JJ Calisin pushed John Barrett to five games as did he and James Howard against Barrett and Peter Clark in the doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finchingfield\u2019s B team notched up their first win of the season, 8-2 over Netts E, with John Dennison and Stewart Grant unbeaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeldham B made it two wins out of two with a 6-4 victory over Rayne G where Steve Willis\u2019s three singles and a doubles held them together, while Jacqueline Smith was unbeaten in Notley G\u2019s 7-3 win over Rayne H.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Report by Ron Fosker<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a measure of how evenly balanced division two of the Braintree Table Tennis League is that the top eight teams are covered by just nine points. Week three results were a good illustration: three draws and a 7-3, with Rayne D\u2019s 9-1 win over Netts D the only outlier. While last week\u2019s leaders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"