Finchingfield A’s apparently relentless progress towards the division three title in the Braintree Table Tennis League received a major boost when their only serious rivals, Sudbury Strollers, suffered a crushing 9-1 defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The team responsible were Finchingfield’s own B team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strollers had won all five matches up to that point but were no match for Stewart Grant, Lucien Nolan-Bradford and Chad Rose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grant, still unbeaten this season, and 16-year-old Nolan-Bradford won their three singles while Peter Abbott preserved a modicum of respectability for Strollers by beating Rose 11-6 in the fifth game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finchingfield A didn’t just rely on their B team. They added eight points to their total against third-placed Black Notley G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One place behind their G team, Notley I had a 7-3 win over Rayne G, where Ben Southgate was the only one to beat Ted Sims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adrian Boeriu, new to league table tennis this season, scored excellent wins over the experienced Alastair Brown and Brian How and had a match point before bowing out against Sims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps the performance of the week came from 10-year-old Ethan Collins. He won his three singles in Rayne H’s 6-4 win over Yeldham Whitlocks B, including a very creditable win over Steve Willis, a division two player last season with only three defeats behind him this term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Netts v Netts battle at the lower end of the table, JJ Calisin’s three sets helped F beat E 6-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strollers weren’t the only Sudbury team to suffer an unexpected defeat. Wanderers, with five wins out of five in division two, came up against a stronger than usual Rayne E where they were unable to cope with the twin thrust of Matthew Brown and Adi Kamma, who took all seven between them in a 7-3 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kamma had to fight hard, though. He had to come from two games down to beat Ian Shrubsole 11-8 in the fifth, while Louise Hartshorn took him even closer, 13-11 in the fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The damage was limited, however, as rivals Rayne D were held to 6-4 by Notley C. Dave Moles continued his excellent form with three wins, which takes him to 19 out of 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Notley D beat Netts C 9-1 with unbeaten evenings from Alesha Ellis-Austin and Paul Nicol, while the Notley’s E team and Rayne F shared the points, with Notley’s Jamie Brooks unbeaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In division one, Notley’s A and B teams both notched up victories against Liberal teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The A team beat Liberal A 6-4 despite three wins from Brandon Crouchman while the B team came away 9-1 better off against Liberal C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A consolation for the Sudbury club came from their first team, Nomads, who dealt with a two-man Rayne B 9-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Report by Ron Fosker<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finchingfield A’s apparently relentless progress towards the division three title in the Braintree Table Tennis League received a major boost when their only serious rivals, Sudbury Strollers, suffered a crushing 9-1 defeat. The team responsible were Finchingfield’s own B team. Strollers had won all five matches up to that point but were no match for […]<\/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\/3300"}],"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=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3316"}],"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=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"