The Braintree Table Tennis League second division trophy is clearly heading in Sudbury Wanderers’ direction but who will carry off the runners-up trophies is another matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For some time they had appeared to be destined for Rayne D but a couple of stumbles pulled them back into the pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And their latest result – more of a tumble than a stumble – has relegated them to fourth place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The absence of Dave Moles and Dave Marsh did not help, but a 9-1 reverse at the hands of Black Notley D was still unexpected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Notley included new signing Wictor Delimat, who quickly proved his worth by winning his three singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was joined by Alesha Ellis-Austin, who had her best evening in the league so far with three wins in straight games, while Richard Whiteside picked up Rayne D’s sole point, a win at 11-8 in the fifth over Stewart Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Notley D climbed above their opponents as a result of that win, but it’s Rayne’s E team who now occupy second place. They beat Netts D 7-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next two teams, Notley C and Netts C, both had 8-2 wins, over Rayne F and Notley F respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rev Matthews was unbeaten for Notley C and Charles Calisin for Netts C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The top two in division one both had 10-0 wins, Netts A over Notley A and Rayne A against Liberal C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Liberal B and Rayne B are separated by one point in third and fourth place and the match between them reflected that in that six of the ten sets went to five games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sadly for Liberal B, they only won two of them, and they lost the other four as well to finish 8-2 down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victor Chan and Steve Pennell were unbeaten for Rayne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Liberal A drew with Notley B while Netts B scored their second successive win and climbed out of the bottom two by beating a two-man Rayne C, the team below them, 8-2. Joe Meleschko was unbeaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In division three, leaders Finchingfield A beat Rayne H 9-1 – a good win for Conrad Gomes over Dave Punt – while Sudbury Strollers increased the gap between them and third-placed Notley G to four points by beating Notley I 8-2 while Notley G drew with Rayne G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gap is only likely to grow bigger if Richard Fifield continues to turn out for Strollers. His second appearance was a repeat of his first, three wins, with only one game dropped in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Newcomer Adrian Boeriu, of Notley I, continues to impress in his first season: Peter Abbott is not an easy opponent to get past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Notley I drop behind Finchingfield B, who had an 8-2 win over Netts F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lucien Nolan-Bradford won the battle of the 16-year-olds – they were born 19 days apart – just nudging home against JJ Calisin at 14-12 in the fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigel Parmenter was the man in form for Notley H. \u00a0He won his three sets against Yeldham B but his teammates failed to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Report by Ron Fosker<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Braintree Table Tennis League second division trophy is clearly heading in Sudbury Wanderers’ direction but who will carry off the runners-up trophies is another matter. For some time they had appeared to be destined for Rayne D but a couple of stumbles pulled them back into the pack. And their latest result – more […]<\/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\/3387"}],"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=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/3389"}],"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=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"