Finchingfield B and Rayne F have emerged as the front runners in division three of the Braintree Table Tennis League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both have recorded three wins in the first three weeks of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finchingfield B had to work hard for their 6-4 win over Sudbury Drifters, with Geoff Barrett and Ian Whipps in good form for the visitors. But Lucien Nolan-Bradford\u2019s three singles, plus the doubles with Peter Dacey, helped steer them home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rayne F, who started the week two points behind, drew level with Finchingfield after an 8-2 win over Black Notley F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conrad Gomes and Dave Whiting were undefeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After dropping down a division, Dave Parker made a successful division three debut by taking his three singles in Notley E\u2019s 7-3 win over Yeldham Whitlocks B. Ken Wilding did likewise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eighteen-year-old Frank Chapman was unbeaten in Netts F\u2019s 6-4 win over Notley H, as were Tim Gowers and Ian Rubens in Rayne G\u2019s 8-2 victory over Netts E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rayne C continue to set the pace in division two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matthew Brown was unbeaten in their 7-3 win over Finchingfield A, but John Barrett can be pleased with the two wins he picked up for the losers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rayne\u2019s other two teams in the division were on the same table where the D team comfortably beat an E team that included two reserves 9-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In division one, the clash between Netts A and Rayne A has been a title decider in recent years but with the abdication of Rayne\u2019s 2024 title-winning trio, is likely to have less bearing on things this time, so much so that Netts felt able to include two of last year\u2019s B team in their line-up and still ended up 7-3 victors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sudbury Nomads made it two wins out of two with a 9-1 victory over Netts\u2019 B team. The one that got away was the most notable of the evening, an excellent win for Charles Calisin over the much-travelled Ken Lewis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James Mullane and Zach Harrington took all seven in Liberal A\u2019s 7-3 win over Notley B while John Andrews, in his first match of the season, was unbeaten in Rayne B\u2019s 6-4 win over Liberal B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Report by Ron Fosker<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finchingfield B and Rayne F have emerged as the front runners in division three of the Braintree Table Tennis League. Both have recorded three wins in the first three weeks of the season. Finchingfield B had to work hard for their 6-4 win over Sudbury Drifters, with Geoff Barrett and Ian Whipps in good form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"closed","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\/4039"}],"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=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4041,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4041"}],"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=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"