The top two teams in Division 1 of the Southend Summer League, Basildon A and Hockley A, both recorded 9-0 wins this week to maintain their positions at the top of the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
League leaders Basildon walloped Hockley B with Les Hoey, Andy Seaman and Rob Burton unbeaten and only dropping four sets between them all night. No match went beyond four sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hockley A\u2019s win at Matchpoint was much harder with three matches going the distance. Hockley\u2019s Dan Patynski found himself 2-1 down in both his singles before winning the deciding sets 11\/2 in both matches. Dan Stewart and Robert Harris were Matchpoint\u2019s unlucky losers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The initial doubles match of the evening, Robert Harris and Samuel Morgan against Elliot Brackenbury and Sanjay Saptarshi, also went to five sets and also saw Hockley fight back from 2-1 down before winning the decider 11\/4. Teenager Brackenbury took the Player of the Match award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whilst the leaders swept all before them fellow title contenders Rawreth and Stanford A took points off each other with Rawreth winning 6-3 to keep them in third place twelve points behind Hockley but with a game in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kevin Read was Rawreth\u2019s star winning all his singles and doubles with Aaron Chandler providing the other two points from his singles wins. Stanford, without their star player Mitchell Jones, had Peter Weatherall and Ian Sangster to thank for their victories over Norbert Fullerton and they combined to win the doubles against Fullerton and Chandler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stanford stay fourth but are now ten points behind Rawreth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Invicta A gave a debut to Charles Morris in their match against Hadleigh Forum but it turned out to be a baptism of fire as Hadleigh eased to an 8-1 victory. The match was actually level after two games with Paul Sims chalking up Invicta\u2019s only point by beating Anthon Ranjit-Singh after Simon Jacobs and Richard Jackman had won the opening doubles for Hadleigh. After that it was pretty much plain sailing for the Hadleigh boys with just two matches going the full five sets. In the doubles Sims and Ayliffe had a 2-1 lead at one point before Ranjit-Singh and Jackman fought back to win in five sets. Sims almost claimed another point for Invicta but lost 11\/8 in the fifth to Jackman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Basildon B and Wakering, both winless, met in a bottom of the table clash but it was Wakering who emerged winners 7-2 after a hardfought match. Three matches went the distance and four to four sets. Martin Shaughnessy and Barbara Chabior both won their two singles with Shaughnessy also winning both his doubles to take the Player of the Match award and Paul England added a further singles win. Chudi Ukpaka was Basildon\u2019s best player beating England in four sets and combining with Dave Reynolds to win their doubles. He almost added another doubles win when he and Jenne Seibolt went down in five sets to England and Shaughnessy. Wakering jump to sixth in the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Team of the Week \u2013 Wakering<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Player of the Week \u2013 Elliot Brackenbury<\/p>\n\n\n\n The top two teams in Division 1 of the Southend Summer League, Basildon A and Hockley A, both recorded 9-0 wins this week to maintain their positions at the top of the table. League leaders Basildon walloped Hockley B with Les Hoey, Andy Seaman and Rob Burton unbeaten and only dropping four sets between them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3186,"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\/4598"}],"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=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"