The finals of this year's singles league took place on 11th December.

Group A was reasonably straightforward. The final positions were: 1st Olly Lester 3, 2nd Terry Oakes 2, 3rd Kevin Laws 1, 4th Richard Matthews 0.

 

Group B was extremely close with several very tight matches. The positions had to be determined by games won and then head to head.  Positions were: 1st Tomasz Zbikowski 2, 2nd Steve Ingle 2, 3rd Simon Hancock 2, 4th Jean-Marc Michel (replaced by Chris Drew for final group match) 0.

 

Play off were then held to determine the final positions. These produced a final order of

1-Olly Lester, 2-Tomasz Zbikowski, 3-Terry Oakes, 4-Steve Ingle, 5-Simon Hancock, 6-Kevin Laws, 7-Chris Drew, 8- Richard Matthews.

 

Congratulation to all but especially Olly on four very convincing victories at a total loss of three games!

Thank you for competing in the Singles League. A grand total of 108 matches were played so it can definitely be considered a great success which will hopefully be repeated next year- probably with LTA ratings points at stake!

 

The top 8 players (shown in bold) will compete in the finals on Sat 12th Dec starting at 10 am

 

Group positions are shown below. Where players are equal on points then the proportion of sets won to sets played is decisive.

 

Group 1:

1-Richard Matthews-10

2-Jeremy Law-10

3-Piotr Tymula-9

4-Michael Barker-6

5-Vania Vassileva Mann-6

6-Oscar Golden Lee-4

7-John Farren-3

 

Group 2:

1-Olly Lester-12

2-Christa Gecheva-11

3-Nico van der Westhuisen-8

4-Chris Drew-8

5-Simon Hancock-5 (qualified by fast completion of matches)

6- Pratha Mahendran-7

7-Daryl Eaton-6

8-John Wiltshire-6

 

Group 3:

1-Terry Oakes-13

2-Tomasz Zbikowski-11 (qualified as best runner-up)

3-Oscar Grancha-10

4-James Reed-8

5-Zairin Faisal-7

6-Vakhid Saparov-6

7-Luis Egui-6

8-Russell Loveland-1

 

Group 4:

1-Kevin Laws-14

2-Jean-Marc Michel-13(qualified by fast completion of matches)

3-Pablo Cienfuegos-8

4-Martin Schiller-8

5-Matt Hudspith-7

6-Janet Birch-5

7-Joe Heaver-3

8- Adam Briggs-2

 

Group 5:

1-David Zamora-10 (not available for finals)

2-Martyn Lunn-9

3-Georgi Gechev-7

4-Graham Bradley-6

5-Nicolas Gruselle-5

6-Max Afriyie-4

7-Mark Winn-4

8-Jason Beever-3

 

Group 6:

1-Steve Ingle-10

2-Roger Tagholm-9

3-Damian McFadden-8

4-Richard Cumbley-5

5-Martin Howley-3

6-Andrew Douglas-3

7-Joe Chadwick-2

8-Richard Jones-1