Charterhouse v St Paul’s
On: Thursday 21 January
Result: Won
1st: Oli Taylor (C) and Freddie Russell-Jones: W 3-0 15/11 15/11 15/6
Oli and Freddie continued their excellent start to 2016 with a confident victory over a decent St Paul’s pair. Both, once again, were comfortable in the rallies and, crucially, served to a telling length in every game to ensure that the opposition were always trying to play catch up - which they never did.
Colts A: Max Vallance + Ben Hollingworth: W 3-0 15/4 15/8 15/13
This was a comprehensive victory for this increasingly impressive pair. Ben continued where he left off last week enjoying a glorious vein of good form whilst Max was his usual highly competitive self. Ben’s serving was again of a very high quality and he rallied with great consistency, Max hit the ball harder and collected a number of clean winners. This is most encouraging for the second half of the season.
Junior Colts A: Adam Phillips + Jonnie Capuano: L 1-3 5/15 15/6 11/15 10/15
This was an impressive performance given that Jonnie (one of three matches he played this afternoon!) was playing up a year when Adam’s normal partner went off-change the day before the match. Adam was his usual busy self about the court, and with his new improved forehand saw him chase down many balls and hit good winners. Jonnie played with common sense and an impressive degree of calmness and saw him return a large percentage of serves on his back hand in a measured way and then, when he had the chance, serve a very telling length. They thoroughly deserved to win one game and were very competitive in the last two and on another day might have done even better.
Yearlings A: Jonnie Capuano + Alex Topley: W 3-1 15/0 15/5 0/15 15/12 . . . and . . .
W 3-0 15/8 15/5 15/4
Alex and Jonnie played two different St Paul’s Yearling pairs this afternoon and in each case showed how much they have improved in such a short period of time since September. Both have developed a consistently good serve which all the St Paul’s boys struggled to deal with, but now they are beginning to start to attack the service return as well as loose balls mid-rally. This pair have real potential - watch this space.
Another very satisfying afternoon of racquets to follow on from the clean sweep last Thursday over Haileybury.