Zdenko Andrekovic of The Flashing Pearlies returns a volley in the Men’s # 1 Doubles
The second week of the Stratford Tennis League was played on Tuesday evening. In the early game DONKERS AGRI and The FLASHING PEARLIES battled to a 6 – 6 tie in sets won. The Mens #1 Doubles was swept by Richard Bast and Zdenko Andrekovic of the PEARLIES 6 – 0 , 7 – 6 (7 points to 4 in the tie-breaker) over John Noble and Shannon Dyke. DONKERS responded by taking the Men’s #2 Doubles 6 – 1, 6 – 2 as Pat McCarroll and Jack Watson dominated Paul Barclay and Sing Chung.
The FLASHING PEARLIES #1 Ladies doubles team of Marta Andrekovic and Claire Scott took both their sets with a 6 – 4 , 6 – 0 victory over Johanna Billings and Gail Shelton. The Ladies #2 doubles split their sets, as the PEARLIES Sandra Darby and Ivy Chung won the first set 6 – 4 and DONKERS Sandie Ennett and Jolanda Vandereijk came back to win the second set 6 – 3.
DONKERS AGRI took 3 of the 4 Mixed Doubles sets. In the #1 Mixed, DONKERS’ Billings and Noble handled Andrekovic and Bast 6 – 2. The FLASHING PEARLIES #2 Mixed team of Scott and Andrekovic scored a 6 – 2 win over Shelton and Dyke. Ennett and McCarroll of DONKERS scored a 6 – 4 victory over Darby and Barclay in the #3 Mixed match up. DONKERS secured the tie in sets, when the # 4 Mixed set was won by Vandereijk and Watson 6 – 2, over Chung and Chung.
The late game was a complete domination by OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY as they took PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATES, 11 to 1 in sets. OCCUPATIONAL started with a 6 – 3 , 6 – 2 win by #1 Mens Doubles team of Bob Tamblyn and Spencer Trachsel over Chris Parson and Bill White. Murray Schiedel and Jagdish Patel of OCCUPATIONAL took the #2 Mens Doubles 6 – 3 , 7 – 5 over Nathan Walsh and Morgan Davis. The Ladies #1 Doubles saw a split of sets as OCCUPATIONAL’S Lori McCabe and Annette Garneau took the first set 7 -5 before PHYSIOTHERAPY’S Linda Doig and Deb Murphy won their team’s only set of the night, with a 6 -1 win in the second set. Cathy Mowbray and Monica Eickmeyer of OCCUPATIONAL swept the Ladies #2 Doubles 6 – 2 , 6 – 4 over Nancy Chung and Lise Couture.
OCCUPATIONAL kept the wins going, as they swept all 4 Mixed Doubles sets. In the #1 Mixed match McCabe and Tamblyn shutout Doig and Parson 6 – 0. Garneau and Trachsel made a big comeback, winning the last 5 games to score a 7 -5 victory over Murphy and White. Mowbray and Schiedel took the #3 Mixed Doubles set 6 -3 over Chung and Walsh. The #4 Mixed Doubles set was won 6 – 4 by Eickmeyer and Patel, over Couture and Davis, to complete the big night for OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY.
Week 3 will see PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATES face The FLASHING PEARLIES in the early game and in the late game DONKERS AGRI will try to slow down the red hot OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY.