Week 8 play in the Stratford Tennis League saw the league’s top two teams score impressive victories. In the early game Physiotherapy Associates doubled up on Donkers Agri with an 8 sets to 4 sets win. Physio got things started with its #1 ladies doubles team of Claire Scott and Marilyn Leasa scoring a 6-3 6-4 win over Maria Donkers and Lise Couture. Donkers’ #2 ladies doubles team of Sandra Darby and Louise Lever took their two sets 6-3 6-1 over Liz Yundt and Marilyn Holmes. The #1 men’s doubles saw a split as Donkers’ Bob Tamblyn and Bill White took the first set 6-4 before Physio’s Richard Bast and Murray Schiedel came back to win the second set 6-4. The #2 men’s doubles went to Physio as Tom Warnock and Todd Chisholm downed Brent Hiller and Gary Henry 6-1 6-4.
The mixed doubles had Donkers take the #1 match up as Donkers and Tamblyn defeated Scott and Bast 6-4. Physio took the #2 mixed doubles set 6-4 as Leasa and Schiedel downed Couture and White. Yundt and Warnock won the #3 mixed for Physio 6-3 over Darby and Hiller. The #4 mixed was won by Physio’s Holmes and Chisholm 7-6 (7 points to 4 in the tie-breaker) over Lever and Henry. The eight sets won by Physio have them 54 total sets for the season standings.
The late game had Jolanda’s Diet Secret take out SNAP 9 sets to 3. Jolanda’s #1 ladies doubles team of Krista Plociennik and Monica Eickmeyer scored a 6-2 6-4 win over Marta Andrekovic and Nancy Rheaume. SNAP’s #2 ladies doubles team of Cathy Mowbray and Noella Schiedel took out Jolanda Vandereigt and Ivy Chung 6-3 6-2. The men’s #1 doubles match saw Jolanda’s John Noble and Nathan Walsh win the first set 6-4 while SNAP’s Chris Parson and Greg Vivian took the second set 7-6 (7 – 3 in the tie-breaker). Jolanda’s Pat McCarroll and Cameron Kramer swept the #2 men’s doubles 6-1 6-4 over Jack Watson and Sing Chung.
Jolanda’s Plociennik and Noble won the #1 mixed match 6-2 over Andrekovic and Parson. Eickmeyer and Walsh of Jolanda’s scored a 6-3 win over Rheaume and Vivian in the #2 mixed. Jolanda’s also took the #3 mixed as Vandereigt and McCarroll scored a 6-4 victory over Mowbray and Watson. Jolanda’s completed the sweep of the mixed matches as Chung and Kramer downed Schiedel and Chung 6-2. Jolanda’s 9 sets moved them to within one set of Physiotherapy Associates as they now have 53 sets won on the season.
Week 9 will see a battle for first place in the early game as Physiotherapy Associates and Jolanda’s Diet Secret face each other. The late game sees Donkers Agri take on SNAP
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