The second week of the Stratford Tennis League was held Tuesday, June 11th. After close games in week 1, this week the games saw one team dominate their opponents.
The early game had Sunrise Health Services take on Donkers Agri. The men’s doubles saw splits happen in both the #1 and #2 match ups. In the #1 match, John Noble and Spencer Trachsel of Sunrise took the first set 6-2 , while Bob Tamblyn and Todd Chisholm of Donkers won the second set 6-2. Sunrise’s Pat McCarroll and Steve Fischer skunked Mike Furlong and Bill Steele 6-0 in the first set of the #2 match, but fell 6-2 in the second set. The ladies doubles is where Sunrise started to dominate the match, sweeping all four sets. In the #1 match up Claire Scott and Debbie Murphy defeated Marta Andrekovic and Lise Couture 6-0 7-5, then the #2 had Marilyn Leasa and Marilyn Holmes take out Erma Weernick and Michele Thomson 6-2 7-6 (7 points to 3 in the tie-breaker).
Donkers took the first set of the mixed doubles as Andrekovic and Tamblyn scored a 6-2 victory over Scott and Noble. After that it was all Sunrise as they swept the other three mixed sets. Murphy and Trachsel downed Couture and Chisholm 6-4. Leasa and McCarroll doubled up Weernick and Furlong 6-3 and Holmes and Fischer took out Thomson and Steele 6-2.
With their 9 sets to 3 win Sunrise scored their second straight victory and are in first place in the season’s standings.
The late game was not as close as the early game. LaDebonaire Hair Design walked all over SNAP winning 10 sets to 2. It began in the men’s #1 doubles as Richard Bast and Grant McPherson breezed through Chris Parson and Murray Schiedel 6-1 6-1. The #2 men’s doubles was a 6-3 6-1 win for LaDebonaire’s Paul Coates and Cameron Kramer over Gary Henry and Stuart Arkett. LaDebonaire swept the ladies #1 doubles as Krista Plociennik and Sandie Ennett downed Linda Doig and Johanna Billings 6-1 6-4. The #2 ladies doubles was a split of sets as Ginny Smith and Jolanda Vandereijk won the first set for LaDebonaire 6-4, but Snap won their first set of the night when Nancy Chung and Noella Schiedel took the second set 6-3.
The #1 mixed set went to LaDebonaire as Plociennik and Bast beat Doig and Parson 6-2. Snap took the #2 mixed set 6-4 as Billings and Schiedel downed Ennett and McPherson. The #3 and #4 mixed sets were easily won by LaDebonaire as Smith and Coates cruised past Chung and Henry 6-1, and Vandereijk and Kramer defeated Schiedel and Arkett by the same 6-1 score.
LaDebonaire’s 10-2 victory moved them into a tie with Sunrise for first place in the standings. This sets up a great match up for next week as these teams meet in the early game. Donkers and Snap will try to get back on track when they face each other in the late game.
The league’s youngest participant,Grant McPherson, cracks a forehand winner in the men’s doubles.