Here’s Andrew Petit’s report on this week’s Longman Cup triumph…
On Wednesday, April 22nd, we had our first victory in the AC Inter-Club handicap tournament since 2017.
On a beautiful Spring day we hosted the first-round match — and the first CqE AC match of the season —against Bristol, who have often been our nemesis in the past.
We got off to a flying start with Andy Evason and Andrew Petit gaining two comfortable victories in their morning singles matches.
Meanwhile, Deirdre Cochrane and Nigel Cox were battling it out in their doubles match against Bristol’s captain Margot Soakell and Simon Rye. Having got off to a very shaky start, Deirdre and Nigel valiantly fought back to 17-all at full time. Both teams had good opportunities to win the golden hoop, but it was Bristol that finally made it on the third attempt.
So the lunchtime score was 2-1, with four singles matches to be played in the afternoon.
Blewbury managed to win two of these through Evason and Petit, which was enough to bring about a 4-3 victory.
In the next round, we play Kington Langley. They beat us last year — but this time, we will have the home advantage.