By Sam Campbell
The Couldabeens have delivered a convincing win on Wednesday night before a social exhibition on Thursday night capped off an interesting week of Broken Hill tennis.
Division 1 was a mixed bag of results by the end of the Wednesday night.
In the first round 8 fixture between Couldabeens and Feauties, it was a clean sweep.
The line-up for Couldabeens consisting of Wayne Lee, Glen Andrich, Jamie Passlow and Leonie Channing roared into action – winning the night in a convincing matter.
At the night’s conclusion, Couldabeens were six sets 42 games to Feauties scarce 17 games.
It got close between Macblack and Spin Doctors with many matches either 7-4 or 7-5.
For context, Broken Hill tennis matches are played to seven with a tiebreaker at six-all, rather than the commonly played to six.
Jack Woods and Ashley Mason opened Macblack’s account with a hard-fought win over Shaun and Tom Kennedy.
Macblack strengthened their early ascendancy with a 7-1 by Hamish Curtis and Ryan Lewis over Jenny Powell and Julie Sandy.
Sandy and Shaun Kennedy managed to rally and jag a set for Spin Doctors, beating Mason and Lewis 7-4.
Sandy kept the good times rolling when she partnered with Tom Kennedy to down Mason and Woods 7-5.
Unfortunately, they would be the only two sets Spin Doctors would get as Macblack finished ahead 4-37 to 2-25.
In the last match of the night between Net Ninjas and Keen-On Balls, games decided the victor.
Keen-On Balls came out of the gates strong, winning both opening doubles. However, Net Ninjas did not go quietly into the night with Ken Caldwell and Praise Oklong claiming a 7-3 win over Stephen Cicak and Kelli Keenan.
But that comeback looked all but foiled as Boyd Keenan and the mysteriously single-named “Tony” winning 7-0 over Oliver Brown and Matt Molloy.
Heading into the final two sets of the night and down 3-1 on sets, Net Ninjas needed to pull something from the hat.
It came in the form of two wins, tying the match on sets and forcing a count on games scored across the night.
The magic was over though, as Keen-On Balls snuck past 3-33 to 3-33.
On Thursday night with the Open A, a number of absences meant that there was an amalgamation of available players into two teams for night of social, yet high-quality tennis.
With the round put off, all attendees took to court and played three doubles matches each with the scoreline not even at the forefront of minds.
There was a slight delay as the fire brigade was called either for a burning briefcase in a nearby drainway or for Evan Boylan’s rocketing serves he was smoking down, confirmation is still needed.
The social hit serving as a reminder to the community to come down to the O’Neill Park Complex tennis courts off Wolfram Street on Wednesday and Thursday nights at 7pm to join up in the local tennis scene.
