Monday, September 13, 2004
Magdalen's Clay and Wakefield fizzle out after marathon tennis action
Even a careful study of the official score card does not reveal quite what happened to Marcus Clay and Mathew Wakefield. Having lost their first set unconvincingly, the Magdalen pair butched out a massive, edge-of-the-seat tie-break (13-11) to nick the second. Powering ahead 5-2 in the third, things looked, well, signed and delivered.
Not so, Sutton Churches crawled back into the set to 5-5. Games were then traded for the next hour or so, both sides clubbing out points, losing serve, breaking back all the way until...you guessed it. The Magdalen pair lost it 11-9. In the third.
Demoralised, spent and exhausted, the pair crumbled 6-4, 6-1 to Roy Orbison and companion.
Even a careful study of the official score card does not reveal quite what happened to Marcus Clay and Mathew Wakefield. Having lost their first set unconvincingly, the Magdalen pair butched out a massive, edge-of-the-seat tie-break (13-11) to nick the second. Powering ahead 5-2 in the third, things looked, well, signed and delivered.
Not so, Sutton Churches crawled back into the set to 5-5. Games were then traded for the next hour or so, both sides clubbing out points, losing serve, breaking back all the way until...you guessed it. The Magdalen pair lost it 11-9. In the third.
Demoralised, spent and exhausted, the pair crumbled 6-4, 6-1 to Roy Orbison and companion.
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