Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Magdalen's Cook and Clay toil away to no avail
A fighting display from Clay and textbook play from Cook left Magdalen Park Vth sadly two rubbers short of victory in darkest South Croydon. Derek Cook's plucky two-handed backhand and his confusing service wind-up motion all but baffled the oppo, whilst Clay's whippy, toppy forehand produced some marvellous cross-court winners.
"We may have ccome a cropper," commented Cook, a leading disease researcher who battled with a splitting headache on the day, "but we will surely stuff their third team in the league." Ironically, the valliant Vth team meet South Croydon iii on the 20th and revenge is in the air.
A fighting display from Clay and textbook play from Cook left Magdalen Park Vth sadly two rubbers short of victory in darkest South Croydon. Derek Cook's plucky two-handed backhand and his confusing service wind-up motion all but baffled the oppo, whilst Clay's whippy, toppy forehand produced some marvellous cross-court winners.
"We may have ccome a cropper," commented Cook, a leading disease researcher who battled with a splitting headache on the day, "but we will surely stuff their third team in the league." Ironically, the valliant Vth team meet South Croydon iii on the 20th and revenge is in the air.
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Tennis club stars rattled by weather
Magdalen Park Vth Team crashed out of the Surrey league knockout tournament to South Croydon ii. Paulo Schmetzer and Roger Willcocks were particulary tormented by sunshine, niggled by a pleasant southerly breeze and made generally to sweat by conditions described as "warm" by metrologists. "Wind, rain and hail are our natural elements," railed Willcocks. "How can finely honed games like ours be expected to deal with weather like this? It's just not cricket."
Schmetzer's quiet hispanic cursings were not discreetly disseminated into the winds as they normally are in the Vth teams native habitat.
Magdalen Park Vth Team crashed out of the Surrey league knockout tournament to South Croydon ii. Paulo Schmetzer and Roger Willcocks were particulary tormented by sunshine, niggled by a pleasant southerly breeze and made generally to sweat by conditions described as "warm" by metrologists. "Wind, rain and hail are our natural elements," railed Willcocks. "How can finely honed games like ours be expected to deal with weather like this? It's just not cricket."
Schmetzer's quiet hispanic cursings were not discreetly disseminated into the winds as they normally are in the Vth teams native habitat.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Andy Roddick bounces Magdalen Park Vth team at Stella Artois
Asked by a heckler in the crowds at Queen's Tennis Club prestigious Stella Artois Masters event at a clutch moment during a second round match if he would have fun playing for Magdalen, World No. 2 Andy Roddick glared angrily at the unnamed recruiter. "No f**king way, man" echoed around the carpet of green.
Pat Jamieson didn't want to play either, so there. "We only want to play with people who want to play and not with people who don't want to play just because they don't," fired Vth team stalwart Marcus Clay.
Asked by a heckler in the crowds at Queen's Tennis Club prestigious Stella Artois Masters event at a clutch moment during a second round match if he would have fun playing for Magdalen, World No. 2 Andy Roddick glared angrily at the unnamed recruiter. "No f**king way, man" echoed around the carpet of green.
Pat Jamieson didn't want to play either, so there. "We only want to play with people who want to play and not with people who don't want to play just because they don't," fired Vth team stalwart Marcus Clay.
Magdalen Park tennis ace Schmetzer boasts bum like Agassi
"Some people can't tell the difference," said one admiring female fan. "We conducted extensive shape and motion analysis of the way the respective organs curve and bounce during take-off and follow-through. Andre's second serve induces the same topographical patterns as Paulo's first. Especially when he's drunk."
"Some people can't tell the difference," said one admiring female fan. "We conducted extensive shape and motion analysis of the way the respective organs curve and bounce during take-off and follow-through. Andre's second serve induces the same topographical patterns as Paulo's first. Especially when he's drunk."
