Today's competition took place in bright sunshine - with pockets of snow still around!
The 8 players were: Annie, Gill, Tess & Rosie + Greg, Ken, David and Rob
After the round robin matches, Tess again came out with the top score!
The one set final ended up as: Tess & David v Annie and Rob
The finalists - Tess, David, Rob & Annie
The winning partnership in action! They won 6-3.
Refreshments, post-match analysis (possibly not!) and chat afterwards
Happy New Year to you all!
It is quite incredible to think that we started this monthly photo "project" back in October 2018. There have been a couple of times when a topic has straddled 2 months and then this one where, with other things happening over the last few months, we have had 3 months.
So finally, here are all our interpretations on the theme of "candles" - topic number 67!
To start us off, here are similar "takes" on the topic from three of you with a long memory for old TV programmes!
Specifically, The Two Ronnies' and their “Fork Andles” sketch!
Rosie - Carols at New College, Oxford
Rosie - Eden admiring the nativity set at New College
We were very lucky today with the weather as the previous two days had been dominated by the strong winds of Storm Darragh!
The players this afternoon were:
Rob, David, Greg & Chris + Tess, Caryl, Carey & Anna
The round robin matches were all very tight and there was not much difference in everyone's score at the end of the 3 rounds.
The overall best score today was Tess with 15 points!
The one set final (played under the excellent floodlights!) ended up as:
Tess & Greg v Carey & Chris
The final was extremely close (and long!) so when it reached 6 - 6 we decided that it would be best to just call it a draw - so everyone was a winner!
Many thanks to everyone for making it such a fun afternoon of padel, with some amazing rallies throughout all the matches.
Here are a few photos - of the finalists + some shots taken during different games. Well played everyone!
The finalists - Carey, Chris, Greg & Tess
The players this afternoon were:
Kish, David, Greg & Ken + Tess, Caryl, Carey & Annie.
Amazingly the only problem with the weather today was the setting sun!
We had a great time in the round robin matches - David and Carey were the top scoring man & lady. However the 2nd placed man and lady to feature in the final had to be decided on count back beteeen Kish & Greg and then on count back plus a racquet spin between Tess and Caryl!
The end result of all of this was a final between: Greg & Carey v David & Caryl
At the third time of asking we actually managed to play the 60th KIT this morning!
The players involved were: Arthur, Ken, Andy & David + Rosie, Sue, Gill & Angela.
It was great fun (as usual!) and the final ended up as:
Arthur & Rosie v David & Gill
The final itself was a very close affair with massively long rallies.
It was a lovely match to watch and it looked like it might be heading for a tie break, until David & Gill, on a match point, were the beneficiaries of a dramatic net cord.
We had another block of two months for your photos this time.
Here are all your "Metal" submssions for you to enjoy!
Sue headed across to Ireland for these two:
I am going to give you all until the end of the year (Oct/Nov/Dec) for your next topic.
....and, by special request (to concide with an upcoming trip to a candle inspired event), your topic for these 3 months will be:
"Candles"
