In the first round of the Mixed, Jason Yung & Lucy Fletcher took on Yannick Tandy & Marta Chopnowska.
Jason has a habit of throwing himself around the court to successfully retrieve lost causes. He has some good heavy strokes too, and is very enthusiastic about his tennis. I have seen Yannick play friendly singles, and he looks very useful players. I know anything about the ladies in the match.
This match report was from Jason.
“Yannick had a wicked kick serve and Marta had a solid all round game. Lucy got in to a good rhythm on the return of serve, however she and Jason could not do enough to get more games. There were some incredible net play points but in the end Yannick and Marta were the better pair.”
Or put another way, Yannick and Marta won 6-1 6-2.
In the Men’s Doubles, Jeff Fine & Geoff Isaacs took on the third seeds, Olly Turner & Joe Rigal, both accustomed to playing tennis at the first and second team level.
Olly & Joe won 6-1 6-0.
The first Ladies’ Singles match of the tournament, Posy Frederick took on the third seed Jen Ananda-Rajan. Both have strong games, but Jen has had the extra responsibilities of motherhood over the past year, to distract her from tennis. Here is Jen’s match report:-
“Posy and Jen played their match down on the hard courts during the ladies’ 2nd team match Monday evening. Posy started the match very strongly, using her heavy topspin high bouncing ground strokes extremely effectively. Before Jen knew it she had lost the first set, but was able to counter and time the ball better in the second set which led to lots of long rallies and fun points. In the end, Posy’s consistency and court coverage was too good and Jen struggled to hold serve, with Posy breaking her at 4-5 for a 6-0 6-4 win.”
This is, of course, the first failure this year, in Sultan’s normally excellent seeding!
Peter Davies had to concede his Men’s Singles match to Joe Smouha as a result of a minor foot sprain. He still hopes to play in the other events later this week.
