It was the time of the week when the players from the BSTC gather for the next stage of the tennis calendar, 4 courts were all being used with Luke Mayes, Daniel Mayes, Simon Mayes, Simon Hardie, Ian Raftery, Eamonn Martin Jnr, Eamonn Martin Snr and Paul Hodges being the top players gunning for success.
This week saw some of the best tennis yet from all of the players competing, in which saw a top field of players including world Number 1 Ian Raftery, vying to hold his number one ranking and hoping to pull away from the pack, Simon Hardie, gaining pace towards second place, Daniel Mayes, looking at his all time best looking at taking on the top 2, and then there was Luke Mayes who has been in a real mess recently with the worst tennis of his career being played who needed points quick to close the big gap between his 4th spot and the 3rd.
Eamonn Martin Jnr, a player feared by all and in full flight of his comeback with his outright damaging power and accuracy of his all round tennis.
Then there was Paul Hodges who was searching for points to keep his dream alive with Simon Mayes and Eamonn Martin Snr still search for there first ranking points with a real rivallary gathering between the 2.
The Pick Of Round one saw the two top crowd pullers Luke Mayes and Simon Hardie, this was a huge match in terms of players playing and points needed a real 10 pointer, in which should have been a routine win for Simon Hardie it was Luke Mayes that showed amazing class and destructive play with major signs of the player he once was throttling Simon early on gaining a 5 – 1 lead, then slipping a little but then pulling of an impressive 6 – 3 win.
Round 2 Pick was Simon Mayes beating Paul Hodges 6 – 0 in which saw Simon pick up his first points of the season in devastating fashion walloping Paul Hodges left right and centre, Simon Mayes playing the best tennis of his life rarely losing a point hitting winner after winner, Paul Hodges just didn’t have the game to beat his opponent on this day really looking downbeat after his match he commented “I just don’t understand, I worked hard for this match, the coach got me in real good shape but I just didn’t know what to do out there” it was later reported wild boy Hodges was on a late night bender after a bust up with his coach.
And round 3 saw the biggest match of the BSTC yet Simon Hardie Vs Eamonn Martin Jnr, after the recent comeback from wonder kid Eamonn Martin Jnr with his new passion for the game, with the whole of the BSTC players looking increasingly worried of him saw Simon Hardie utilising everything from his game match martin Jnr shot by shot, with the match drawing to a close at 5 – 5 with 3 minutes remaining Eamonn Martin Serving for 3 points saw Simon Hardie play his best tennis yet shocking and stunning Eamonn Martin breaking him to love 6 – 5 Simon Hardie.
Ian Raftery losing his number one spot to Simon Hardie, Raftery completely not at his game, looking bored, tired and exhausted, Showing the media why exactly they label him as “LAZY IAN”.
Winner of week 3 is Luke Mayes who had done all he could possibly do this week in preparation for this week, playing amazing tennis all night stunning Simon Hardie in the first round, Beating Eamonn Martin Snr in the second with Eamonn Martin Snr playing some of the greatest tennis of his life and beating his father, Simon Mayes, 6 – 2 in impressive fashion.
Congratulations Luke Mayes
A special mention must go to Eamonn Martin Snr who flew in straight from Dublin, Ireland after a testing new Tennis trainers for K Swiss.
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