The Oaks & District Men's Teams have got off to a flying start with a win in their first matches of the 2011 Men's Doubles Summer League.

The first team won their fixture against Oadby (Granville) IV 8-1 playing away.  The first team are currently playing in division 6B.  This success early in the season means that our team is currently top of the division thanks to a better games percentage than the the other clubs (see results table here ) - long may this continue.

The second team won their d...
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The men's 2nd team finished the season with an away match against Holwell Sports.

We had a full team for the night Colin Cockayne, Marcus Clarke, Steve Bloor, Dave Woolcock, Adam Cockayne and Dave Cockayne.  But unfortunately when we arrived at Holwell they only had 4 players that turned up so that put us up 3-0 from the start. So that just meant that each of us would play two matches during the night. 

We had a good start with both Colin & Marcus winning their match 9-5 and Steve & Dave a...

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More success for the Men's 2nd Team following their match against Market Bosworth 3....

 

The team for this fixture was Marcus Clarke, Colin Cockayne, Alex Woolcock, Dave Woolcock, Steve Bloor & Dave Cockayne  - just one change from the previous winning team with Adam not being available.

The 1st 3 matches went well and we were looking good with 2 matches being won and only loosing the one.

Then in the 2nd set of 3 matches the tales were turned by Market Bosworth with them winning 2-1.  ...

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Congratulations to the members of the Men's 2nd Team who recorded their first win in over 3 years,  defeating Hinckley 6-3 at home.  (The ladies might even forgive you for 'stealing' our match night :-) )

Everything started well and Oaks were up 6-0 & 5-0  in two of the first sets but then Hinckley came back into these matches. In the end Oaks took 2 out of the first 3 sets.

In the 2nd round it was looking a bit closer with one of the matches going to a tie break which Hinckley won along with ...
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