NEW MATCHPLAY SINGLES CHAMPION IS A REAL ESSEX BOY

Each game in the MatchPlay is a two set affair with a tie-break. The round-robin stages determined the semi-finalists and there was a Plate competition too. The winners of three groups would go through to the semis along with the best runner-up. Group A was arguably the most open and contained two debutants, namely Essex’s John Fenton and all the way from the Royals in Tunbridge Wells, Paddy Rozier. Paddy did well to adjust to what was by his standards a slowish carpet to take second spot in the group behind the increasingly confident Tony Down from Bristol. Though Down did lose out to Rozier in their head-to-head match on the tie-break.
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