Post by David Williams on Dec 9, 2013 14:40:22 GMT
Please find attached the completed draw and scores for the individual event.
Graeme Patullo has kindly written up the whole event from his unique perspective, and will post it below. I'd like to personally thank him not only for writing the report, but also for his extensive efforts in helping with the tournament by marking many more matches than we would every expect anyone to mark.
I have entered the individual results into ResultsZone under 'DDSRA Individual Events'. Although the rankings may display the results in the wrong order, so far as I can tell their final calculations are correct. It wasn't designed for this sort of event but it seems to have worked fairly well.
Completed draw and detailed results:
INDIVIDUAL DRAW 13-14_FINAL.pdf (386.32 KB)
INDIVIDUAL DRAW 13-14_FINAL.xlsx (64.84 KB)
For the benefit of anyone viewing from a device unable to open the attachment (or word docs in general), I have taken the liberty of reproducing it below in full:
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DDSRA Individual Tournament Report: 23 – 25 November, David Lloyd, Monifieth
By Graeme Patullo
An impressive 25 players enter the 2013 DDSRA Individual Tournament held at David Lloyd Centre, Monifieth.
With the exceptionally large entry, qualifying rounds were played on the Friday evening. Most notable matches/results from the qualifiers were:
• Ray Kelday’s three games to 1 defeat of Graeme Patullo - after losing the first game 0-9
• Shane Lindsay’s 4-game tussle with the fast-improving Ken Daly (9-6 in the 4th)
With the field now whittled down to 16 players, the 1st Round ‘proper’ commenced on Saturday morning. With so many entrants, it was inevitable that there would be some close matches between similarly-ranked players.
The pick of the 1st-round matches came in the match between Joe Ghaemi (Dundee University; No.6 seed) and Mark James (Montrose; No.11 seed). Both players enjoy hard-hitting squash and in five closely-fought games, Mark took final game, 9-5.
All of the top-4 seeds progressed with 3-0 wins.
In the ¼-finals, there were some more closely-fought matches between the top players. Again, the pick of the matches involved neither of the top two seeds. Instead, the excitement came in the matches between Tom Adams (no.5 seed) and Adam Robertson (no.4 seed). Adam, after taking the 1st game had a game-ball in the 2nd but failed to capitalise, losing it 9-10. He fought hard to win the third game 9-8. However, his exertions from the first three games seemed to have taken their toll as Tom’s gritty style won out to win the 4th game 9-0 and the 5th 9-3.
The ‘other’ match-of-the-round, was an all-Montrose affair. Mark James, after his ‘battle’ with Joe in the previous round played DDSRA’s version of Peter Pan, Boyd Kydd. The first two games were shared (9-7 to Mark followed by a 10-8 to Boyd). The third game was to prove decisive. Boyd took an early lead only for Mark to claw back to 6-all. At this point, Mark’s extra power seemed to dominate and he stormed to a 9-6 win (2 games to 1 lead). The 4th was simpler for Mark. After taking an early lead, he never looked in trouble, winning the 4th game 9-4.
Sunday morning saw the first semi-final between top-seed, Gregor Newton (Abbotsford) and Tom Adam. It was Gregor who started quickly (or was it Tom who started slowly?) racing to a 2 games to nil lead (9-1, 9-1). Tom battled hard in the 3rd but Gregor was always in control, taking it 9-6.
The second semi-final was again an ‘all-Montrose’ affair, this time Peter Buchan coming up against Mark James. All four games were closely-fought with the players sharing the first two games (9/6 to Peter, 9-7 to Mark). The next two games were both won with 9-6 scores - with Peter taking them both for a 3-1 victory.
The keen-anticipated final between the top-2 seeds, Gregor (Abbotsford) and Peter (Montrose) didn’t live up to its billing. Peter’s tougher route to the final seemed to have sapped his energy and it was Gregor who dominated most of the rallies. Peter’s retrieving skills were tested to the full as Gregor pushed him to the four corners of the court whilst, at the same time, dominated the T-area.
Gregor took all three games to become the well-deserved DDSRA champion for 2013.
Whilst the Main event was progressing, players who had lost in the qualifying/first rounds were contesting the Plate event. Again, Graeme Patullo failed to progress past the qualifying round (therefore missing out on the first round of both events!), losing meekly to the wily Ken Daly in 3 games – a significant result for Ken (as we will read later).
Pick of the Plate quarter-finals was the match between Abbotsford’s Ray Kelday and Forthill’s Shane Lindsay. With lets and strokes liberally sprinkled throughout, and the referee/umpire/marker being tested fully, the match was poised at two games each. The 5th game was a classic! Again both players tested the marker as they progressed to “9-all”. With neither player appearing keen to win the match, after both had failed to convert match-balls, it was left to Shane to finally end the match with a deft drop-shot to progress into the semis, 10-9 in the 5th. The remaining quarter-finals were all 3-0 victories.
Semi-final #1 saw Dave Williams progress without hitting a ball as Ken Daly’s body finally packed up. After three bruising matches in less than 24 hours, Ken decided to call a halt to his pain. Semi-final #2 took a little longer as Shane defeated David Brown in three quick games 9-3, 9-0, 9-2.
The final was brilliantly marked as both players, expert in the finer points of the game of squash artistry, danced around the court. The mercurial Dave Williams (RAF Leuchars) took the first game narrowly (9-7) before easing to a 9-4 win in the second game. Shane fought hard in the third as both players recognised its importance. At 8-all, Dave called “1” to hand Shane a “game ball”. However, Shane was left swinging at fresh air as Dave’s thumping drive whistled past him, giving Dave “8-all, match ball”. Dave’s tactics seemed to have changed as he went for an audacious drop-shot to end the match. It failed – and Shane was again serving for the game. This time he triumphed as Dave again failed with an impossible drop-shot taking the match into a fourth game – or so we thought.
Sadly, for all involved, Dave announced that, due to injury he would be unable to continue. Shane therefore became DDSRA Plate Champion – outlasting all of the other entrants.
The Ladies event had fewer entrants than expected but Jennifer McArtney and Tricia Watson progressed to the final. The first two games were both won narrowly (9-6, 10-8) by Jennifer before she raced to a decisive 9-1 victory in the third to claim the Ladies DDSRA title.
With all the excitement of the ‘Main’ and ‘Plate’ events, one could be forgiven for over-looking the handicap event. Despite the note-pads, lecture notes and reference books littering the off-court viewing areas, matches seemed to continue from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon. Nobody really knew how the scoring system actually worked (“point-per-rally” and “deduct two points for winning a game” etc) and, I don’t think that anyone really cared. In the end, everyone who participated seemed to have a whale of a time, playing plenty of matches against each other. In the end, a Combined winner (Tricia Watson) and a Ladies winner (Courtney Vijars) was announced.
In summary, an excellent weekend was had by everyone who took part. Thanks to all who marked/refereed any matches. Congratulations to all the tournament winners. An especially huge “Thank You” to Dave Williams (for devising a draw so ingenious that even Einstein would have required scientists from CERN to help him understand it’s full complexities) and Jennifer McArtney (for ensuring that everyone had plenty squash and that all matches were started (approximately) on time – and for her endless supplies of Jelly Babies and Jelly Beans (for energy, of course).
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Graeme Patullo has kindly written up the whole event from his unique perspective, and will post it below. I'd like to personally thank him not only for writing the report, but also for his extensive efforts in helping with the tournament by marking many more matches than we would every expect anyone to mark.
I have entered the individual results into ResultsZone under 'DDSRA Individual Events'. Although the rankings may display the results in the wrong order, so far as I can tell their final calculations are correct. It wasn't designed for this sort of event but it seems to have worked fairly well.
Completed draw and detailed results:
INDIVIDUAL DRAW 13-14_FINAL.pdf (386.32 KB)
INDIVIDUAL DRAW 13-14_FINAL.xlsx (64.84 KB)
For the benefit of anyone viewing from a device unable to open the attachment (or word docs in general), I have taken the liberty of reproducing it below in full:
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DDSRA Individual Tournament Report: 23 – 25 November, David Lloyd, Monifieth
By Graeme Patullo
An impressive 25 players enter the 2013 DDSRA Individual Tournament held at David Lloyd Centre, Monifieth.
With the exceptionally large entry, qualifying rounds were played on the Friday evening. Most notable matches/results from the qualifiers were:
• Ray Kelday’s three games to 1 defeat of Graeme Patullo - after losing the first game 0-9
• Shane Lindsay’s 4-game tussle with the fast-improving Ken Daly (9-6 in the 4th)
With the field now whittled down to 16 players, the 1st Round ‘proper’ commenced on Saturday morning. With so many entrants, it was inevitable that there would be some close matches between similarly-ranked players.
The pick of the 1st-round matches came in the match between Joe Ghaemi (Dundee University; No.6 seed) and Mark James (Montrose; No.11 seed). Both players enjoy hard-hitting squash and in five closely-fought games, Mark took final game, 9-5.
All of the top-4 seeds progressed with 3-0 wins.
In the ¼-finals, there were some more closely-fought matches between the top players. Again, the pick of the matches involved neither of the top two seeds. Instead, the excitement came in the matches between Tom Adams (no.5 seed) and Adam Robertson (no.4 seed). Adam, after taking the 1st game had a game-ball in the 2nd but failed to capitalise, losing it 9-10. He fought hard to win the third game 9-8. However, his exertions from the first three games seemed to have taken their toll as Tom’s gritty style won out to win the 4th game 9-0 and the 5th 9-3.
The ‘other’ match-of-the-round, was an all-Montrose affair. Mark James, after his ‘battle’ with Joe in the previous round played DDSRA’s version of Peter Pan, Boyd Kydd. The first two games were shared (9-7 to Mark followed by a 10-8 to Boyd). The third game was to prove decisive. Boyd took an early lead only for Mark to claw back to 6-all. At this point, Mark’s extra power seemed to dominate and he stormed to a 9-6 win (2 games to 1 lead). The 4th was simpler for Mark. After taking an early lead, he never looked in trouble, winning the 4th game 9-4.
Sunday morning saw the first semi-final between top-seed, Gregor Newton (Abbotsford) and Tom Adam. It was Gregor who started quickly (or was it Tom who started slowly?) racing to a 2 games to nil lead (9-1, 9-1). Tom battled hard in the 3rd but Gregor was always in control, taking it 9-6.
The second semi-final was again an ‘all-Montrose’ affair, this time Peter Buchan coming up against Mark James. All four games were closely-fought with the players sharing the first two games (9/6 to Peter, 9-7 to Mark). The next two games were both won with 9-6 scores - with Peter taking them both for a 3-1 victory.
The keen-anticipated final between the top-2 seeds, Gregor (Abbotsford) and Peter (Montrose) didn’t live up to its billing. Peter’s tougher route to the final seemed to have sapped his energy and it was Gregor who dominated most of the rallies. Peter’s retrieving skills were tested to the full as Gregor pushed him to the four corners of the court whilst, at the same time, dominated the T-area.
Gregor took all three games to become the well-deserved DDSRA champion for 2013.
Whilst the Main event was progressing, players who had lost in the qualifying/first rounds were contesting the Plate event. Again, Graeme Patullo failed to progress past the qualifying round (therefore missing out on the first round of both events!), losing meekly to the wily Ken Daly in 3 games – a significant result for Ken (as we will read later).
Pick of the Plate quarter-finals was the match between Abbotsford’s Ray Kelday and Forthill’s Shane Lindsay. With lets and strokes liberally sprinkled throughout, and the referee/umpire/marker being tested fully, the match was poised at two games each. The 5th game was a classic! Again both players tested the marker as they progressed to “9-all”. With neither player appearing keen to win the match, after both had failed to convert match-balls, it was left to Shane to finally end the match with a deft drop-shot to progress into the semis, 10-9 in the 5th. The remaining quarter-finals were all 3-0 victories.
Semi-final #1 saw Dave Williams progress without hitting a ball as Ken Daly’s body finally packed up. After three bruising matches in less than 24 hours, Ken decided to call a halt to his pain. Semi-final #2 took a little longer as Shane defeated David Brown in three quick games 9-3, 9-0, 9-2.
The final was brilliantly marked as both players, expert in the finer points of the game of squash artistry, danced around the court. The mercurial Dave Williams (RAF Leuchars) took the first game narrowly (9-7) before easing to a 9-4 win in the second game. Shane fought hard in the third as both players recognised its importance. At 8-all, Dave called “1” to hand Shane a “game ball”. However, Shane was left swinging at fresh air as Dave’s thumping drive whistled past him, giving Dave “8-all, match ball”. Dave’s tactics seemed to have changed as he went for an audacious drop-shot to end the match. It failed – and Shane was again serving for the game. This time he triumphed as Dave again failed with an impossible drop-shot taking the match into a fourth game – or so we thought.
Sadly, for all involved, Dave announced that, due to injury he would be unable to continue. Shane therefore became DDSRA Plate Champion – outlasting all of the other entrants.
The Ladies event had fewer entrants than expected but Jennifer McArtney and Tricia Watson progressed to the final. The first two games were both won narrowly (9-6, 10-8) by Jennifer before she raced to a decisive 9-1 victory in the third to claim the Ladies DDSRA title.
With all the excitement of the ‘Main’ and ‘Plate’ events, one could be forgiven for over-looking the handicap event. Despite the note-pads, lecture notes and reference books littering the off-court viewing areas, matches seemed to continue from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon. Nobody really knew how the scoring system actually worked (“point-per-rally” and “deduct two points for winning a game” etc) and, I don’t think that anyone really cared. In the end, everyone who participated seemed to have a whale of a time, playing plenty of matches against each other. In the end, a Combined winner (Tricia Watson) and a Ladies winner (Courtney Vijars) was announced.
In summary, an excellent weekend was had by everyone who took part. Thanks to all who marked/refereed any matches. Congratulations to all the tournament winners. An especially huge “Thank You” to Dave Williams (for devising a draw so ingenious that even Einstein would have required scientists from CERN to help him understand it’s full complexities) and Jennifer McArtney (for ensuring that everyone had plenty squash and that all matches were started (approximately) on time – and for her endless supplies of Jelly Babies and Jelly Beans (for energy, of course).
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