Ealing beat Hurlingham 6-0

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26 Jun (GC - Tier 3 Bowl)

Quarter-final - Ealing v Hurlingham

Played 26th June 2025 at Ealing

Result - Ealing 6 Hurlingham 0 (with one rubber left unfinished at 1-1)

Game scores - in the Doubles match, Tony Elliott & Richard Barkey played Mark Wellby & Bertie Maxwell, match left uncompleted at one game each (7-4, 3-7). For the singles matches, see the attached Excel spreadsheet.

Short report - Ealing were pleased to host a Hurlingham team for a Quarter-final match in this new competition. Although the overall result looks rather one-sided, with Ealing not conceding even a single game in the six completed rubbers, we were contemplating a much tighter affair when the first doubles game was still locked at 4-4 after 75 minutes of highly competitive play ! Eventually the doubles reached 1 game each, so lunch was taken in the hope that (as proved the case) the decider might not need to be played. And the individual games were mostly close, with only two of the fourteen games being decided before hoop 10. The match was played in an exceptionally friendly and sporting spirit throughout, and Ealing's burgeoning reputation for lunch-time hospitality was given a further boost by Jane's superb cakes for dessert !