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Roehampton Club Men’s Team win the recent iPadel Finals at We Are Derby

Roehampton Club Men’s squad for the finals weekend:

Craig de Silva (Captain), Nick Yates, George Palmer, Arthur Olney, Jack Hazlewood and Bojan Jelovac.

 

The first round was against Oxshott 3rd Team. This was a good fixture to start the finals weekend and both Roehampton Club pairs won comfortably.

 

The quarter final match was against the home side of We are Padel Derby. Craig and George won fairly easily and then Arthur and Nick had a tough match losing narrowly. This meant the outcome of the match was to be decided on a 10-point tiebreaker with a player from each pair having to play together.

 

Craig and Arthur played together and didn’t have a good start, going 9-6 down. At this point Roehampton Club was facing elimination from the competition and going home early. Digging deep, not allowing themselves to make any mistakes and point by point, Craig and Arthur pulled the score back and somehow ended up winning 5 points in a row to take the match and get through to the next round. It was unbelievably nerve-wracking.

 

The semi final was against Middlesbrough. Both matches were fairly straight forward taking Roehampton Club to the final.

Huddersfield were the opponents for the final. Huddersfield have had Padel courts for over 10 years and so were an experienced team and very strong. Craig and Arthur played first, playing a great first set, winning comfortably and during a close second set one of the opponents became injured. This meant Roehampton Club won the rubber.

 

Jack and Bojan then played the other pair. They started very slowly with the opposing pair playing some excellent Padel. They lost the first set 6-2 but then fought hard and playing incredibly well and took the second set 6-0. An amazing contrast in set scores. Another tiebreak to decide their tie. The first point was epic with all players playing some amazing shots but Roehampton Club lost that point, and remained behind through the tie-break, narrowly losing it.

 

The fate of the entire tournament would then come down to a shootout Championship tiebreak with one player from each pair playing in it. Craig and Jack would play together in this. Due to the injury of one of the Huddersfield players, their combination for this shootout meant one of their players was playing on their unnatural side.

 

Roehampton Club made a strong and solid start, keeping a healthy lead throughout the tiebreak winning 10-4, and with it, successfully defending the title. What a tournament and what a result!

 

The standard of the event had gone up considerably within a year and so it was an impressive performance, showing how much Padel is improving and thriving at Roehampton Club. Long may it continue. Congratulations to the team and all involved over the iPadel season.