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Clifton pair win the Real Tennis Cuttermull Cup 2022
Saturday, 15 October 2022
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Nick Esses (PH 1979) and Harry Swindon (SH 2014) played in the recent Cuttermull Cup Real Tennis tournament at MURTC (Middlesex University, Hendon) A thoroughly enjoyable event and out of 5 matches played they didn’t loose 1 set! Cattermull Cup was also contested in October 2022 at the Middlesex Real Tennis Club . The OCs were represented by Nick Esses ( PH 1979) and Harry Swindon ( SH 2014) . In 2021 Nick and Harry were defeated in the Finals by a pair from Winchester who they had beaten in the pool matches . In 2022 , Nick and Harry made sure that this was to be their year for winning the Cattermull cup. In the semi- finals , they beat the Marlborough Pair 6/4 6/3 with Marlborough not being able to contain the hard hitting Clifton pair .In the finals , Harry and Nick came up against the pair from Harrow who they had narrowly beaten in the pool matches . In the finals Nick and Harry, using their handicap advantage to great effect , proved to be too strong for Harrow, winning out 6/2 6/1 . This was the third tome that Clifton had won the Cattermull Jeff Avery ( ET 1964 ) and Miles Buckinghamshire (OH 1963) in 2010 and Johnny Beale( ST 2005 ) and Will Greig ( WaH 2005 ) in 2011. Congratulations to Nick and Harry for their convincing win without dropping a set . |