Melbourn won 20-4

The 1sts picked up a maximum 20 point haul in their Cambridge Squash League Division 1 clash with bottom side Ely 1sts in Melbourn’s penultimate match before the Christmas break.
Melbourn approached the fixture in determined fashion after suffering a series of frustratingly narrow losses in recent weeks, each by 3 strings to 2, with some of the individual rubbers in those also ending 3-2 the wrong way from Melbourn’s perspective. That was reversed in this fixture as both Vinod Duraikan (3) and Miles Jeanneret (4) ended on the right side of encounters that went the distance, Vinod going all the way to a deciding game tie-break before seeing off Ben Mitchell whilst Miles found a second wind in his deciding game after Jamie Woor had pegged back from being 2-1 up.
Either side of those Melbourn picked up comprehensive wins as Marrk Oppen (5) cruised away from Chris Hornby to win 3-0, whilst Chris Shaw (2) was always in control of his match as he won all three of his games with Chris Purkiss 11-3. Matt Sampson completed the whitewash with another 3-0 win, taking two games by comfortable scorelines then seeing off a fight-back from Jack White to wrap things up in a game three tie-break that nipped any comeback in the bud.