After beating Park Langley a few weeks ago our Men's 1 played our second Aegon match this afternoon vs Bexley 2.

After a singles win from myself and Dan, Tom played an unbelievable singles rubber to beat Bexley's top seed.

Going into the doubles with a 3-1 lead, myself and Tom paired up at number 1 and secured a good win with Dan and Timur narrowly losing their doubles 11-9 in the championship tiebreaker.

So overall a 4-2 win and two victories out of two in our first year in Aegon against very strong teams.

The team was myself, Tom, Timur and Dan

The Tie lasted close to 5 hours with plenty of ups and downs.

We played Park Langley’s first team which is the club that our girl Emma Raducanu plays at.

In the first round Dan, Timur, Andy and myself each played a singles rubber.
We won 2 and lost 2.

In the doubles round, I paired up with Timur and Dan and Andy joined forces.
The Rodrigues brothers secured a victory in a championship tiebreaker after splitting the first two sets. Unfortunately, Timur and I lost 13-11 in our championship tiebreaker.

Score 3-3!

We were thinking we were done with the tie, resulting in a draw and that we could go home and get a cup of tea.

HOWEVER, their captain informed us that we would have to play a shoot out to decide the tie.

What happens is that you pick two singles players to play a championship tiebreaker first to 10 and if one team doesn't win both tiebreakers then you play a deciding doubles championship tiebreaker using the players that didn't play the singles tiebreaker.

SO MUCH TENSION!

Here we go.
I lost my championship tiebreaker, but Dan the MVP won his rather comfortably.

So there we were after 4hr 30mins of tennis without a winner. My back was killing me at this point!

Andy and Timur teamed up and managed to get to 8-9 down. We had to win the next point!

Andy fired two missiles from the serve on successive points to give us a 10-9 lead. On the next point, Andrew Rodrigues steps up and fired a gargantuan forehand crosscourt which forced an error from the opponent and secured us our first win.

The overall score was 6-6 (two points for every rubber won) and then 2-1 to us in the shootout.