Shottery B maintained their winning start to the season with success over Henley A. Gareth Hepworth was their in-form player acquiring a treble without the loss of a game. He then partnered Tony Remes to make it a clean sweep for the evening by gaining an easy victory in the doubles. Remes himself recorded a brace, but was unable to get the better of Geoff Shepherd who took the honours in straight games. The visitors' captain then added to his success by overturning a two-game disadvantage to defeat his opposite number Tim Fell over the distance. Unusually Fell had to be content with a single victory after also falling victim, without reply, to Peter Quince. However Henley were unable to add to their tally and so finished on the wrong end of a 7-3 scoreline.

Shottery's third string went home with the same margin of success when they visited Ashorne. The evening began as a struggle for them, but only because there was another event at the venue and so parking was hard to come by! However, once proceedings got underway, their in-form talisman Rob Poole led the way by acquiring his fourth treble of the campaign. New signing Ken Southwell was also unbeaten, despite being taken to the wire by John Hunt who twice took the lead before narrowly losing out 9-11 in the decider. The two Shottery players subsequently combined to achieve victory in the doubles. However the improving David Lincoln-Lewis was unfortunate not to add to their tally after a close contest with Mark Kingham who thereby got on the card along with Hunt and George Mudie. 

West Warwicks also came away with a 7-3 win when they made the trip to Royal Mail. The Postmen failed to deliver in what was their first fixture in their new Alderminster home. Nello Mauri, so often the backbone of their successes, made a slow start to his season losing out to Alison Stewart for the first time in a decade. Stewart delivered an unbeaten performance for the Solihull side despite having to overcome an early deficit against Wilf Chan. She also enjoyed victory  in the doubles with Jim Ferguson in the most one-sided match of the evening which saw them drop a total of just twelve points against the Postmen's combination. Ferguson also chalked up a treble, although he was involved in the only match to go the distance where, despite losing the first two games, he recovered to narrowly edge home 11-9 in the decider against Malcolm Heritage.
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