Singles Handicap Cup 2019-2020
It may be 18 months late but at long last on Friday night the 2019- 2020 Handicap Singles trophy for the Sunderland league was decided in a pulsating evening at the Beacon of Light, where the semis finals and final were played.
Durham City Scorpions had two players left in the competition but unfortunately they were drawn against each other and their initial score was playing from scratch and because they play for the same team for Durham they have a great friendship and played in a superb sporting manner, complimenting each others shots and Harry Veitch in his languid easy playing style eventually overcame Oliver Wilkinson who played his usual high tempo attacking game over 3 ends.
The other semi final was between David Byers ( East BoldonAmigos) who had to give 10 points start to Howard McCain of St Gabriels C. The 10 point start was too much for David, who although troubled Howard constantly with his spin serves and his aggressive forehand drives proved too much for David to overcome and Howard won 3-1.
This set up the final between Howard who was also in the previous years final and Harry with the Durham player having a 6 point start.
Howard was always going to have a tough uphill battle to reduce the six point deficit and Harry looked relatively at ease and was eager to get the game over and even though Howard won as many points in rallies as Harry he still couldn’t manage to pull back the start at any time during the match resulting in a 3-0 victory for Harry.
