Stamford Tennis Club

On Saturday 24th September, in a late afternoon match, the 2011 Ladies Championship Final was played between Isabel Chedd and Susie Archer. With both ladies typically playing a solid rallying game from the baseline this was always likely to be a close match with long baseline rallies and it didn’t disappoint. Isabel took a very tight first set 6 games to 4. At the start of the second set Susie changed her tactics, moving forward and trying to dominate the rallies from the net. This appeared to pay dividends initially but Isabel was soon counterpunching with some lovely passing shots. At 4-3 up in the second set it looked like Susie was going to win the set and take the match to a third, deciding set, but Isabel fought back, broke Susie’s serve to level at four all and from there finished the stronger, closing out the set 6-4 to win her first Ladies Singles Club Championship.