{"id":2712,"date":"2007-11-20T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T13:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2016-09-10T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:39:09","slug":"cambridge-make-a-great-start-to-their-premier-league-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/cambridge-make-a-great-start-to-their-premier-league-title-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge make a great start to their Premier League Title Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third National League Premier Division match of the season took place at Grange Road on Thursday 8 November. Once again Cambridge 1 is represented by <Rob Fahey, the world champion, and his new partner is Cambridge University captain Jamie Douglas.\n \nCambridge had already won their first two matches, away at the Royal Tennis Club (2\/1) and at home to Oxford (3\/0). The third match was against Prested Hall&#8217;s team of Bryn Sayers and Ricardo Smith. Jamie's match against Ricardo was first up, and this was a tough game between two well-matched players. Although he lost a close first set, Jamie came back strongly in the second and looked at one point as if he could even things up, but Ricardo continued to play calmly against the fierce onslaught and closed the match out 6\/4, 6\/3.\n\nOn paper, Rob's match against Bryn looked to be an easy win, and the score of 6\/1, 6\/3 suggests that it was, but Bryn put up a spirited defence and his flat two-handed backhand caused Rob some problems. Rob, preparing for the British Open this week, showed just why he is the top player with a terrific display of accurate power tennis. \n\nIn the doubles, we were treated to the unusual sight of Rob playing at the front, with Jamie trying to live up to his instructions of &#8220;Don&#8217;t miss anything!&#8221; He missed very little and Cambridge won an exciting rubber 8\/5, to win the match 2\/1. \n\nThe <strong>next<\/strong> Premier League match at home is <strong>Cambridge 1 versus Burroughs 1<\/strong> on <strong>Thursday 6 December<\/strong>, followed by the <strong>Club Christmas Dinner<\/strong>. The approximate timings are:<br \/>\n6 pm &#8211; Jamie Douglas versus Rod McNaughtan<br \/> 7:15 &#8211; Rob Fahey versus Drew Lyons<br \/> 8:30 &#8211; Doubles<br \/> 9:30 &#8211; CURTC Christmas Dinner at the Rice Boat<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Abrahams, the owner of the Rice Boat in Newnham &#8211; serving excellent food from Kerala &#8211; has booked out his restaurant for us and has selected a special set meal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The special Christmas price to cover the whole evening: &pound;35, which includes <\/strong>Dedans or Sponsors room tickets and drinks, Dinner and drinks. Please book your tickets for the match, the dinner, or both with Kees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third National League Premier Division match of the season took place at Grange Road on Thursday 8 November. Once &hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/cambridge-make-a-great-start-to-their-premier-league-title-defence\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-membership","category-national-league","tag-rob-fahey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}