St. Michael’s Hospice Charity – April Padel Tournament

📢 Padel Tournament Recap: Fast-paced Competition! 

It’s 11.30 a.m. Another wonderful sunny day at Aphrodite Hills Tennis Club. It’s not long before I have everything set up for the start of our first Padel Tournament. Stewart Johnson and I do the draw. There are twenty teams split into four leagues of five pairs. Each will play each other in a round robin format, the winners of each game receiving 3points. The games will be the first to 10 with alternate serves. The winners must win by a clear two points. The winners of each league would then go through to a straight knock out semi-final. In the event of a tie in a league the points difference will be taken into account. At 1.00 p.m the competition started. As Wyn Lewis officiated and called people to their courts, I busied myself trying to keep track of the scores and recording the winners.

There were some great battles going on and as we approached the final games only League Four appeared to have a clear winning pair with 9 points Stewart Johnson and Roman Nesterenko, our first semi-finalists. The other three leagues went to the wire and the points difference had to be taken. League Three was between Oliver Lehmann and Paul Reibold tying with Dudi Avraham and Roy Semann. Dudi and Roy qualified by just a two-point advantage, our second semi-finalists. In League Two we also had a two-way tie Sarah Symonds and Peter Rapp with Leandros Kostantinou and Sotoris Poullas. Sarah and Peter made it through by a 9-point advantage. The final group was the closest Leage One was a three-way tie Uwe Leichsenring and Nenad Havelock, Nibal Ghoussob and Varnavas Playbell, and finally Alexey Alekseev with Dima Michailov. Nibal and Varnavas qualified by a six-point difference.

Our Semi Finalsts were decided. Played on a straight knock out basis. Two hard fought matches but our finalists were decided Nibal Ghoussob and Varnavas Playbell would face Sarah Symonds and Peter Rapp.

The crowd gathered around Court No 1 in anticipation of the climax of the afternoon. Our referee Wyn Lewis took his place and the game started. It was a competitive match, but we had our eventual winners Nibal and Varnavas! The runners up and the winners were presented with their trophies (Kindly donated by Wyn). I personally met some wonderful people and hope to see them at our future events. Some people then made their way home, some drifted to the bar. Everyone seemed to be pleased with the day and we may well repeat the process in October.

We also raised in excess of €1,200.

A big thank you to everyone who turned up and supported the day. Special thanks to Anne Johnson, Stewart Johnson and of course the wonder from Wales, Wyn Lewis! 🌟🏆🌿

Your participation supported a great cause – The St. Michael’s Hospice Charity. We provide financial support and assistance to the Pasykaf Archangel Michael Hospice.
We help them to enhance life when it is needed most.