WASHINGTON 5, CENTRAL 2
Central took the number one positions in both singles and doubles, but #2 Washington took the rest in a 5-2 win on the road Monday. There were adjustments to the Central line up with Claudia Feilmeyer & Xia Xiong moving up to second doubles from their normal spot at third. They almost pulled off an upset pushing Chloe Yang and Karia Chang to three sets, the only match to go three sets. The final margin in the third set in that match was the razor thin two points.
SINGLES
1. May Garvey, C def KaLia Xiong 21-10, 21-9
2. Eh Ni Mor, W def Malee Yang 21-11, 21-9
3. Be Be Say, W def Annika Tuma 21-16, 21-15
4. Jansaree Na, W def Ki Seng Xiong 21-13, 21-10
DOUBLES
1. Wamee Vang/Xiong Vang, C def Wah Lah Paw/Enna Say 21-11, 21-10
2. ChloeYang/Karia Chang, W def Claudia Feilmeyer/Xia Xiong 21-18, 16-21, 21-19
3. Nyo Nyo Sein/Pa Shia Vang, W def Jenny Lee/Pader Thao 21-10, 21-15
BY THE NUMBERS
SINGLES
Matches: Washington 3-1 .750
Games: Washington 6-2 .750
points: Washington 145-116 .556
decided by 10+: Washington 3-2 .600
decided by 3-: none
margin: Washington 3.625
DOUBLES
Matches: Washington 2-1 .667
Games: Washington 4-3 .571
points: Central 125-121 .508
decided by 10+: Central 2-1 .667
decided by 3-: Washington 2-0 1.000
margin: Central 0.571
FIRST SINGLES
may GARVEY 2, kalia XIONG 0
(21-10, 21-9)
#3 May Garvey swept Kalia Xiong in a fast game that just one more winner than error points. This game was interesting in that there wasn’t a lot of action for winners on the back line. Only three clears combined ended up as points. Most of the action hovered around the net. Both players traded drops with Garvey connecting on six compared to Xiong’s one.
Garvey took the first run of four in the first to take a 6-2 lead. Run number two, this time five points, pushed her out to a 15-5 margin. The first set provided more winners for Garvey with 13. That would drop to eight in the second set. For some unknown reason I had one more point for Garvey in this set. Garvey blew the set open with a huge run of 11 in the second set (13-2). Three of the first four points in that run came on drops, two to the racquet side. Five of the last six points in that initial run came on Xiong errors. Three came on the second stroke indicating an issue with the return.
| Category | GARVEY | XIONG |
| Side out | 9/14-.643 | 5/15-.333 |
| 3+ Runs | 5 | 1 |
| Longest point string | 11 | 4 |
| Service points | 29 | 7 |
| Overall points | 43 | 20 |
| Points after 11 | 21 | 13 |
| Points after own errors | 5 | 8 |
| Strokes | 152 | 64 |
| Strokes per point | 3.535 | 3.200 |
| 5+ rallies | 10 | 3 |
| 2- rallies | 13 | 7 |
| WINNERS | 21 | 11 |
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Blocks | 0 | 1 |
| Clears | 1 | 2 |
| Drives | 2 | 3 |
| Drops | 6 | 1 |
| Soft drives | 2 | 2 |
| Smashes | 7 | 2 |
| ERRORS | 9 | 22 |
| Deep | 0 | 3 |
| Net | 2 | 12 |
| Wide | 6 | 5 |
| Serve | 1 | 2 |
| WINNER LOCATION | ||
| Back line | 4 | 1 |
| Middle | 8 | 4 |
| Front line | 8 | 4 |
| Left | 14 | 3 |
| Right | 6 | 6 |
| W:E Ratio | 2.333 | 0.500 |
| Margin | 11.50 | |
| Set Point % | 2/2-1.000 | |
| Time | 10:59.49 |