It’s Mudge/Hosey vs. Price/Chaloner In Cambridge Club Final After Marathon Sunday Action
By Rob Dinerman
Dateline November 20th --- The Cambridge Club was rocking Sunday afternoon as the round-robin portion of the 38th annual Cambridge Club Doubles concluded with a pair of exciting back-and-forth five-gamers that effectively became semifinals when all four competing teams went undefeated through Saturday’s action. In the end, Damien Mudge and Willie Hosey, finalists in their only prior foray as partners in St. Louis back in October 2007, out-lasted John Russell and Clive Leach (runners-up this past spring in the World Doubles) to qualify for the Monday-night final, where they will face Paul Price and Mark Chaloner, who themselves barely emerged victorious against Ben Gould and Chris Walker, with both matches lasting almost two hours.
All four players in the final have been past winners of this tournament, which has had a number of formats over the years, including a few early-2000’s editions in which, with the PSA singles tour fortuitously also in Toronto that week, an ISDA player was paired up with a PSA player. Chaloner and Price both had their initial competitive exposure to doubles occur as a result of this format, and both took to the game almost immediately en route to becoming fixtures on the ISDA circuit. This tournament kicks off an important part of the ISDA schedule, with two major New York metropolitan area tournaments, the Big Apple Open in Manhattan and the Briggs Cup in Westchester, occurring during the first two weekends of December following the Thanksgiving break.
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