This year it was The Melacca club's turn to host the 8th Straits Settlement Games 6th to 7th Dec. There were 6 games in the series, Football, Tennis, Table Tennis, Squash, Badminton, & Snooker.
The Melacca club's sports center is about 10 Kilometers out of town at lovely location on the seaside...
We were to play both our matches on Sunday... so we had a good opportunity to view the opposition when Singapore Swimming club played the Malacca club on Saturday. Their tie ended 4 - 3 in favor of Malacca, but was not quite completed because of rain.
On Sunday morning, our tennis team whacked Singapore 6 -1 with several kosongs delivered... and the 1 loss was also a very close tie break in the ladies doubles....
We had seen the previous day's match get interrupted by rain and we tried to get the Malacca folks to start early , but the best we could do was to get them to start 2 pair at 3 pm with the clouds already threatening...
It looked as though we were going to repeat the same treatment for Malacca as our first mixed doubles pair was up 3 - 0 and our veterans were up 4 - 1 when the rain began to come down and we had to abandon the match.
As all three teams had played one match , it fell to a countback to award PSC the tennis championship based on our 6 -1 result against Singapore Swimming Club...
So tennis delivered for the PSC...but in the end the Straits Settlement Trophy wound up as a tie between PSC and the Malacca club...so the cup stays at Malacca for 6 months and then will be sent to PSC.
To see more photos from our trip to Melaka, click here
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