The Senior Vets Interpros were held last weekend in Sundays Well tennis club and even though the weather wasn't favourable the quality of tennis was still of a very high standard.
The matches were very competitve and the new format again proved it's worth in providing a very close fought battle to the end.
After the first afternoons play Munster and Leinster were tied on 11 matches each out of a possible 16.
Play began Saturday morning with all teams knowing there was still a lot of tennis to be played and 32 points up for grabs.
The new format doesn't have just one province playing another, it has three of the four age groups playing different provinces. This means until the last ball is hit on Saturday evening you don't know how you have done against any one province.
After the mornings matches, Leinster and Munster were still tied having picked up 12 points each.
With the afternoon session left it was all to play for and the Munster players were determined to defend the title for the first time in their history (we think!). Players and spectators alike spent the afternoon trying to figure out how the scores were tallying up. While we were able to calculate Munster's scores, finding out how Leinster were doing was proving a bit more difficult. This all added to the excitement.
Last year when Munster won, there were a few comments about our team being illegal as we played a few people down an age group. An argument which if you sit down and think about it, is quiet ridiculous as a player could be giving away as many as 9 years. How is that an advantage?
Well this year not only was the team legal but Munster retained their title by the narrowest of margins, two points.
This was a magnificent achievement and the plan now is to go for the hat-trick in Connaught next year. Well done to all.
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