SACC hosted Valencienne Vipers on Saturday the 18th September 2021; unfortunately, the Vipers won by 2 wickets. On Sunday 19th September 2021 SACC did better against the Embassy, winning by 8 runs. Read on for full details.
We will be holding a Family Doubles tennis tournament on Sunday 26 September. The tournament and buffet (bring whatever you want) will run from 12 noon to 2.30 pm. Sign up here. Read on for the poster.
Read on for more things to do, including a continuation of the offer of a free lesson for prospective Section members.
Friendly football matches against outside teams started again on Sunday 3 October with a game against Les Italiens. This after almost a year's break thanks to Covid.
Last Sunday the score was a victory for Les Italiens 9-4.
It was a great game anyway (lots of goals) and we had players aged from 13 to 55 in our team.
This Sunday we are playing the Kerala Tuskers.
After a great game in glorious sunshine last Sunday, the scores were level at 4-4; it was decided to play on for a result, but after 10 minutes of extra time, the visitors, Kerala Tuskers, got a goal so won the 5-4. For the SAC there were some fabulous SAC goals from Arnaud, Taha and Luc. Read on for some photos! This Sunday we're playing FIFFA.
Last Sunday, the 17th we played FIFFA. Next Sunday (24/10) we play a game against Ludovic Cohen's XI. Read on for some photos of the FIFFA game.
Last Sunday, the 24th, SAC pulled off its first victory of the season with a nail-biting 7-6 win against the Ludovic Cohen XI.
Read on for pictures
On Sunday the 7th of November the SAC had a spirited match against Los Pipos, which the 1-7 scoreline surely did not fairly reflect SAC’s performance.
(Next Sunday we play Marly Belle Île)
Read on for pictures of the Los Pipos game
Last Sunday we played Les Italiens and unfortunately lost 2-8! This Sunday we'll try to do better against Arnaud Pâquier's XI.
On Sunday 11 July, SAC faced an XI put together by Shakeel to fill a scheduling gap. Despite Shakeel XI having a power-packed batting line-up, SAC's fast bowlers put on a terrific display and held the batting side to 118 runs. SAC produced some excellent batting to match that total with 4 wickets to spare.
On Wednesday 14 July, Bastille Day, Standard hosted the Pondy Eagles CC in Meudon. SAC won the toss and elected to bat. and despite a slow, wet outfield scored well leaving the Pondy Eagles 187 to win. Despite improving weather conditions, SAC's accurate bowling forced Pondy Eagles into mitakes that led to a SAC victory by 102 runs.
Having now won 5 games in a row, SAC are looking forward to continuing their good form against Thoiry and Chantilly this weekend, before hosting The Paris Knight Riders on Sunday 25th July.
Having now won 5 games in a row, SAC were looking forward to continuing their good form against Thoiry on Saturday and Chantilly away on Sunday. However, this was not to be. On Saturday SAC lost to a revitalised Thoiry by 6 wickets in the third of the John Hardy Shield matches, but, despite the result, for the first time in three years, the John Hardy Shield has returned to Standard having secured the series 2 matches to 1.
On Sunday, playing their first away match of the year away against Chantilly, SAC lost in the heat by 7 wickets. Read on for full details.
We are delighted to announce that the renovation of Court 3 has now been completed.
This has been a multi-step, 7-month process, led from start to finish by Raphaël Kahane, in coordination with the Tennis Committee.
We can now play on a state-of-the-art artificial surface (with a 10-year warranty). We look forward to receiving your feedback, so please grab your rackets and give it a try.
To maintain our new surface, please do not forget to drag the court after each game and, if the weather is very dry, to water the court (just like a regular clay court).
Thanks are due to all involved in the planning and execution of this major project for our Club. Read on for more details and a couple of pictures.
On Saturday 19 June we made a presentation to Andrew Macintyre in recognition of his 14 years of service to SAC Junior Cricket. To commemorate that we have attached a bell to the pavilion and a commemorative plaque. Many of you will know that a bell is rung at Lords before the start of each and every session and we thought it a good way to record Andrews's efforts into the Club's history. See the main article for a photo of Andrew and the Bell.
The weather threatened. The atmosphere built.
For four cold, barren years, Thoiry had held the John Hardy Shield; but now, having won the first of three games the weekend before (lead by the brilliant Nisseem, having the finest of seasons) Standard had won the first game and entered Sunday's game passionate to win and bring The Shield home.
The atmosphere built further, our covid-exiled captain Alastair, was back. Rejoice! Better still, he won the toss; we would bat. Did we do it? Read on!
Saturday’s game against Lille was only the second time this fixture had been played at Standard Athletic and after last year’s thrilling high scoring draw, anticipation for another epic match was high. After winning the toss and electing to bat, and left Standard needing 122 runs.
With Standard sensing a comfortable run chase, things couldn’t have started worse: one of the openers was run out after only 1 run and a flurry of wickets saw SAC five down with only 66 runs on the board, but opener Malith remained to make an immaculate 43, but left Standard still needing 50 runs with only three wickets remaining. Henry and Shakeel then put on a 34 runs together and Shakeel finished things off with some powerful boundaries to send Standard across the line with a two-wicket win. (Read on for full details.)
SAC members - adults and teenagers - put on a dazzling display of doubles tennis in Sunday's Reopening Day Mix-in Tennis Tournament.
A big thank you to the 50-plus people who took part, including more than a dozen teenagers.
Victoria and Jon triumphed with a 4-3 victory over Phoebe and Renaud in the adult draw. Auguste and Thomas pulled off a victory by the same margin against Victoire and Anselm in the teenage draw.
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Some 49 members were able to attend the different forums offering encouragement and some significant preferred directions, suggesting clearer conditions for member volunteering, as well as raising some important questions for writing the next chapter for the club. There were a total of 132 interventions from members and also three written submissions with many helpful, specific suggestions and offers of help. Many thanks to all who participated!