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Mens Doubles is the most popular Hampshire & Isle of Wight doubles event over the summer, so take a deep breath with us as we run through all nine divisions to see how things are shaping up now the end of the season is in flight.

Two of those divisions have already been won — congrats to Riverside and David Lloyd West End on getting some early titles in.

The men's doubles review starts at 27:21.

Meanwhile, last weekend’s heatwave turned the tables upside down for Apsley League planning — nine of the scheduled 13 fixtures were postponed in the end. There’s chatter of revisiting the rules around hot weather, and the big end of season finales now look a little upside down, especially in the Premier Division.

Twyford got the first top flight win of its 120 year history in the Apsley League. Player of the fixture Sam Hunt shares what it means to the A team and how it sets up the back of the summer season.

Sam's interview at The Bugle Inn starts at 18.42.

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A major heatwave is grabbing the southern UK during peak tennis season for the first time in two years, so new rules created back in 2023 will be put to the test this weekend.

In this episode we discuss the moral quandary around postponing a match in 29 degree weather (feels like 31!), and whether or not there will be any funny business going on after fixtures start, should one side fall behind quickly in any of the Apsley's 13 fixtures this weekend.

It's inevitable, isn't it? Falling behind quickly in some fixtures, we mean, of course...

Plus Dave and Tom are in the Hampshire singles boxes, and we chat a bit about Wimbledon too. Maybe electronic line calls aren't the answer after all?

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We take a step eastwards in Episode 2.11, exploring how the East Hants league works for clubs that lie out towards the border with West Sussex. The East Hants chat starts on the 20 minute mark.

We find a smaller but more perfectly structured set of events out there, but no website to help us make sense of it all. Does East Hants have a website? Please let us know if there is one.

Analysing the data that’s available, we look at the overlaps with Southampton LTA, discuss which clubs that serve as the big dogs out east, and try to assess their relative strength against other leagues in the county.

Before that, we take a look at what happened during Survival Saturday for Premier Division teams in Week 11 of the Apsley League, take a little look through other Apsley results and preview the fixtures coming up on July 5.

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