Krautter comes back twice in ACC A's five-decider thriller
Four recoveries from two games down turn a 6–4 into the division's most remarkable card.
Coverage: 19–25 October 2026Published
A single fixture produced four singles winners who had lost their opening two games. Alongside it came a concession-affected draw, a Hawks victory and an unbeaten return from John Nuttall. Division One did not have to borrow its stories from anywhere else.
Player of the Week
Jan Krautter
ACC A
Recovered from two games down to beat both Paul Datson and George Bashford in ACC A's 6–4 win. Two played wins with two full recoveries in a fixture decided by two points: an editorial choice for the distinctive contribution, rather than an automatic three-win award.
Supporting TT Leagues scorecardDCA CrusadersNTFC - CT (Rothersthorpe) B
Rothersthorpe B drew 5–5 at DCA Crusaders despite conceding three singles through a vacant player slot. Paul Nichols won all three of his played singles, Vincent Galvin added one, and the visitors took the doubles. For Crusaders, Ricky Jackson and Sergiu Dubenco each had one played win plus a concession; Orrin Edwards' point was conceded.
Nichols beat Jackson 11–8 in a fifth. Dubenco held off Galvin 11–6 in another decider after Galvin had recovered from two games down. Read as played singles alone, the split was 4–2 to Rothersthorpe; add three concessions and the doubles, and the recorded draw makes sense.
Official TT Leagues scorecardACC AKingsley D
ACC A's 6–4 win over Kingsley D contained five five-game rubbers. Vitor Cadilha won all three singles, but Jan Krautter's two wins came by an extraordinary route: he lost the opening two games against both Paul Datson and George Bashford, then recovered to win each in five.
Filipe Santiago also came back from 0–2 against Bashford, finishing 11–9. Paul Malpass supplied the mirror image, overturning Krautter's two-game lead to win 11–9 in the fifth, as part of a two-win return. Malpass and Datson took the doubles after losing a 2–0 lead, ultimately winning 11–5 in the decider. Four singles comebacks from two down in one fixture: the scoreline almost needs an appendix.
Official TT Leagues scorecardHeadlands HawksACC Foxes
Eugeniu Scorolitnii won three singles in Headlands Hawks' 8–2 against ACC Foxes, with Christian Dabbs and Steve Fuller adding two apiece. Kamil Cherek and Stefano Swift claimed Foxes' points. There were no fifth games on this card; Hawks' seven singles wins and doubles success gave the result a rather different rhythm from ACC A's five-decider win elsewhere in the division.
Official TT Leagues scorecardGaytonBadgers B
John Nuttall's three singles wins led Badgers B to a 7–3 victory at Gayton. James Norden added two and Greg Norden one, while the visitors also took the doubles. David Allen won twice and Richard Pringuer once for Gayton. Both sides won a five-game contest: James beat Matthew Swarbrick 11–3 in the fifth; Pringuer beat Greg 11–5. Nuttall's unbeaten return supplied the separation.
Official TT Leagues scorecardACC A's 6–4 contained five fifth games; Hawks' 8–2 contained none. Both count equally as team wins, but they could hardly have supplied more different reading.
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