New promoted Hunters 1^st team (Coventry League) started the season with an away fixture at Jubilee St Augustines 3^rd team. The first pairing of Michal Helis and Aseem Shama fought a close first match, narrowly losing both games 21-19, while second pair Shahid Mirza and Phil Pelton comfortably took their first match. Third pair Lee Rickard and Simon Piercy scored admirably in their first match, but couldn’t defeat Jubilee’s third pair, who proved the strongest pairing on the night.

Michal and Aseem won their second match, but the next three games all went to Jubilee, before Shahid and Phil won in the 8^th, and Simon and Lee won in the final 9^th match.

Overall a close match with Jubilee winning 5-4 on the night. A promising start to the season with all three pairings winning at least one match.