I've played in about half of the 28 tournaments, and they've all been fun... and all proceeds go to cancer research!  Highlights of this tournament included 

• the semi-final of Herren-1, Mo (Moawiz Abbas Khan [2]) vs. Georg Pickl [3] where Georg cam back from 2-0 down to win. 
• the Seniors 3rd place play-off, where Iris Stockbauer [4]  won a nail-biting 5-setter against Jörg Sieber [3].
• the location Sports4You was ideal (I especially like the downstairs gym for warming up)
• the organisation by Martin Kraft, was, as ever, excellent, 
• the food, with asian noodles, rice and chicken curry made a nice change from the standard pasta
• the barrel of Augustiner was the perfect thirst-quencher after a hard tournament, in conjunction with a relaxing sauna in great company!
   

Herren 2

I registered for the seniors, but Martin decided I needed more of a challenge, so put me in the main mens draw: 72 participants split into groups of 8, so each player had 3 games and fitting the tournament into one day. I was sorted by squash level into the second men's group. Link to Herren 2 Draw
Tobias Neugebauer was seeded 1, and justified the seeding by not dropping a set, beating Thomas Grübel in the final.

John vs  Harry Gildersleve [5]

My first game was against Harry, who I'd lost to in our only previous encounter, a league game in Kempton. My arrival was a bit delayed because Josie stepped on broken glas and was bleeding from a cut in her paw, which I had to clean and bandage before setting off. So as warm-up I only spent about 2 minutes on a hometrainer and 5 minutes stetching before going straight onto court. 

Fortunately Harry hadn't played much for nearly a month, so I won the first set befrore he really got into it, and managed to stay ahead in both the other sets, although it was getting closer, and I was glad not to go to a fourth!

11-4, 11-8, 11-9

John vs Tobias Neugebauer [1] 

I lost 3-1 in our previous game: this time I lost 3-0. After starting well, I was unable to slow  the game down when Tobi started applying the pressure. 

11-9, 11-8, 11-4

John vs Stefan Walica [6]  

I hadn't played Stefan for probably 15 years: we used to meet when Gilching payed Taufkirchenm, and I can't remember who won, but it was always a hard game.

This time Stefan had a hard first game in which he won 3-1 against Michael Aurich, before losing to Thomas Grübel in the semi-final, so I think he was more tired than I was: but the first 2 sets went to tie-break and I had to defend set-points in both: in the second I was 6-10 down, but managed to scrape it 13-11. In the third set I started well, and after letting Stefan get back from 0-4 to 5-5 I put on the pressure to take it 11-5, Stefan unfocussed, maybe due to an ankle injury.

12-10, 13-11, 11-5

Conclusion

I'll be back!