The quarter finals of both the Team Handicap and the Lower Divisions Cup have been completed.

Tidmarsh D’s reign in the latter is over following a 6-3 defeat at Curzon Club C.

Tracy Maynard and John Walker were undefeated as Curzon moved up a gear with the match balanced at 3-3.

The winners now meet surprise package, and the only Division Five team left in the competition, Springfield D.

They just squeezed past Milestone C 5-4 thanks to a dramatic 3-11 11-4 10-12 set nine win by Colin Jones and Adrian Wegrzynowski. They are now unbeaten for three rounds in a row.

The other semi final will see Reading FC A, who comprehensively defeated their B team clubmates 8-1, face Our Lady of Peace D.

OLOP triumphed 6-3 against Springfield B in a much tighter match, with OLOP picking up five of the seven sets that required a deciding game.

In the handicap competition three of the four quarter finals ended 5-4, the exception being Our Lady of Peace E’s 6-3 win at Milestone C.

This came despite a valiant effort from John Evans, who won all three of the sets for Milestone.

OLOP will now play their B team, the current holders of the trophy, in the last four.

Our Lady of Peace B required all nine sets to see off Sonning Common & Peppard E having beaten two other Sonning Common teams in previous rounds.

Captain-on-the-night Binit Bhaskar won set nine and the match 24-22 20-22 21-13, although player-of-the-match Harikrishna Laddunuri’s maximum had done the damage earlier.

Last season’s beaten finalists Reading FC A overcame Springfield B despite a Peter Gurney maximum, Antony Alleyne holding off Robert Wilkie in set nine.

Tidmarsh D complete the semi-final line-up following an all-round team effort victory over Tilehurst Methodists.

Two sets apiece from Dave Smith and Terry Hardie and a single from captain Dave Edwards in an extremely close match where 12 of the 23 games played ended deuce or 21-19.