ANDY Tordoff beat Bob Robinson in the York Veterans' Squash Championships men's final at Dunnington last night.

The 40-year-old Tordoff, the second seed and Robinson's junior by ten years, won 10-8 9-1 9-3.

The first game took 16 minutes. Robinson went into a 7-1 lead but Tordoff brought the game back to 6-7 in one hand out.

Robinson had game ball at 8-6 but a wrong-footing cross court drop allowed Tordoff to regain serve and with another run of five points he took the opening game.

Robinson had a subdued start to the second, uncharacteristically losing the first seven points.

Robinson managed only three hand outs as Tordoff won 9-1.

Robinson was carrying an injury and Tordoff punished him with drops and lobs in the third game. Tordoff won the match on the first championship point.

In the ladies final, Annette Williams beat Wendy Shepherd 9-0 9-1 9-7 in 22 minutes to regain the trophy which she last won in 1993.

Shepherd, returning from injury, was unable to cope with the pace and cross-courts of Williams, who took the first game 9-0.

In the second game Williams was soon 6-0 and 8-1 up and took the game at the first attempt.

Shepherd volleyed well in the third game, putting pressure on Williams and some errors creeping into Williams' game.

Shepherd led 6-5 then 7-5 but was unable to maintain the pressure as Williams came home 9-7.

In the Ladies Plate final Barbara Plummer came from 0-2 down to beat her Dunnington clubmate Liz Stacey 3-2.

Stacey had five match balls in the match, the first one in the third game, but Plummer, having seen off Jean Denholme in the semi-finals, was outplayed in the fifth.

Steve Chadwick beat his RI clubmate Pete March 3-0 in 25 minutes in the Men's Plate final.

Updated: 11:12 Saturday, January 27, 2001