# Match Record: Pool 1 Super Mens (2025-10-09)
        
**Category:** Match Result
**Verified:** 2026-06-04 23:05:53
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## Match Parameters
- **Event Date:** 2025-10-09
- **Estimated Play Time:** 12:45 AM
- **Event:** Pool 1 Super Mens
- **Location:** Rotorua Badminton Club 
- **Outcome:** Loss
- **Scores:** 16-14
- **Division:** Doubles Division
- **Level:** Advanced Tier (3.5+) (Average DUPR: 3.93)

## Involved Competitors

### Team 1 (Winner)
- **Mark Lovegrove** (DUPR ID: 8GLZ5X) - Rating: 3.802, Location: Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, NZ
- **John Trevor Phelps** (DUPR ID: 3LQR0Z) - Rating: 4.165, Location: Gisborne, Gisborne, NZ

### Team 2 (Loss)
- **Tony McKenna** (DUPR ID: 8G66WM) - Rating: 3.867, Location: Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, NZ
- **Bruce Finlay** (DUPR ID: W6ZGJL) - Rating: 3.873, Location: Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, NZ

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