9U County Cup Success

Both of our 9U teams qualified for the North finals at Nottingham Tennis Centre over the weekend. The girls led by Lauren Banks and Amanda Twigg were up first on Saturday with the same set of players from the qualifying event. In the group the girls were up against Northumberland, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, and West of Scotland. The girls got off to a flying start beat Northumberland 5-1 and never really looked back. They quickly went on to beat Northamptonshire 6-0 and West of Scotland 6-0 with all the girls contributing to these 2 results. The last match was a winner takes all with Warwickshire. The girls we’re 3-1 up after the singles and only needing 1 more rubber to win the match. Both pairs dominated their doubles match only dropping 2 games between both matches, and with that victory the girls were crowned the North finals winners. There is a real bond with this team and you can see this when their supporting each other.

Girls Results:

Beat Northamptonshire 6-0

Beat Northumberland 5-1

Beat Warwickshire 5-1

Beat West of Scotland 6-0

Boys kicked off on Sunday lead by Chris White and Dan Longshaw with the same set of players from the qualifying event. The boys started off against Yorkshire who were the strongest team and went on to win the event in the end. The boys rubbed of the loss to Yorkshire quickly taking down Hereford and Worcester 5-1 and West of Scotland 4-2 with all 5 of the boys playing key roles in the matches. The last match was against Lincolnshire and a chance to finish runners up. The boys got off to a quick start winning at 4, 3, and 2. Unfortunately we lost at 1 which meant we went into the doubles with a 3-1 lead in rubbers. Both doubles matches were very competitive with our 2nd pair going to a tiebreak winning that 7-4 and the 1st pair won their match which gave us a 5-1 victory and finishing runners up in the North Finals.  

Boys Results:

Lost to Yorkshire 0-6

Beat Hereford & Worcester 5-1

Beat West of Scotland 4-2

Beat Lincolnshire 5-1

Junior County Performance Co-ordinator, Simon Thornewill, said, “This was a fantastic weekend for our 9U County Cup teams with he girls winning the finals and the boys finishing runners up. I am extremely proud of all the players, coaches and parents, this was a massive team effort from everyone involved in running the team and everyone behind the scenes working with these players on a day to day basis. The team bond these players have has been embedded into them from the previous years and you could feel them all pulling for each other to achieve something special. Well done to everyone.”