The 2019 Tennis season sees the IOMLTA Summer Leagues starting in April and set to continue until June/July. In the Men's League there are 12 teams split into 4 Divisions: 4 teams from Douglas Lawn Tennis Club, 3 from Albany, 2 each from Castletown and Ramsey, and 1 from Port Erin. In the Women's League there are 7 teams split into 2 Divisions: 2 teams from each of Albany, Castletown, and Douglas, and 1 team from Ramsey.
Results so far are as follows:
Women's Division 1: Albany A drew with Douglas A 3/3 Katsuyo Yamazaki/Kirsten Hall lost to Karen Faragher/Seraphina Batty 0/6:2/6. Lisa Horsfall/Aailish Kelly beat Tania Thomas/Carol Crooks 6/3:6/2. Yamazaki/Hall beat Thomas/Crooks 6/0. Horsfall/Kelly lost to Faragher/Batty 3/6.
Women's Division 2: Ramsey A lost to Castletown B 1/5 Alison Hart/Helen Brooks lost to Carole Ennett/Kirree Ronan 0/6:4/6. Cathy Tsitsos/Ellen Barlow lost to Amanda Munro/Karen Murphy 6/7:2/6. Hart/Brooks beat Munro/Murphy 6/4. Tsitsos/Barlow lost to Ennett/Ronan 2/6. Women's Division 2: Albany B beat Ramsey A 6/0 Kath Kermode/Aailish Kelly beat Caitlin Henery/Cathy Tsitsos 6/1:6/1. Trish Thomas/Katsuyo Yamazaki beat Sally Broadhead/Ellen Barlow 6/0:6/1. Kermode/Kelly beat Broadhead/Barlow 6/2. Thomas/Yamazaki beat Henery/Tsitsos 6/1.
Men's Division 2: Douglas B drew with Albany B 3/3 Craig Swann/Efren Cagadas lost to Alastair Montgomerie/Peter Dunworth 3/6:6/7. Andy Murray/Steph Joyce beat David Bufton/Paul Reid 7/5:6/3. Swann/Cagadas lost to Bufton/Reid 3/6. Murray/Joyce beat Montgomerie/Dunworth 7/5.
Men's Division 4: Port Erin A lost to Ramsey B 1/5 Donald Stewart/John Williams lost to Richard Simpson/Adam Davies 4/6:4/6. Graham McFarlane/Geoff Corke lost to Kevin Drewry/Ian Brophey 4/6:0/6. Stewart/Williams beat Drewry/Brophey 6/2. McFarlane/Corke lost to Simpson/Davies 1/6.
Ron Sibthorpe, IOMLTA League Secretary.