This was our tenth winter tournament where our members come together and compete for the Bob Teasdale Trophy on the indoor courts at Graves Health and Sports Centre.

We changed the format slightly this year still playing doubles tennis throughout but implementing an American Tournament style which requires mixed pairings, as we had more men than ladies taking part this resulted in some of the guys playing as ladies, this was taken in good spirit as the chosen ones settled into their roles playing as ladies for their time on court.

We had the usual thirty-two players all playing just over ninety minutes of tennis, with time off court to socialise and enjoy the buffet made up by contributions from all our participants, with no charge to enter the food offerings are always very generous. After the tennis our Chair Jane Willis presented trophies to our winners Ian Dungworth and Helen Griffiths and runners Mell Thirkell and Geoff Waddilove. Presentations were also made to the winners and runner ups of this year’s knockout tournaments.

Congratulations to all the winners and runners up and well done to everyone who took part.

Sunday’s winners Ian and Helen

Sunday’s runners ups Mel and Geoff

Men’s open doubles winners Joe and Ben

Mixed open doubles winners Jane and Ian

Ladies open singles winner Mel

Ladies open doubles winners Mel and Emma

Our men’s singles knockout winner Reuben and Roger who partnered Steve in the Men’s open doubles and Sue in both the mixed doubles were not available to collect their trophies.

Ladies open doubles runners up Jane and Sue