It was a great weekend for our 10 & Under teams with the Girls team progressing to the National Finals and the Boys team finishing runners up in their group.
10 & Under Boys
Captain: Imran Aswat Assistant Captain: Rob Cowley
Team Alfred Belfrage, Marcus Cullen, Lucas Frost, Jude Kay and Owen Markey.
The boys weekend started off with a change of captain as Callum and his wife welcomed the safe arrival of their first child early on the Saturday morning, thanks to Imran who kindly stepped in at the last minute!
The boys started off their County Cup in sunny Widnes with a 4-2 over Derbyshire, a fixture that had 6 tie breaks in! The boys then followed this up on Saurday afternoon with a 5-1 win over Nort Wales. This left it all to play for on Sunday with us taking on Cheshire for a place in the National Final! Cheshire started well and were 3-1 up after the singles rubbers, our doubles work though paid off with us winning both the doubles rubbers to level the tie at 3-3. Now for a match shoot out to decide who progresses to the final! It wasn't to be for our boys who after a lot of fight lost at the final hurdle.
Well done to all the players!
10 & Under Girls
Captain: Sarah Hillier Assistant Captain: Ella Taylor
Team Amarachi Ikem, Jia Kochhar, Esha Kumar, Chloe Lau and Vanessa Zelca.
The girls team travelled to sunny Carlisle to take on Cumbria & Durham & Cleveland after Northumberland withdrew at the last minute. Saturday saw the girls play of their singles matches and after illness and injury to players the team managed to finish the day 3-1 up against both Cumbria and Durham & Cleveland. Sunday was a slightly cooler day and the team knew they just needed to win 2 out of their 4 doubles matches to qualify for the Finals in Lincolnshire in June. Not content with just wining 2 of the doubles matches the team went on to win all 4 of them finishing winners of the group!
Well done to all the players and good luck at the National Finals at Boston Tennis Club on 10th and 11th June.