Cambridgeshire Seniors' Tennis Successes in 2019

Teresa Catlin (our gold medalist) also won the 50s Ladies singles & doubles, at The British Open Seniors Indoor Tennis Championships @ Tipton, alongside Pieter Van Houten who won 50s singles, Pat Forster & Sue Mitchell reached the semis of 60s Doubles, David Mills reached the semis of 50s singles and with Nick Boys reached the semis of 45s doubles. 

David was also R/U in 50s men’s singles and Simon Elliot won 55s doubles and reached the semis in 55s singles at Tunbridge Wells Open Seniors Championships.  David then reached the semis of Men’s 50s singles and won the 50s doubles with Nick Boys at the British Closed Seniors Championships, Wimbledon, and reached the 50s singles semis at the Open Seniors Grass Championships at Eastbourne.

Andrew Moragon won 45s singles, Pat Forster R/U in 60s singles and doubles with Sue Mitchell at the ITF Indoor Gosling Championships. Andrew also won the 45s Men’s singles at the Leics Clay court Championships. 

Tim Poutain-Holes won 35s singles at ITF Seniors Halton, then was R/U in the 35s singles and won the 35s doubles at ITF Frosts Seniors, Gerrards Cross

Scott Martin was R/U in 45s singles & doubles to James Yates and R/U in the Open Mixed at Framlingham and reached the semis of 50s singles and 45s doubles with Alan Jordan at the British Seniors Open Grass Championships at Eastbourne.

Jenny Chin was R/U 60s doubles at Bournemouth, won the 55 doubles at Frinton, and reached the semis of 60s singles and R/U of 55s doubles at the Open Seniors Grass Championships at Eastbourne 

Jim Hunter(65s captain) and Bob Harrower(70s captain) won the Norfolk Open 65s men's doubles at Cromer and Jim reached the semis of the 65 singles, Karen Goodman won 40s ladies doubles, and Trish Esplin & Alice Thomson reached the semis. Jim also won the 65s singles at Yorks Open Seniors alongside Mark Sanders (60s Captain) who was R/U in the 60s singles.  Bob also reached the finals of the 70s doubles against Mark Cox at the British Seniors Closed Grass Championships at Wimbledon.

Gee Farnsworth won 40s ladies singles, at Hunstanton (the largest tournament in the country), Simon Elliot was R/U in 55s singles and won the 55s doubles, Alan Jordan & Shay Ginat were R/U in 45s doubles and Shay won the 45s mixed.

So very proud of all our Seniors successes this year with more to come later when all the inter-county age related leagues matches finish at the end of September.

Cambs 35s Team at Eastbourne 35s Championships - so narrowly missed promotion!
Tim Poutain-Holes, Pieter Van Houten, David Mills, Scott Martin, Adrian Blackman, Chris Little