Millie and Daisy won the U14 Grade 4 doubles event at Harlow on 8 March.  Well done to you both.

Olivia has recently won four grade 4 U10 events at Welwyn Junior Open, Our Lady of Muswell, the East Winter County Tour North Oxford Lawn Tennis Club and the Culford Open.  Congratulations.

Lillian won the U8 mixed tournament in Bedford on 7 March.  Well done

Ashley Martin, Cambs 55s Men's County Tennis team Captain, reports that he is very pleased to say that Cambridgeshire has won the 2019/20 Men's Over 55s Midlands Veterans Winter League held during the Winter weekends at Corby Indoor Centre, Corby.  We played our final match on Saturday and beat Leicestershire 6-2. It came down to 'winner takes all' as both Cambridgeshire and Leicestershire went into the match with a record of played five, won five against, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire all 7-1, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire 6-1, Bedfordshire 5-3.

It is the first time that Cambridgeshire has won this League in its 27-year history.  The county has its name on the 55s trophy at last! The people who played in all the matches were: Ashley Martin (captain), Alan Jordan, Simon Elliott, Chris Cope, Julian Attfield, Nick Balon, Andy Rice and Scott Martin.  The attached photo is of the 55s Men's team who played the final match, which was taken with the trophy at Corby Indoor Tennis Centre (left to right) Chris Cope, Ashley Martin (Capt), Scott Martin and Alan Jordan.

​Cambs County 40 ladies Team (Captain, Christine Sprowell) also play in the Midlands County Tennis Seniors Leagues at the Corby Indoor Tennis Centre, in the Ladies 40s League.  They were, also in the same position as the Men's team, when they played their final match against Lincolnshire, where both teams had won all their matches and were playing 'winner takes all' but sadly they lost.  They were hoping to get a hat-trick as they had won it the last 2 years.

In a wet and windy Hull Cambridgeshire U18 boys pitted their wits against North of Scotland, Hampshire and Isle of White and West of Scotland in that order. 
 
Initially we were finding our feet which meant that we had a slow start going down 0-3 to North of Scotland.  However strong performances from Darius, Zach and Yujiro meant we levelled up after the singles 3-3.  Going into the doubles with all to play for, momentum shifts were all around.  Yujiro and Ethan playing at pair one again got off to a slow start, but then having been 0-3 down they got their act together and demolished their opponents thereon 6-3, 6-1.  Next to finish were pair three, we had Charlie and Matt which went down to a match tie break also having their chances with a match point, however it wasn’t to be with their opponents pulling through in crucial moments winning 11-9 in the match tie break.  Last to finish were pair two with Zach and Darius fighting with everything they had but it just wasn’t to be.  A painful yet motivating lost of the first day 4-5 to eventual group winners.
 
Day two facing a very strong team on paper in Hampshire and Isle of White our numbers 6,5, 4 and 3 were all involved in very close battles, three of which going the full distance in three sets.  We could have quietly easily been 4-0 up rather than 4-0 down.  Another very strong performance from Zach meant we were still in the tie and number one Yujiro was up against a brick wall in Louie and could not quite dismantle the wall.  This meant we had already lost going into the doubles.  It was a great opportunity to practice some doubles skills and send a bit of a message going into our relegation battle on day three.
 
We were all fired up to battle hard and save relegation on day three.  Charlie got us off to a flyer putting on a very disciplined and professional performance.  Matt and Ethan fought hard however we found ourselves 2-1 down after the first three singles rubbers.  Darius was very clinically levelling us up at 2-2.  Zach had a serious part to play in this story with yet another well earnt victory in three sets.  Our pair three doubles in Leon and Eduardo were sent on whilst Yujiro was playing his singles.  Leon and Eduardo were ruthless demolishing their opponents in quick time setting Yujiro up to clinch staying in group three for next year.
 
Some valuable lessons have been learnt.  All part of the journey and bring on next year.  

The U8 Inter County event took place this Sunday, 8 March at Hills Road.  The Cambridgeshire girls team narrowly missed out on third place on the last point of the last match which was lost 10/9.  

The Cambridgeshire boys came a magnificent third by 2 points.  Etienne won all his matches and Damian won 5 out of 6 with Martin winning 4.  Overall the boys and girls came third behind the winners Essex and then second were Hertfordshire.

Ryan and Raphael won the U14 doubles event at Cambridge Lawn Tennis Club on 7 March.  They won the final 4-2, 4-1.  Well done to you both.

Christof and Raphael won the Grade 4 U16 doubles event at Milton Keynes this weekend.  They won the tournament without dropping a set.  Congratulations.