The Heron Tennis Centre in Trenance Park, Newquay recently held their 6th Annual Open Tennis Championships. The tournament has gone from strength to strength over the years with many players traveling from out of County to take part and this year there was a record entry of 180 players.
The exciting news ahead of this year’s event was the award of Grade 3 Status for the tournament by the Lawn Tennis Association. Grade 3 status means that the tournament carried more ranking points and could therefore attract some of the best players in the Country. It is a real credit to the club and the organizers for a relatively new tournament to be awarded a grade 3 and further recognition of the great staff, facilities and tennis programme that Newquay enjoys at Heron.
With so many strong and experienced players traveling from all over the Country to compete it made things tougher for our local players, but there were many notable performances by Heron players.
A full list of results follows below, but we would like to give special mention to the following local players:
Dan Ogden for reaching the semi-finals in the boys under 12’s, before losing to the eventual champion in an extremely close fought high-quality match. In fact Dan was the only player to provide winner James Mitchell with a serious challenge, so well done to Dan.
16 year old Claire Tressider, who bases her training at Heron, scored a fantastic double success in taking the Ladies Open title and the Girls 17 & Under title. Claire has recently put in a lot of work with Heron Coaches Steve Askey and Matt Trudgeon and these 2 titles were a well deserved reward for everyone’s efforts.
Not to be outdone by his students, Steve Askey also managed to roll back the years by going on to claim the men’s open title. Reaching the final hadn’t been all plain sailing as Steve had to battle back brilliantly from a set down, and then from a break down in the deciding set of his semi-final. This match helped Steve sharpen up his game and mental toughness ahead of the final, which was good news as he was taking on the younger and higher-ranked leftie, Adam Heyward. With strong swirling winds and both players determined to win the large crowd was enthralled as both players coped with the conditions to provide 2 sets of excellent quality. In both sets, Steve managed to stay focused and produce some of his best tennis at the key moments winning in 2 close tie-break sets.
Another local success story was Max Cameron Webb and Elliott Riley reaching the final of the Boys 9 & under event. Both these boys, and a quite a few others at Heron, are showing great promise and we all look forward to seeing them enjoy their progress up the tennis ladder.
Finally a great big thank you to Tournament Referee Sue Eames for the fantastic job she did, to all the Heron staff and Catering team and all of the sponsors who helped this years tournament to be even more successful than we had hoped.
For further information on Booking Courts, Coaching for all ages and levels or any other tennis enquiry, please contact Heron on +44 (0)1637 877 555 or visit www.heron-tennis.co.uk
Ladies Singles
1 Claire Tresidder (Heron) 2 Hayley Butland
Men's Singles
1 Steven Askey (Heron) 2 Adam Heyward
18 & Under Girls Singles
1Claire Tresidder (Heron) 2 Sarah Collinge
18 & Under Boys Singles
1Toby Mitchell 2 Reece Munnery
18 & Under Girls Doubles
1 Sarah Arnold+Lottie Vaughan 2 Hayley Butland+Charlotte Sandy
18 & Under Boys Doubles
1 Anthony Hudson+Toby Mitchell 2 Jordan Thompson+Jordan Young
18 & Under Mixed Doubles
1 Alice Hudson+Anthony Hudson 2 Charlotte Sandy+Reece Munnery
16 & Under Girls Singles
1 Lottie Vaughan 2 Athena Chrysanthou
16 & Under Boys Singles
1 Anthony Hudson 2 Angus Mccaul
14 & Under Girls Singles
1 Athena Chrysanthou 2 Amy Johns
14 & Under Boys Singles
1 Ben Ward 2 Toby Leonard
14 & Under Girls Doubles
1 Sophie Butland+Polly Money 2 Athena Chrysanthou+Lola Randles
14 & Under Boys Doubles
1 Dillon Hart+Ben Ward 2 Oliver Elston+James Mitchell
14 & Under Mixed Doubles
1 Polly Money+Charlie Conchie 2 Athena Chrysanthou+Kieron Butter
12 & Under Girls Singles
1 Rebecca Ley 2 Amy Johns
12 & Under Boys Singles
1 James Mitchell 2 Liam Van Den Hoek
10 & Under Girls Singles
1 Ellie Knox 2 Catherine Hogh
10 & Under Boys Singles
1 Sebastian Harris 2 Jonah Smith
9 & Under Mixed Singles
1 Max Cameron-Webb (Heron) 2 Elliott Riley (Heron)
9 & Under Mixed Singles - 9 & Under Mixed Singles consolation
1 Frederick Stone 2 Tegan Cluett (Heron)
8 & Boys Singles
1 Benjamin Rook 2 Tim Rutherford
8 & Under Girls Singles
1 Aimee Polyblank 2 Teya Sheppard