Essex 10U County Cup Boys Qualify for National Finals
Aegon Boys 10U County Cup
Regional Qualifying
The county cup event was held at Cambridge tennis centre over the weekend 28th and 29th May. The 5 counties involved were Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex.
The boys team consisted of Alex Groves, Rittik Anand, Cameron Isbell and Joesph Lampon.
Our first match was against Cambridgeshire which started off well with our number 3 Alex winning in a championship tiebreak! Rittik and
Cameron showed a great display of tennis winning their singles and doubles. Essex 4 Cambridgeshire 0.
Our second match was against Norfolk. Alex & Rittik seemed to breeze through, winning their singles convincingly. Cameron had a tricky match and in great style Cameron battled through to win in the championship tie break.
Essex 4 Norfolk 0
Sunday had Joesph, who had been supporting all day Saturday, finally got his racket out the bag to play at number 3 against Bedfordshire. Joesph battled really well controlling his nerves by winning the championship tie break 10-1.
Rittik and Alex both won their singles and doubles without dropping many games.
Essex 4 Bedfordshire 0
Essex knew what had to be done to get through to the national finals in Bolton. With tough matches ahead against Suffolk, they raised their game with Rittik winning at tough battle against Noah Cutting 1 - 4, 4 - 2, 10 – 4 and Alex playing impeccable tennis winning 4-0, 4-0. Joesph had an awkward customer losing in straight sets. Essex had to win their final doubles match against Suffolk to qualify for the national finals! With a nail biting finish and some fantastic doubles (thanks to their coach) Essex won 1-4, 4-2,10-1.
Essex 3 Suffolk 1
This is a great achievement, not only to qualify but to qualify and only lose 1 match out of the 16 matches played. Well done boys and a big thank you to the parents for their support throughout the weekend.
Here we come Bolton!!
Tom Higgins
10U County Cup Captain