AEGON 10U County Cup - Herefordshire & Worcestershire Boys
Telford - June 2nd/3rd 2012
Captain: Tony Ravenscroft
Team: Felix Gill, Josh Wares, David Turner
The first team for H&W to play were Shropshire. H&W were 2-1 to the good after 3 close singles rubbers. Josh Wares lost to Peter Clark 4-2, 5-3, both Felix Gill and David Turner won their matches in the match tie-break. Felix beat Thomas Loxley 2-4, 4-2, (10-6) and David beat Archie McKirdy 4-1, 2-4, (10-6). We needed the doubles to win the tie and Felix and Josh fought back to win 0-4, 4-0, (10-8).
The next two counties were Staffordshire and South Wales who were both too strong on the day for the H&W boys losing 3-0 in both ties.
H&W had to win against North Wales to secure a third place finish. David Turner lost to Thomas Barlow 4-1, 5-3, Josh Wares beat Taylor Webb 5-4(4), 4-2 and Felix Gill beat Sebastian Birchall 4-1, 4-0. Felix and Josh then went on to win another close doubles 5-4(16-14).
Due to the weather forecast for the Sunday forecast to be a washout we decided to try and fit all matches in during the Saturday. Doubles matches were only played if needed and the final doubles match between H&W and North Wales was changed to one set because it was 8pm and all the boys had started at 8.30am.
It was a great day of competition for all the boys, which they thoroughly enjoyed. The H&W team spirit was excellent and it was needed especially during the last set of matches.
Tony Ravenscroft