Congratulations - to the 2013 H&W Aegon 12U Girls County Cup Team for a great win in the qualifying event at the weekend!
Captain: Steve Barnett
Players: Alicia Williams, Kirsten Campbell-Ferguson, Imogen Sinclair and Imogen Looker
Manor Park, Malvern – Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June
Day 1
Our first match was Staffordshire, who we lost to last year. Imogen Sinclair set the pace with a 4-0, 4-1 win in her first singles followed by an outstanding performance by Alicia Williams to beat the Staffordshire number one 4-1, 4-0. This was then closely followed by Kirsten Campbell-Ferguson with a 4-0, 4-1 win in her singles. With the win against Staffordshire already confirmed we wanted to finish off with a solid doubles win, which Kirsten and Imogen S did winning 4-1, 4-1.
The second fixture was against South Wales, despite competitive opposition Imogen won the first singles 5-4 4-1 against a player playing a much higher level than her rating would suggest. This was followed by a solid performance from Kirsten winning 4-0, 5-4. Alicia had a real fight in her second singles with her opponent battling hard to ensure we didn’t go 3-0 up in matches. After a tough deciding tie break in the third set Alicia won 4-2, 4-5 (12-10). The doubles gave Imogen Looker her first match representing the county at county cup and she performed fantastically with Imogen Sinclair to come back from 1 set down to win 2-4, 4-1 (10-7).
After a successful day without a loss the girls were able to rest for an important second day.
Day 2
The first match of the day was against North Wales and this being the most important match as they also had won both matches the previous day. The girls had no problem in showing how much they wanted the win as Alicia dismantled her opponent to win 4-1, 4-1 and Kirsten to win 4-0, 4-1. Imogen S had an extremely tough match and only narrowly lost 4-0, 1-4 (8-10). With the doubles left to play Alicia and Kirsten finished the match with a 4-1, 4-1 win, meaning an overall result of 3-1.
Our final fixture was Shropshire and the girls won in style. Alicia won 4-2, 4-2; Kirsten won 4-0, 4-1; Imogen S won 4-0, 4-0 only losing 4 points. With the 3 singles complete our victory was in sight and the two Imogens had no problem with completing the competition win and won 4-0, 4-1 comfortably.
So after a successful couple of day’s tennis the H&W girls U12 had won only losing 1 rubber.
Next step Aegon County Cup finals in Bolton – Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th July!!