Girls 10U Aegon County Cup
1st- 2nd June
Venue - Telford
Captain - Luke Pettit
Players - Asena Pavlova, Claudia Bullock, Sally Lewin, Amelia Short
Our first match of the weekend came against Staffs, on paper looking like the strongest team. This proved to be the case, Asena managed to pull out a gutsy 10-7 match tie break win in singles, but sadly that's as good as it got as our other matches we were resoundingly beaten to lose the tie 6-2.
Our second match was against South Wales. Again, Asena pulled out a strong win 4-0 4-0. With Claudia fighting but going down at two, the tie was balanced well. Amelia had a mammoth match managing to win the second set tie break 20-18, but in the end after a great match she came just short 10-8 in the match tie-break. Sally and Asena pulled us level with a great team effort in the doubles, but in the shoot out again we were just short losing out 10-5.
Day Two and we started with North Wales. Asena was beaten at 1 by a very strong player. Sally and Claudia both put in great consistent performances to get two strong wins. Asena and Amelia narrowly lost the doubles. So again we were into a shoot-out. This time Amelia and Asena played great offence to crush North Wales 10-7 and end North Wales’ chances of going through.
Our final match came up against Shropshire. Asena and Claudia again put in two great performances to put us 2-0 up. Sally was overpowered in her singles in a great performance for the opposition. And in the final match Asena and Amelia put in their best doubles performance in a 4-1 4-2 win meaning we won 6-2 overall.
I'd like to congratulate the girls on some great performances, and also on concentration having to wait 5 hours to play two doubles matches!!
Thanks to all who took part and the parents for committing the time to travel.
We came third overall, just behind South Wales by 1 match win but level on points.
Luke Pettit