Our first blog of the 2013 Aegon Team Tennis Kent League comes from Wye LTCs 12U Boys captain, with the photo taken by Bromley TCs 12U captain.
This was a close tie between two evenly matched teams, the first round of matches consisted of Bromley TC players 1 & 2 singles playing against Wyes 1&2 , with the 3&4 players teaming up to play doubles.
The number 1 singles rubber was contested between James Elliot (BTC) and Oliver Hanley (Wye). A closely fought first set was finally won by Oliver 6-4, who then followed on to win the second set 6-1. The second singles rubber saw Kristofer Johnson (BTC) play Harry Temple (Wye) which again produced some great tennis. Kristofer won the first set 6-0 and the second set was a closer affair, Kristofer finally winning that set 6-4 and the match.
Meanwhile the 3&4 pairings of Brett Morton and Bunmi Davies (BTC) and Cameron McLaughlin and Daniel Dunlop (Wye) had a tough match with Cameron and Daniel finally emerging victorious in the third set championship tie break, 12-10.
After the first round of matches Wye were 2-1 up, the boys then played the second round of matches which consisted of players 3&4 playing singles and players 1&2 teaming up to play doubles.
Cameron (Wye) beat Brett (BTC) 6-2 6-0 while Bunmi (BTC) emerged victorious over Daniel (Wye) after a very closely fought match, 6-3,7-6.
The match score was now 3-2 to Wye and the final doubles match of James and Kristofer (BTC) against Oliver and Harry (Wye) was also a very close match.
As the first doubles match did, this match also went to a championship tie break, with the Wye team racing to a 6-1 lead before the steady Bromley pairs’ patient game got them back into the match. BTC finally won the tiebreak 10-8 with the match score 6-4, 2-6, 10-8.
That left the match tied at 3-3, after nearly four hours of tennis, all the boys then enjoyed a very nice match tea and hospitality provided by Bromley Tennis Centre. Overall both teams played some great tennis and had a fun day out!
I would like to congratulate all 8 boys who participated in this match on their team spirit, good natured behaviour and respect shown to their opponents. The value of Team Tennis cannot be rated highly enough!
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