Margate Lawn Tennis Club Junior Alfie Garratt has won the prestigious Parklangley Tennis Club Under 14 tournament.
The Beckenham based club event started off with round robin group stages that Alfie, in his words, progressed through reasonably well. In his first group match, he played Hadi Makhmudi winning 4-2, 4-1 and 6-3, 6-1. In his second match of the groups stage, Alfie faced Sebastian Blaize, levelling the sets at 4-2, 1-4 and then winning 10-3 in the deciding tiebreak.
Moving on to the main draw, the Margate Junior was pitched against Freddie Walker in the quarters, winning by a decisive 4-0, 4-2. That took Alfie on to the semi-finals of the competition where he played Janil Patel. Alfie took the first set 4-2, lost the second 2-4 but then won the match 10-4 in the deciding tiebreak.
Come the final and Alfie faced up to the competition’s Number 2 seed James King, taking the match 4-2, 4-2 in a resounding win.
For Alfie, the event was a great day out, winning some very tough matches and coming through very strong to take the tournament title.
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