Kerry Pollard and Tom Kisiel win Leicestershire singles titles

Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Helen Thorpe and Kerry Pollard

Kerry Pollard and Tom Kisiel won the singles titles at the Leicestershire tennis championships.

The finals of 30 events, involving more than 300 players, were fought out at Leicestershire Lawn Tennis.

Leicester Grammar School teacher Pollard, from the Roundhill, defeated County colleague Helen Thorpe (Hamilton), in a repeat of last year's final.

The match was hard fought with both players going for their shots and hitting winners from all angles.

It lasted for two hours before Pollard won 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.

It was her ninth title – her first was in 1994 – and her fourth consecutive final.

Thorpe aggravated an arm injury in the final and she and Charlotte Griffin had to concede the doubles title to Claire Seal and Pollard.

Kisiel (Leicester Forest East) beat Oadby's David Ireland 7-6, 5-7, 6-3 in the final of the men's singles.

It was Kisiel's third consecutive triumph in the event.

Ireland reached 18 consecutive finals until 2006, winning the title 12 times.

Brett and Chris Harwood (Leicester Forest East) won the men's doubles.

They took the crown for a fourth time, beat Mark Oldman (Kibworth) and James Tutt (Leicestershire).

Seal and Adam Popowich took the mixed doubles, beating Pollard and Stephen Sharpe 6-1, 6-4.

The finals of the other level events were fiercely contested.

Ireland retained the 35+ singles, beating Ian Hughes 6-1, 6-0 in a repeat of the 2010 final.

Alison Ison (Roundhill) won the 35+ singles, beating Jane Gadsby (Leicestershire) 6-3, 7-6.

In the 35+ men's doubles, Ireland and Stephen Brett beat Ian Thomas and Geoff Wayman 6-3, 6-3.

Kerry and Phil Pollard beat Shirley Fox and Leon Stewart-Hillard 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in the 35+ mixed doubles.

In the 40+ women's doubles, Shirley Fox and Alison Ison beat Gadsby and Jo Pick 7-6, 7-6.

Thomas defeated Stephen Stroud 6-3, 6-4 in the 45+ men's singles.

Ison and Leon Stewart-Hillard beat Thomas and Fox 7-6, 6-4 in the veteran's mixed doubles.

other results – 45+ handicap men's doubles: R Arthur & M Merriman bt A Brownhills & M Palmer 6-3, 6-0; 40+ handicap women's doubles: S Jones & G Pick bt E Fazackerley & S Shuttlewood 3-6, 6-3, 6-3; handicap men's singles Group A: J Lloyd bt P Stacey walkover; handicap men's singles Group B: M Goodman bt P Wardle 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; handicap women's Singles: H Kingston bt R Perkins 6-3, 12-10; handicap A men's doubles: Jon & Jos Yates bt P Nettleton & G Siddons 10-8, 6-3; handicap B men's doubles: J Stock & P Allsopp bt A Begg & G Singh 6-4, 6-2; handicap A women's doubles: J Soulsby & C Hawke-Vaughan bt A Watts & E Webb 6-2, 6-3; handicap B women's doubles: R Turner & A Foss bt E Ellis & J Parsons 7-5, 6-3; handicap A mixed doubles: A Carpenter & L Ellis bt J Lloyd & R Perkins 9-7, 6-3; handicap B mixed doubles: A Bowditch & L Wilson-Kelly bt P Cook & A Evatt 6-8, 6-3, 6-4; handicap men's doubles plate: M&P Jessop bt M Coats & C Riddlesworth 6-4, 10-8; handicap women's doubles plate: I Irvine & C King bt C Heslop & A Wright 6-3, 11-9; handicap mixed doubles plate: J Stone & I Irvine bt J&C Haworth 6-3, 8-6; level women's singles plate: B Gadsby bt A Dilks 6-0, 6-0.

 
 

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