Report for the 2017 Slazenger Lincolnshire Junior County Championships
The Slazenger Lincolnshire Junior County Closed Tennis Championships was held at Boston Tennis Club last week. Glorious sunshine greeted the competitors on the first day of competition and the finals day was also accompanied by sunshine.
The finals commenced with the 14 and under boys’ singles which was between Matthew Gedney and Ryan Scaman. The winner was Matthew who came through a very tough tie-break first set to win in two. The 14 and under girls’ final was between Asisse Hayre and Lucy Evans and Asisse won in two sets.
The 12 and under girls’ champion is Alice Gamman and Isabel Wookey the runner up. Ryan Scaman played Hugo Hunt in the 12 and under boys’ final and Ryan again missed out in the first set tie-break, won the second set but it was Hugo who won the third set and the title.
In the older age groups Marcus Witt won both the 16s and 18s defeating Lucas East and Matthew Gedney respectively. In the 18 girls’ final it is Philippa Bourne who is champion and Lucy Hull the runner up.
In the mini tennis events Joshua Harris took home the 10 and under trophy with Chase Burgess the runner up, and Joshua Harris earlier in the week competed and won the 9 and under with Ben Rudkin in second place. Ruby Cooling also did the double winning green and orange events with Bethany Aust runner up in the green and Sophie Munks collecting the runner up trophy in the orange. At the youngest age group, the red event, Ben Rudkin was first, Reuben Herridge second and Matilda Waterhouse was the girl winner and Yvie-Sue Bailey runner up.
The final day was brought to an end by three doubles matches. The 14 and under won by William Cheer and Hugo Hunt with Aidan Parker and William Dunning runners up. The 18s girls’ doubles final was won by Philippa Bourne and Lucy Hull against Anna Maria Broskov Larsen and Alice Gamman. Whilst in the boys’ 18 doubles final for Ryan Scaman there was at last a trophy after all his valiant efforts when Ryan and Matthew Gedney beat Marcus Witt and Bradley Bullas 6-4 in the third set!
After the conclusion of that doubles it was early evening when the presentations of the trophies were made to the winners and runners up by Lincolnshire’s very own Linda Main. Congratulations were given to all those youngsters who won events in the Championships as well as to all the players who participated. For the first time, a Tennis Team Challenge was also held at the Tournament involving 5 teams of 4 players from clubs around Lincolnshire. It was a great addition to the proceedings and well done to not only the overall winners from Eastgate but to everyone who played in it. Tony Stamp the Slazenger Lincolnshire Junior County Closed referee was thanked for his very hard work.
