August 11

Summer League Report

Read all this season's reports

These weekly reports also appear each Thursday in the Nottingham Evening Post. We value your contributions by adding interesting details about the matches on your match cards.

A prize will be awarded to the club who submits the most newsworthy reports . This was won last year by Magdala Tennis Club.

Freya Christie - Junior Player of the Month for July

Our very own Freya Christie has won the AEGON Junior Player of the Month award for July. Freya is only 13 years old, but competed in an 18U ITF event and won five matches to take her first singles title as she won the Corfu Cup in Greece. See full report

Annual Jack Britton Singles Trophy

The 37th Annual Jack Britton Singles Trophy was won by Sam Ashcroft from Nottingham Castle Tennis Club last weekend.

Sam is pictured here with the runner up Vasya Kusmartsev.

Click link above for full details

Men’s Summer County Cup

The Men's County team were at Cambridge for their Division 4 matches against West of Sotland, Hereford & Worcester, Berkshire, North Wales and Leicestershire.

The team were:
Dan MacShane, Scott Whitbread, Josh Poullet, Callum Chivers
Dave Barton, Mike Wisner (Captain), James Middleton

Click link above for the Captain's report and results

Close finish for the Over 60's Men

In their final match of the season, the Men’s Over 60 County team narrowly lost a tight match against Warwickshire on Sunday 31^st July, to concede their title.

Click link above to see full details

Vets County Team reports

Latest news:- Ladies O60's are champions of top Divsion 2A and play in Division 1 next year. Many congratulations to the team pictured left to right: Beryl Jones, Sue Reesby, Jill Shelvey, Jill Beardsell (capt)

Click here to see details of all this summer's County matches.

Great Britain 16U boys win European Summer Cup

Great Britain's 16U boys' team have won the European Summer Cup after claiming a 2-1 victory over Italy in the final in Le Touquet, France.

The team of Evan Hoyt, Kyle Edmund, Nottinghamshire's Luke Bambridge and Captain Greg Rusedski won three matches in three days, beating Ukraine, Israel and Italy on the clay courts of Northern France as they claimed the Borotra Cup for the first ever time for Great Britain in the 40 years of the event.

See full report including video interview

Ladies Summer County Cup

This year the Ladies County Team travelled to Cheltenham for Summer County Week.

The team, pictured from left to right, were
Sarah Wright (Captain), Paula Peters, Emily Crowe, Charlotte Phillips, Sarah-Kate O’Grady, Sarah Usher - and also Shanice Dunk. (not in photo)

Click link above to read captain, Sarah Wright's report of a tough week's tennis.

August 11

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