Virgin Active Cardiff Open Competition

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

November saw the inaugural vets and open competition in Cardiff at the Virgin Active Club.  It was held between Friday 23 and Sunday 25 November using the indoor acrylic courts.

The vets were offered both men’s and ladies events in most categories but once all entries were received we were able to run men’s  45’s, 50’s 55’s, and 60’s plus an open competition which had an A and B draw.  For the ladies we were only able to run a 55’s and an open competition.  The vets events ran over the three days but the open competition was restricted to the weekend.  Over 60 entries were received which was very encouraging for the initial event.

The concept of the entire competition was to offer players an equal amount of matches regardless of their success.  Therefore the draws were either run as compass draws or the players were played in boxes.  Virgin Active  kindly donated racket bags as prizes and trophies were given to the winners and runners up in the vets events.  We are also grateful to Tennis Wales (South)  Seniors and Seniors Tennis GB for their financial backing and Tennis Wales for promoting the event

The winners and runners up are listed below:-

Womens Open   Winner-Lowri James  Runner-up-Stephanie Davies

Womens over 55s   Winner-Shirley James  Runner-up-Valerie Alder

Mens Open     Winner-Nikki Giles  Runner-up-Simon Richards

Mens Open B  Winner-David Lecoq Runner up-Witold Stephens-Kedziola

Mens over 45s   Winner-Mark Rowe  Runner-up-Stephen Patient

Mens over 50s   Winner-Mike Harpin   Runner-up-Paul Thompson

Mens over 55s   Winner-Myles Collett  Runner-up-Peter Ford 

Mens over 55s B  Winner-C hris Evans Runner up-John Miller

Mens over 65s   Winner-Peter Boshier-Jones  Runner-up-Geoffrey Dimmock

Feedback from players was very positive and both Donna and I who run the tennis events organisation “Tennis Solutions” hope to organise similar events in the future, perhaps annually or six-monthly.

 
 

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