Winter Regional Tours

This weekend Charlotte Margetson played in a U12 Winter Regional Tour U12 at Wirral Tennis Centre. Charlotte’s first match was against Melanie Griffiths, a 7.1. Unfortunately, Charlotte lost her first game 5-7, 1-6, despite playing really well and hitting a lot of winners in the first set. Charlotte began to get a bit tired in the second set, resulting in …

Brilliant Weekend of Tennis

Last weekend saw two of Thongsbridge’s Juniors competing in different events. Lucy Margetson was competing in a Grade 4 event in Nottingham. Lucy began the weekend with a tough draw, playing the number 2 seed, Freya Hampson Evans. Lucy lost 4-0 4-0 but did well to stay in the points and defend a lot of Freya’s attacking shots. Lucy’s 2nd …

Yorkshire Ladies’ Winter County Cup

This weekend saw 4 of our members play for the Yorkshire Ladies’ County Team in Division 2a. Kim Atkinson, Holly Horsfall, Olivia Noble and Sophie Dodds competed this weekend alongside 4 other Yorkshire Ladies including Katie O’Brien, a former British number 1! The ladies began their weekend against Warwickshire. After 6 singles matches, 3 being won by Kim, Holly and …

Junior Presentation Evening

Last weekend Thongsbridge Tennis Club held its annual Junior Presentation Awards Evening. This evening recognises the success of the junior’s throughout the coaching program. Below are the awards that were received on Saturday; Mini Club Championships Mini Red Winner – Tommy Vale Mini Red Runner-Up – Zack Lloyd Mini Orange Winner – Dominic Vesely Mini Orange Runner-Up – Gabriella Lindley …

A ‘Great’ Weekend

Thongsbridge’s young star Barney Fitzpatrick was selected to represent Team GB in a five nation tournament at the Queenswood School in Hertfordshire at the end of June. He played one singles match against Holland, Belgium, Croatia and the Czech Republic. The GB team put in some great performances to come 3rd behind the Czech Republic and Croatia after a great …

Scottish Grade 2!

Dominic Vesely, together with Alex Tikhonov and Gabriella Lindley, competed at the beginning of June in the Scottish G2 National Tour held in Glasgow. Dominic carried his form and confidence from his recent wins to the Glasgow event. Whilst still in a younger age group than majority of the competitors, he qualified from the group stages to the main draw …

Spring Bank Round-Up

The Summer tennis season is in a full swing and the Thongsbridge juniors have been busy collecting valuable wins and trophies in the half term holiday. The Thongsbridge Tennis Club juniors have been at Go Outdoors Junior Open in Doncaster in force. Seven boys and a girl competed in the main draw in 9U event. The boys event was won …

Holly Wins Her First ITF Doubles Title!

Holly Horsfall travelled to Podgorica, Montenegro this week with International Travelling Coach Rob Smith. Making main draw in the singles, unfortunately she went down in the first round to her Serbian opponent, Milica Cubranovic, 6-2 7-6(5). But it was the doubles where she progressed this week. Playing with fellow British partner, Lauryn John-Baptiste from Middlesex, the pair were ranked no.4. …

Team Tennis Begins

The end of April traditionally means the start of the team tennis competitions. Thongsbridge young guns have been in action in all age groups. The 12U boys team of Oliver Vesely, Oscar Jessup, Robert Sandiford and Jacob Chadwick started strongly in their first match of the Aegon Team Tennis Premier Division, beating Virgin Active, Middleton 8:4. Robert Sandiford and Jacob …