The Thongsbridge Tennis Club hosted its annual grade 3 Junior Open Tournament in the first week of March. Despite the tournament taking place outside the school holidays in most regions, the entry was once again high, and over 530 matches were played by the final Sunday. The Thongsbridge Tennis Club has the largest junior training programme in the region. All …
Gabriella’s Winning Weekend
Another great win for Gabriella Lindley of Thongsbridge Tennis Club. Gabby won her first Grade 3 competition, the 9u girls singles at the David Lloyd Club in Derbyshire. Gabby won all 4 of her matches from the 16 girl compass draw, beating the top 4 seeds to claim her winning trophy. She played some long and hard rallies, but managed …
Weekend Success
Barney Fitzpatrick, the talented Thongsbridge youngster, is going from strength to strength. Barney achieved his most outstanding tournament win in his career this week. Having won the grade 3, 12U Winter Regional Tournament earlier this month, Barney qualified for the grade 2 Winter National Tour event in Hertfordshire. Being younger than most of the players, Barney had to go into …
Junior update.
Gabriella Lindley, one of the up and coming stars of the Thongsbridge Tennis Club, competed in the 9U girls Lancashire County Tour event at South Ribble Tennis Centre last Saturday. Gabby, the number 2 seed, was in great form on the day. She played 6 matches in a round robin competition without dropping a set, and collected the winner’s medal. …
GB call for Barney!
Our former Under 9’s National Champion, Barney Fitzpatrick has started his 2014 season with a bang! Not only has he won 2 Winter Regional tour tournaments, but he has also been hand-picked to represent Great Britain at a tournament in Antwerp, Belgium at the end of February! Barney and his teammates, from Essex and Hertfordshire, will be taking on teams …
Juniors Shine!
Orla Cooper and Oliver Vesely continued in their good form in the Yorkshire Winter County Tour event at John Charles Centre for Sport in Leeds this weekend. Oliver came through a tough first match 4:2,1:4, and finally 10:7 in a tie break against his highly rated adversary Alexander Moore from Bolton Arena. Oliver took the winners medal in 12U age …
Girls on Form
The Thongsbridge girls Orla Cooper, Georgia Draper and Lucy Margetson have been in action this weekend. All three girls have recently moved up to the 12U age group and have been working hard to improve their rating. This will allow them to enter higher grade tournaments in the next season. They all had a successful weekend playing in Matchplays in …
Medals galore!
The latest round of the Winter Regional Tour tournaments for the 12U age group took place last weekend. Four boys from Thongsbridge Tennis Club qualified to play in the events. Barney Fitzpatrick and Oliver Vesely travelled to Hull for the weekend. They both showed great form and they only lost one set and one tiebreak in eight matches between them. …
Charlotte and Dominic hit the finals!
Charlotte Margetson had her first Green tournament win in the grade 4 Winter County Tour at Wrexham last week. As no.1 seed she had a bye in the 1st round, had a relatively easy semi-final but had to fight hard in the final against Amy Humphries. Her opponent hit hard and consistently and Charlotte did well to stay calm after …
End of year success!
Thongsbridge boys hit form just before the Christmas break in the latest round of Grade 3 Winter Regional Tours in the 12U age group. Barney Fitzpatrick dominated the tournament in Bolton, beating Ellison Sales, Danny Urey and Ali Hassan, dropping only 6 games on his way to the final where he faced old foe George Gallins from Ilkley Tennis Club. …