Heswall Lawn Tennis Club Junior News

Posted on Monday, September 03, 2007

Junior News

The Road to Wimbledon tournament -

Girls:
Winner- Samantha Wileman
Runner-up - Katie Syvret

Boys:
Winner - Jacob Whalley
Runner-up - Tom Boon

Samantha Wileman took part in the County Road to Wimbledon event and has been asked to attend a day at Wimbledon on 25th August, have a great time Sam!

Cheshire:
  • Samantha Wileman was chose to play for Cheshire in the 16 Counties championships played at Northampton. Sam won all her matches.
  • Jacob Whalley represented Cheshire at Wavertree Tennis Centre. Jacob won his matches and Cheshire reached the final. Jacob also qualified for the Clay Court Championships.
  • Samantha and Jacob are ranked in the top five in Cheshire in the U12 age group and they both reached the semi-finals of the West Cheshire Tournament in July.

Tournaments:

Well done to all our tournament players especially Charlie Fachiri, Edward Sherrard, Alice Sherrard, Tom Pickford and Joe Phelan. Not forgetting Ian Burns who trains full time at Bolton.

Mini Tennis Green, Orange and Red tournaments as well as U12, U10, U14 Summer Series County Events have taken place at the club during the summer and all were well supported by members and players across the county. Watch out for the next events before christmas.

Summer Camp:

70 children attended the camp this year. Normally numbers are limited to 60 but due to a huge demand for this event we increased the number of campers.

Camper of the summer 2007 was Thomas Mabitt

The camp was lead by a team of ten coaches headed by Mal Jones and Sue Davies.

Autumn Camp:

The dates for the Autumn camp are from Monday 22nd October to Wednesday 24th October. 10 places have gone already!

Junior Night - Restarts on Friday 7th September.

Possible Future Events - to be confirmed:

Junior Disco for Primary School children on Friday 30th November

Trip to the pantomime at Christmas has also been suggested.