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DUFFIELD TENNIS
DUFFIELD TOURNAMENT
Any member of Duffield LTC can enter the club tournament.
Entry is free, trophies are given out after the Finals and kept for a year.
Matches to start on Saturday, September 4 and all Finals to take place on Saturday Sept 18.
Competitors to arrange their own matches, both Adults and Juniors.
On Finals Day, food will be available, Wimbledon umpires to officiate.
All contact details are on the noticeboard at the club.
Match details on our pages for Men, Ladies & Juniors.
DERBYSHIRE LTA CLOSED TOURNAMENT
This took place at Duffield between Monday, August 23 and Saturday, August 28.
Despite the first half of the week suffering from much rain and drizzle, the weather improved enough for the semi-finals to finish by Friday and all the matches were completed by 5.00 on Saturday.
A barbecue took place on Saturday afternoon and presentations were held outside, both for adults and juniors.
Chris Simpson claims a hat-trick of titles
at the Derbyshire County Closed.
Chris won the men's senior and under-21 singles events and the men's doubles, while only narrowly losing in the mixed doubles final.
Simpson beat Simon Thornewill 7-6 (7/3), 6-4 in the men's final before teaming up with Steven Amey to see off Simon Thornewill and James Grindell in the doubles. Katie Higson won the ladies singles & doubles Sam Ferguson won the under-12 and under-14 titles, beating Jay Clarke on both occasions. Katy Wilson won the Bramah Trophy for top junior performer, after taking the girls' under-14 and under-16 singles titles, and the under-15 girls' doubles crown.
COMPETITION RESULTS - Adults
Men's senior singles final: Chris Simpson bt Simon Thornewill 7-6(3), 6-4 Ladies' senior singles final: Katie Higson bt Gemma Praditngan 6-2, 6-0 Men's doubles final: Chris Simpson & Steven Amey bt Simon Thornewill & James Grindell 6-3, 7-6(1) Ladies' doubles final: Katie Higson and Gemma Praditngam bt Jane Rushby & Amy Harris 6-4, 6-1 Senior mixed doubles final: James Rushby& Jane Rushby bt Chris Simpson & Olivia Nelms 4-6, 6-2, 1-0(8) Men's over-35 singles final: James Foulk bt Mark McAnulty 7-5, 2-6, 7-6(4) Men's u21 singles final: Chris Simpson bt Ben Rushby 6-1, 6-0
COMPETITION RESULTS - Juniors Boys' u18 singles final: Sam Ashcroft bt Jon Hughes 6-4, 6-3 Boys' u18 doubles final: Ben Rushby and Jacob East bt Jon Hughes and Harry Winter 6-4, 3-6, 1-0(4) Girls' u18 singles final: Mary Langen bt Sarah Ashcroft 7-5, 6-0 U18 mixed doubles final: Ben Rushby & Olivia Nelms bt Jamie Praditngam & Sarah Ashcroft 6-1, 6-7(4), 1-0(9) Boys' u16 singles final: Jacob East bt Mandeep Sangha 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 Girls' u16 singles final: Katie Wilson bt Olivia Nelms 6-7(5), 6-1, 7-5 Boys' u15 doubles final: Curtis Clarke & Jay Clarke bt Robert Gardner & Mark Eastall 6-0, 6-0 Girls' u15 doubles final: Katy Wilson & Rebecca Williams bt Sarah Ashcroft & Mary Langen 7-6(5), 6-7 (5), 1-0(3) Boys' u14 singles final: Sam Ferguson bt Jay Clarke 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 Girls' u14 singles final: Katie Wilson bt Emily Hewland 6-2, 7-5 U14 mixed doubles final: James Ashcroft & Lauren Prince bt George Finney & Emily Bailey 6-4, 7-5 Boys' u12 singles final: Sam Ferguson bt Jay Clarke 6-2, 6-2 Girls' u12 singles final: Jane Devie-Smith bt Hannah Davey 6-2, 6-1 Boys' u12 doubles final: Christian Mills & Zak Wright bt James Ashcroft & Callum Edworthy 6-4, 6-4 Girls' u12 doubles final: Hannah Davey & Grace King bt Kelsey Hodgson & Teya Staniforth 7-5, 6-1 Boys' u10 singles final: Parras Joshi bt William Farr 4-1, 4-2 Girls' u10 singles final: Hannah Davey bt Grace King 4-0, 4-0 Boys' u9 singles final: Harry Finney bt Louis Kybird 7-1, 7-5 Girls' u9 singles final: Victoria Allen bt Charlotte Alin 7-1, 7-1 Boys' u8 singles final: James Donlan bt William Toft 10-5 SUMMER Tennis Season, 2010
2010's Summer League matches are mostly over, results will be here shortly when all have been completed.
COURT 7 is now RESURFACED
Artificial clay court now playable, booking system installed.
![]() Court 7, Artificial Clay
![]() COURT 7 being Re-surfaced
![]() TEAMS
This summer's Duffield tennis team results are as follows:BARBECUE A brick barbecue has been built on the grass at the bottom of the courts, for use by arrangement with the club.
Tennis Clubmark
Duffield has been awarded Clubmark, the fifth club in the county to earn this.
Congratulations to the club, and to everyone involved.
![]() ![]() Junior Group Coaching Programme
This has now been compiled by James Grindell, an abbreviated version is on the "Coaching & Juniors" page of this website. A full copy of the Programme has been sent to all club members. Assisting James are two other coaches now working at the Club, Tom Rushby and Simon Thornewill.
![]() ![]() ![]() MEN'S & LADIES CAPTAINS
The Men's Captain for 2010 is Andy Livingston, and the Ladies Captain is Carol Winfield.
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