Tournaments

Tournaments

DUFFIELD TENNIS

2009 Club Championship results.

ADULTS

Men’s Singles WINNER Chris Beastall

                                      RUNNER – UP      Hudson Oakenfull

Men’s Doubles             WINNERS              Geoff Cook & Andy Livingston

                                      RUNNERS – UP     Nick Wharam & James Foulk

Mixed Doubles            WINNERS               Dave Dawkins & Aileen Hammersley

                                      RUNNERS – UP      Simon Bradford & Susan Holliday

Ladies Singles               WINNER                 Jenny Knibbs

                                      RUNNER – UP        Alice Wharam

Ladies Doubles             WINNERS               Alice Wharam & Jenny Knibbs

                                      RUNNERS – UP      Rikki Shepherd & Susan Holliday

JUNIORS

U-18 Boys Singles        WINNER                 Nick Fairhurst

                                      RUNNER – UP        Sam West

U-16 Boys Singles        WINNER                 Nick Fairhurst

                                      RUNNER – UP        Joel Mann

U-14 Boys Singles        WINNER                 Sam Tozer

                                      RUNNER – UP        Ben Gossling

U-12 Boys Singles        WINNER                 Oliver Storr

                                      RUNNER – UP        Finlay Johnson

Mini Red                       WINNER

                                      RUNNER – UP

Mini Orange                 WINNER                 Rhodri Waters

                                      RUNNER – UP        Ana Peters

Mini Green                   WINNER                 Noah Fellows

                                      RUNNER – UP        Harvey Bradford



Club Championships 2008

This year the Junior championships joined the Adult championships, all finals were held on Saturday, September 20. The weather had been kind for the preceding week and Finals were held in unbroken sunshine. It was a successful event and will be repeated next year, with the Adult / Junior Championship taking place in September 2009.





CLUB TOURNAMENT FINALS



Mens Singles

Winner, Filip Feret ..... Runner-up, Geoff Cook

The seeding was correct, the Final pitted No. 1 seed against No. 2 seed with the No.1 seed winning the title. The route was not easy though, Filip overcame Alex Harrison in a close early match, then met 16-year old Tom Lister in the semi-final. Tom won the first set, but Filip ended up as the winner in a very hard-fought match. Tom's serve is one of the best in local tennis and the match was played on Friday evening, with the Final following on Saturday morning.

Geoff had also completed some tough matches against Adam Stables and Andy Livingston, but the Final was over in 2 sets.

Both these finalists heralded a break in tradition, the event has previously been won by Mark Elks (5 times), Julian Harrison & Richard Harrison. The Final normally includes at least 1 of these 3 members.



Men's Doubles

Winners, Andy Livingston & Keith Stringer ..... Runners-up, Tom Lister & Mike Harwood

This Final was a 3-set marathon, each set being decided by a tiebreak. Tom's serve was virtually unbreakable but Andy and Keith just managed to win the final tiebreak and therefore the match in an entertaining, 2-hour game.





Vets Doubles

Winners, Rob Caranza & Janet Horsley ..... Runners-up, Tony Mockridge & Aileen Hammersley

Rob & Janet beat Tony & Aileen in a 2-set match. Hopefully next year, more people will enter this category as probably over 40 veterans play regularly at the club.

Boys 16 & Under Doubles

Winners, Nick Fairhurst & Sam West ..... Runners-up, Toby Garner & Geraint Waters

Thanks go to Toby & Geraint for playing in the Final as confusion led to their half of the draw not having been played. However they fought well and the stronger pairing of Nick & Sam won in 2 sets.





Ladies Singles

Winner, Carol Winfield ..... Runner-up, Ellie McCance

This was a repeat of last year's Ladies Final but the result was reversed. this time the more experienced Carol beat Ellie in 2 sets.



Boys 16 & Under Singles

Winner, Nick Fairhurst ..... Runner-up, Sam West

The pairing who had won the U-16 Doubles title now faced each other in the Singles final. Nick won in 2 sets.



Mini Orange

A Tournament was held by James Grindell and the winner was Patrick Hewitt.



Girls 14 & Under Singles

Winner, Louise Hobbs ..... Runner-up, Robin Spurr

Louise won the match by 2 sets to love.

Ladies Doubles

Winners, Carol Winfield & Rikki Shepherd ..... Runners-up, Gina Montgomery & Aileen Hammersley

This match went to 3 sets, Carol & Rikki eventually winning 4-6, 6-4, 6-4





Boys 12 & Under Singles

Winner, George Finney ..... Runner-up, Kyle McKenzie

George won the match by 2 sets to love.

Boys 14 & Under Singles

Winner, Kieran Hewitt ..... Runner-up, Simon Taylor

In a fairly close match, Kieran won in 2 sets.

Mixed Doubles

Winners, Adam Stables & Rikki Shepherd ..... Runners-up, Mike Harwood & Carol Winfield

Another lengthy 3-set match in which Adam & Rikki finally overcame Mike & Carol in the last match of a very successful, sunny day.



Played in 3 finals

Carol Winfield



Played in 2 finals

Rikki Shepherd, Aileen Hammersley, Mike Harwood, Sam West, Nick Fairhurst.











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LTA Junior Ratings Tournament

Completed on Friday, August 22, 2008

Organiser - James Foulk

RESULTS



        U-10 Boys

George Finney   beat   Ben Sanders 5-3 4-2

         U-10 Girls

Millie Davey Smith   beat   Lauren Prince 4-1 4-0

         U-12 Boys

Dominic Collins   beat   Jake Prime 3-5 4-2 10-2

        U-12 Girls

Charlotte Devey Smith   beat   Haruna Horie 4-2 4-1



        U-14 Boys

Daniel Lea   beat   Will Chick 6-4 6-4

   U-14 Boys doubles
Lea & Chick   beat   Cumming & Lambert 6-3 6-1



         U-14 Girls

Elizabeth Hall   beat   Rebecca Williams 6-3 7-6



         U-16 Boys

Edris Nikjooy   beat   Jonathan Hughes 4-6 6-1 7-6



         U-18 Boys

Dave Chera   beat   Tom Sanders 6-1 6-4

Duffield Club Championships 2007

MEN'S SINGLES

Mark Elks beat Julian Harrison in 3 sets. Mark has won the tournament 5 times in total but this is his first Duffield Closed win for a few years. In this year's Final, he beat last year's champion, Julian Harrison.



Mark Elks

LADIES SINGLES

Ellie McCance beat Carol Winfield in 3 sets.Carol has won the Ladies titles on many occasions but Ellie now seems to play a more consistent game and the 16 year old won through in the end.





              Carol Winfield                                               Ellie McCance



MEN'S DOUBLES

The strong pairing of Nick Wharam and Richard Brown eventually beat Hudson Oakenfull and Nick Fairhurst in 3 sets. Nick and Richard were number 1 seeds but had to battle hard to overcome Hudson and 14-year-old Nick Fairhurst on his first entry into the adult event.





Nick Wharam                                    Hudson & Nick Fairhurst

LADIES DOUBLES

Experienced players Carol Winfield & Aileen Hammersley beat youngsters Ellie McCance and Rikki Shepherd in 3 closely contested sets.





Carol Winfield & Aileen Hammersley

MIXED DOUBLES

Despite losing the first set, James Foulk and Gill Holt beat Mike Harwood and Caroline Wood in 3 sets. James is a part-time coach at Duffield and Caroline has played in our Ladies 1st team.





    James Foulk & Gill Holt                       Mike Harwood & Caroline Wood





         Gill Holt                                                      Caroline Wood



MEN'S PLATE

This was won in 2 sets by Wayne Wilkins who eventually overcame Richard Brown, both were glad that the event did not need a 3rd set!



  Wayne Wilkins

All events had one Umpire & Line Judge supplied by the LTA and the appetising food was prepared by Alison Knibbs and Carolyn.

THE DUFFIELD OPEN 2007

(2008 - Sat July 12-Sat July 19)

MEN'S SINGLES

Chris McPherson of David Lloyd's and Church Broughton won a 3-set closely fought final with Duffield's Richard Harrison. Richard won the first set and then had a chance to go 3-0 in the second set tiebreak, however Chris managed to win the tiebreak with some big serving. After a rain delay games were very close but Chris broke Richard's serve at 5-5 then held out for an entertaining win, 7-5 in the 3rd set.

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Winner - Chris McPherson

MEN's DOUBLES

Mark Elks and Richard Harrison overcame Ashby's Chris Vernon and Harry Winter in 2 sets. Chris Vernon, Mark Elks and Richard Harrison were in 2 Finals and Harry Winter was in 3.

Mens Dubs 2 07

R's-U Chris Vernon & Harry Winter

MIXED DOUBLES

Mark Elks and Katherine Cook beat Chris Vernon and Isabelle Tyrrell in 3 sets. There were numerous long & eventful rallies but the final was very skilful and only decided near the end of the third set.

Mark & Kath

Mark & Katherine

Katherine Cook Chris Vernon

BOYS UNDER 12

This event was won by an unknown entry, Alex Molcarn from Slovakia. Alex is only 9 years old and gave away both age and height to his opponent Curtis Clarke, but Alex won through in 2 sets by playing accurate and competitive tennis.

BOYS UNDER 14

In his second final of the day, Curtis Clarke defeated Toby Cummings in 2 sets. Curtis won the first set then Toby went 5-2 ahead in the second, Curtis then played aggressive, consistent tennis and won the second set (and the Final) 7-5.

BOYS UNDER 16

Thomas Lister and Harry Winter played a 3-set thriller at the start of the day, with Harry Winter winning in the third. These were 2 skilful and competitive players who provided the spectators with an extremely entertaining match.

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Harry Winter & Thomas Lister battle for points.

BOYS UNDER 18

Following Harry Winter's U-16 Final was the U-18 Final where he met James Brunt from Leek. Harry was grateful that he managed to win in 2 sets but it was an eventful final and at times things seemed to be going James's way. Harry Winter was the eventual winner.