Annual Report 2020/21 Junior Tennis
2020/21 JUNIOR TENNIS By Paul Weaver
Still only 9 years old Max was determined to retain his title and pulled away after sharing the first 6 games to take the title 6/3
U12s finalists & semi-finalists
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s with all other sections of Real Tennis, all over the world the Junior season here was badly affected by court closures. However, in the end we managed to complete most of our national competitions.
Wellington whose help enabled this event to happen under the most difficult of conditions. Thanks of course also to the T&RA who sponsored the event and to The Dedanists’ Foundation for providing tournament shirts.
The U12 and the U14 events were held at Radley at the end of October. In the final of the U12s Laszlo Garson came up against last years’ winner Max Warner. Still only 9 years old Max was determined to retain his title and pulled away after sharing the first 6 games to take the title 6/3. There were many fine performances in the U14 section but the big story was Henry Weekes (RTC) making it through from the first group all the way to the final. There he finally met his match and lost to Henry Henman (Radley) 6/1 6/0. Also at the end of October, the U16/U18 events got under way at Wellington. The final of the U16s was an all Seacourt affair with Max Trueman proving to be far too strong for James Medlow, Max winning fairly comfortably in the end 6/1 6/2 to take the title back to Seacourt as many have done before! In the U18 section Seacourt once again dominated with Max Trueman reaching the final to play last years’ winner William Flynn. The standard of play just got better and better. There was a great performance by Max Trueman who is two years younger than Will but it was the number 1 seed William Flynn (Seacourt) who prevailed after a tough match winning 6/4 6/2. Thanks go out for all the hard work done by Chris Ronaldson and Nino at Radley and Adam Player at
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Left: Max (runner up) & Will, British U18 Champion 2020
