SUMMER SPORT
BOYS’ TENNIS Senior Report 1ST TEAM = P5 / W2 / D1 / L2 2ND TEAM = P3 / W1 / D0 / L2
At senior level, in terms of our performance in national competitions, this year has been the most successful in the last twenty-five! In the Senior Students AEGON winter competition, both the mixed doubles team (Oscar and Cordie Cavill, Tom Loten and Bryony Underwood/Tash Leach) and the boys’ team (Oscar, Jonty Atkinson, Tom and Oli PeekeVout) made it through to the last 16, and would have had a great chance of reaching the national finals had they avoided defending champions Strathallan (Perth). Hopefully, due to the distance between the schools, this won’t happen again in the regional knockout rounds! In the Glanvill Cup summer competition, the boys’ team reached the Yorkshire/ Lancashire final before again falling one match from the national finals, as an
extremely highly rated team (based at the Graves Tennis Centre) from Notre Dame, Sheffield, proved just too strong for us. In the U18 York League, we finished runners-up behind a very strong team from Poppleton Tennis Club (but really well played to Oscar for winning the top singles rubber in that match).
Sadly in routine school fixtures this term, when we were rarely at full strength due to Jonty and Tom playing 1st XI cricket. Well played to all boys this year. TML
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