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Junior Performance programme
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The performance programme is split into 3 levels (PREformance, Performance & PROformance) across 14U, 16U and 18U Squads.
The PREformance Squads are aimed towards higher level club players that look to play a minimum of twice a week.
The Performance Squads are aimed towards regular competitors of the game with high aspirations.
The PROformance Academy Squads are aimed towards the highest level competition players including adults which have high aspirations.
JUNIOR PERFORMANCE PLAYER ACHIEVEMENTS
2 UK University / US College Placements • Alex Rintoul (University of Lynchburg,
Virginia, US) • Harry Lazell (University of Bath, UK)
13 County Players: *Maiden Year*
• Alex Rintoul, Will Barnes, Harrison Hart-
Buck & Aryan Mehta (Warwickshire 18U) • Ryan Stinton & Monty Thompson (Northamptonshire 18U) • Ottelia Tetley (Oxfordshire 18U) • Holly Jaques & Holly-Grace Ashford (Warwickshire 18U) • Marina Webb (Hereford & Worcestershire 18U) • Kit Todd, Isabella Andriotis & Harleen
Sethi (Warwickshire 10U)
2022 Tournaments - 35 Titles + 34 Finals:
• Alex Rintoul: 1 Final • Rowan Butler: 1 Title • Ryan Stinton: 11 Titles + 5 Finals • Holly-Grace Ashford: 2 Titles + 3 Finals • Monty Thompson: 1 Title + 2 Finals • Will Barnes: 1 Final • Ottelia Tetley: 7 Titles + 6 Finals • Marina Webb: 3 Titles + 1 Final • Harrison Hart-Buck: 4 Titles + 7 Finals • Aryan Mehta: 2 Titles + 2 Finals • Ellie Buttimore: 1 Title + 2 Finals • Kit Todd: 2 Titles + 4 Finals
Monty Thompson Ryan Stinton, who has represented WBC in the mens first team, and is a regular volunteer for the disability tennis group
Will Barnes Harrison Hart-Buck
Iam pleased to report that we have had another cracking season in the Coventry and District summer league. The first team, captained by Cameron Malik, took the Premier Division by storm again, winning by a clear margin of 8 points; they have topped the Premier Division since 2018. Gez McVeigh led the second team in another superb year, finishing fourth in the second division with younger players coming up through the teams into the top tier. Pete Walker’s 3rd team cemented their position in Division 1, with an excellent bronze medal in third place. The 4th team, driven forward by Jon Browning, secured promotion for the third consecutive year and will play in Division 2 next season. Our 5th team, marshalled by Adam Saumtally, secured promotion from Division 5 with a creditworthy silver medal.
Thanks must go to all of the captains for their teamwork and support. It’s been a successful summer season with lots of participation across all levels and some excellent tennis and great camaraderie; we are looking forward to start ing mens team winter practice on Tuesday 11th Oct at 7pm. Please let me know if you have not played team tennis at the boat club before and you would like to have a go.
Robert Pocknell
Congratulations to the Men’s First Team for winning the Coventry League for the third year in a row. Of even greater significance is retaining our position in the National League, one of only eight team in the whole of the UK. Players for 2023 include Mason Recci, Cameron Malik, Marcus Willis and Aaron Trainer. Final results from the summer league are detailed below.
Coventry and Warwickshire summer league
Mens 1 Premier division winners! Mens 2 4th in premier Mens 3 3rd in division 1 Mens 4 2nd in division 3 so promoted Mens 5 2nd in division 5 so promoted
National league:
Mens 1 staying in national Mens 2 Promoted to regional Mens 3 – 4th in div 2
Ladies 1 staying in regional Ladies 2 likely demoted to county Mixed open finished second in the league
The Ladies Team prizes were presented on Saturday 3rd Sept.
Thank you to Warwick Sports who sponsored the trophies & vouchers for our winners! We are looking forward to adding more categories for next season!
Well done to all our prize winners:
Most Committed player: Vicky Ward Most improved player: Marina Webb Best Young Player: Ellie Buttimore Best Newcomer: Holly-Grace Ashford Tie Break Titan: Jessica Bramley Best Player: Ottelia Tetley
WBC female team members other achievements:
Junior members’ successes: Ellie Buttimore & Aryan Mehta
came 3rd in their U14 County Champs XD – well done!
Holly Grace
Ashford was runner up the in the U18 Singles & U18 Doubles finals during Warwickshire County week – who then went on to compete in the Road to Wimbledon & won her doubles – Really well done! Ottelia Tetley plays for Oxfordshire County & won the U16 Mixed Doubles & U18 Girls Doubles trophy during their county week, she then went on to be chosen from over 400+ to be a ball girl at this year’s Laver Cup at the 02 in London!
Kara Biggs: Represented Warwickshire in Summer County Cup Week in Manchester Emma Hubbard: Represented Warwickshire at the O35 County Week in Eastbourne Helen Simpson: celebrated being part of the 040 Warwickshire County Team Viv Spencer & Jetta Cowan: celebrated being part of the O55 Warwickshire County Team
Sarah Tolliday & Marianne MacLeod:
celebrated playing in the successful O60 Warwickshire County Team Jane Robbins: celebrated being part of the O65 Warwickshire County Team
Jenny Waggot, Jackie Robinson, Susie
Rowe, Anna Potts & Jacky Sadler played in the Warwickshire County 70 & then played the semi-final of the National Inter Clubs O70
Isobel Ollis, Liz Graham & Margot Rawdon
played in the 075 Warwickshire County Team Jenny Waggot won the National grass court O75 doubles with Fran Maclellan U18 boys 3rd in division 1 U16 boys 5th in division 1 U14 boys 3rd in division 1 U16 girls top of division 1 U9 mixed bottom of div 1 U8 mixed bottom of division 1
Seniors
W50 losing draw in the 2nd round W60 lost in round 2 W65 lost in the quarter finals W70 into the quarter finals – yet to play M35 conceded a walkover Mens 45 loss in round 1 M55 lost in round 1 Junior mixed into the quarter finals – yet to play Senior mixed lost in 1st round
The winter league matches have now started with only a few matches having been played for each team so not a lot to report on yet.
HOT OFF THE PRESS:
Warwick Boat Club welcomes top female doubles player Soumeya Anane. We arevery excited to have her join our lovely club! At the start of the summer season, Warwick Boat Club Ladies Captain Marianne MacLeod & Team Tennis Representative Charlotte Taylor decided to ‘set goals’ for our ladies teams & we nearly achieved this! Everyone worked to together to achieved some fantastic results! We’re certainly looking forward to 2023!
LADIES RESULTS Premier Division
WBC 1 – Finished in Second place! Captain – Charlotte Taylor Division 1 WBC 2 – Finished in Second place! So promoted into the Premier Division for next season. Captain – Sarah Tolliday Division 1 WBC 3 – finished in 3rd place! Captain – Viv Spencer Division 3 WBC 4 – finished in 2nd place, so promoted into Division 2 for next season! Joint Captains – Angela Truman & Tracey Rigby Division 3 WBC 5 – Finished in 8th place, so sadly relegated back into Division 4 for 2023 Captain – Sue Hawkesford & Vice Maxine Browning
The men’s first team had their strongest season to date in the LTA National League, finishing 2nd in the Midlands Division (Top 8 in UK) gaining qualification into the national final play-offs. Unfortunately they were unable to earn their place in the finals. The team captained by Cameron Malik included himself, Arran Trainor, Daniel Dean, Reuben Newman-Billington, Jack Smith and Ryan Stinton. The WBC men’s first team is consistently proving to be the best performing team in Warwickshire and of any outdoor venue in the UK. Arran, Jack, Cam & Reuben
Amazing result! Promotion secured for the 2nd team, next year in the regional division. Really well done all that played their part this season... Ryan Stinton, George Morley, Yoan Tsonev, Pieter Uys-Barnard, Andy Davidson, Alex Rintoul, Gavin Henderson and Monty Thompson! Big thanks for Andy captaining the team this season. We will be one of the very few clubs in the UK with two teams in the National and Regional divisions! We areone of only three other clubs (Roehampton, Cumberland & Winchester) to have two teams in the national/regional divisions for men. Some achievement!
Autumn Group Coaching
Rusty Racquets for beginners/players returning to tennis.
Saturdays 12 noon and 1pm.
Contact Carey McClean or Richard Napier.
Monday evenings from 31 October
6.00pm Improvers 7.00pm Intermediate/topend mix-in standard
Wednesday evenings from 2 November
7.00pm Intermediate, as above. Mondays and Wednesdays are 6 week courses costing £48 (£8 per session). Contact Gavin Henderson
Daytime coaching run by Jenny Waggott and Jackie Robinson
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings during school term time.
Various sessions available - please contact Jenny or Jackie.
Full contact details are on the club website
Our coaching team
(in no particular order) Gavin Henderson Tennis manager/ Development programme Cameron Malik Performance and disability coaching Mason Recci Hitting partner. Mason (pictured right) has a current ATP world ranking of 1828. He is shortly going to Greece to play two ranking tournaments in Heraklion, Crete Steve Haywood Mini Red Funsho Ajibade Juniors Richard Napier Rusty Racquets Harry Green Saturday mornings Jackie Robinson Daytime coaching Jenny Waggott Coaching legend! Soumeya Anane (pictured right) recently joined our team and has a WTA ranking high of 600 Mason Recci
Soumeya Anane
Marcus on the road!
Marcus Willis has had a strong start returning to the World Tour, picking up ranking points in all 5 tournaments played so far including two quarter finals, one semi final, one final and a victory in Madrid, going from unranked to 730 on the ATP world leaderboard and is currently ranked 33rd in the UK.
Marcus is training before heading back to France, with some more ranking points to play for, not far off being able to enter ATP challenger events!
Marcus’ results so far, and partners that he’s played with:
JULY
Roehampton 25,000 Grass court quarter finalist (partner Mark Whitehouse)
AUGUST
Nottingham 25,000 Grass court Semi finalist (partner Dan Cox)
August Roehampton 25,000 Hard court finalist (partner Dan Cox)
SEPTEMBER
5th September Bagneres-De-Bigorre 25,000 + H Runners Up (partner James MacKinlay)
12th September Madrid 25,000 Hard court champions (partner Scott Duncan)
Doubles ranking. 730 ATP and number 33 In GBR.
UPCOMING TOURNAMENTS: October
France 25k/ Sunderland 25k/ Glasgow 25k/ France 25k
November
Sharm el Sheikh 25s + county cup!
Marcus with hitting partner, Luke Simkiss
In June this year Roger Federer released a video on social media inviting applicants between the ages of 12 and 16 to come to trials to be a ball kid for the Laver Cup. Ottelia applied and was invited to a 90 minute trial at the Olympic Park in London, on the weekend when numerous trials were run. At each one approximately 100 boys and girls were put through their paces, running, doing exercises, catching, throwing etc - all under the watchful eye of the assessors.
With such a large number of applicants the chance of being successful was slim so Ottelia was absolutely delighted when she received an email confirming she had been successful, one of only 12 girls and 24 ball kids. Over the next few months there were training sessions, each one back in London and 4 hours long, teaching them how to be ball kids. They all came from different backgrounds, were different ages but what they all had in common was tennis. The weekend of the actual Laver Cup was an absolutely amazing experience for Ottelia, starting with practice day on the Thursday when the big four (Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray) were all on court together for the first and only time (66 Grand Slams on one court at one time!). The next three days of the actual event was hard work, long days but brilliant fun. The kids worked in teams of six and had set positions. Ottelia was a centre - responsible for running the net. Ottelia met some tennis greats including Dyokovic, Murray and Federer but her absolute favourite player was Tiafoe. She was on court for Federer’s last ever match and picked up the very last ball hit after Team World won the Laver Cup. Overall it was an amazing experience for Ottelia, inspirational and inspiring, she wishes she could do it all over again.
Banbury Road planting programme
The shrubs and trees are now maturing as was envisaged. Thanks again to David Howells and his team for all their work,
