Our district is looking to return to the Scottish Inter-District Team Championship for the first time since 2017.
This event invites all 9 Scottish districts to attend and it’s for 18s and under, 15s and under and 12s and under players, 2 boys and 2 girls in each team. To give our kids an identity the District has created a new badge to attach to their tennis gear.
The event is scheduled to run in the Easter holiday with the East of Scotland, The Highlands, North East of Scotland, Ayrshire, The Borders, Central Scotland, Tayside, West of Scotland and Dumfries & Galloway.
Today, we saw the final round of games for the D&G Mini Red Tour 2022, which is now in its 7th year.
We had a smaller girls event this year with only 4 today and 5 overall for the leader board. Defending champions and aiming to be the first ever player, boy or girls, to win back-to-back D&G Mini Tours was Emily Warren. Emily won the November event and was the current Dumfries Tennis Club 8s and under champion. Emily was up against 3 Dumfries Club players who were looking forward to the challenge. Ella Zaremba, Olivia Gordon and Esme Rogerson. The young trio played well but Emily’s experience was just too much on the day as she gained 3 wins out of 3 to take the title on the day and overall Leaderboard. The 3 girls battled it out for 2nd on the day and runner-up on the leaderboard. There was not a lot in it, as Ella bt Esme, Esme bt Olivia and yes you guested it, Olivia bt Ella which left Esme as runner-up on games percentage.
Well done to all our young ladies and we look forward to seeing them all for years to come.
In the boy’s event we welcomed 9 players. We had 6 Dumfries boys with Samuel Zaoral, Cameron Hodge, Ethan Lees, Ethan West, Blair Dalzell and Louis Darrant. They were joined by Layton McGimpsey from Dalbeattie TC, Calum Grant from Gretna/Canonbie and from Giffnock Tennis Club in Glasgow we had James Crowther.
The round robin groups saw James top his group with Cameron going through as runner up. In the other group Layton McGimpsey top his group with Sam as runner up.
The consolation side saw wins for Ethan L bt Ethan W, Calum bt Louis, Ethan L bt Blair with Calum winning the consolation final 10-3.
In the main draw semi-final Cameron edge a tight one against Layton 10-8 with James beating Samuel 10-5. Samuel took the 3rd place win against Layton. The final was a repeat of the group match as Cameron took the first point before James took control and rattled of the next 4. Cameron battled well to get to 6-4 but James played a well-controlled match to run out a 10-4 win.
Some brilliant rallies from several players, well done to the little stars.
With Emily taking the girls leaderboard then the count began to see who would take the boys. Layton came third with a 3rd and 4th place over the 2 events, Cameron was runner-up twice but the overall winner went to Samuel Zaoral who won the first event and came 3rd today, just edging past hitting partner Cameron.
Great to see the kids playing some good tennis today.
The district leagues are back with a record number of teams entered for 2022.
We have 11 men’s teams and 9 women’s team’s this year covering Dumfries (7), Kirkcudbright (4), Dalbeattie (3), Annan and Moffat both with 2 teams and Stewartry CSC and Gretna/Canonbie with 1 Women’s team each.
This means we have 2 leagues for the first time for both the men’s and women’s teams.
The final event of this years D&G Mini Red Tour had 13 Boys and 6 Girls competing for the medals on the day and the Leaderboard Plaque to hold for a year and stamp their name in D&G Tennis history.
The boys event had 3 round robin groups with the top 2 in each group going into the quarter finals along with the best two 3rd place players. Group A saw Jacob Moore (Thorn Park in Glasgow), Max Dunlop (Kirkcudbright TC) and Noel Cullen (Dumfries TC) as one of the best 3rd place players qualifying for the quarters. Group B players making it in were Olivier Czopek and Samuel Zaoral (Both Dumfries) and Oscar Cairns (Gretna TC) with Group C players being Dumfries Duo Keir MacIntyre and Logan McIntyre.
In the consolation event Niall Muirhead (Gretna TC) edge past Lewis Weir (Dumfries) before losing to Dalbeatties Layton Mcgimpsey in the semi final. In the other semi final Tom Dunlop (Kirkcudbright TC) beat Jasper Burns (Dalbeattie TC). In a tight final Layton held on to complete a 10-8 victory over Tom to win the consolation event.
Tom & Layton
In the quarter finals of the main draw there were wins for Noel 10-9 against Jacob, Logan 10-4 against Oscar, Keir 10-8 against Max and Olivier 10-2 against Samuel. This left 4 Dumfries boys to play for the title. Noel bt Logan 10-7 whilst Olivier bt Keir 10-8. Keir claimed 3rd spot with a 10-6 win over Logan with Olivier taking the final 10-4 against Noel and with that secured the leaderboard title.
Noel, Olivier, Logan & Keir
In the girls event the 6 girls completed a round robin group with every girl getting 5 matches. Emily Warren (Dumfries TC) and Fallon McGimpsey (Dalbeattie TC) each won their first 2 matches to sit joint top of the table with Gabriella and Ophelia Forrest (Annan Seaforth TC), Elspeth Dorrian (Kirkcudbright TC) and Hannah Imrie (Canonbie TC) all competing for the remaining places. Fallon edge the game against Emily to sit top and eventually win the event with 5 wins out of 5. Emily managed 4 wins out of 5 to come 2nd with Gabriella, Hannah, Elspeth and Ophelia completing the line up. This left Emily with the most points to secure the 6th Leaderboard title and the 5th time it has been won by girls from Dumfries Tennis Club.
Big Thank you to all the kids who played really well, Thank you also, to the parents for bringing the kids through and to Dominik, Nathan, Erin, Fergus and Tony for helping with the scoring on the day. Thank you all and looking forward to seeing you all in 2022.
Emily, Hannah, Gabriella, Ophelia, Fallon and Elspeth.
It has been a 19 months break but today (28th) the D&G Mini Red Tour made a welcome return. This event is for 8s and under kids starting out on their Tennis adventure.
The event is now in it’s 6th year and 6 players from that original event are still playing Tennis in D&G.
D&G Mini Red Tour 2021
We had 12 boys today and 5 girls with 5 calling off due to the snow. In the boys event we had 7 Dumfries players, 2 from Kirkcudbright Community Tennis Club, 1 each from Dalbeattie and Gretna Tennis Clubs and one player travelling all the way from the Borders.
With some very exciting tight matches we had Olivier Czopek, Noel Cullen, Keir MacIntyre and Logan McIntyre from Dumfries qualify for the quarter final matches alongside Max and Tom Dunlop from Kirkcudbright Tennis Club, Andrew Kalotka from Dalbeattie TC and William Forbes from the Borders. We had Keir, Olivier, Max and William all winning tight matches to set up semi-final matches with Olivier edging the match against Keir 10-3 to make the final against Max who just got a win over William 10-8. William took 3rd place against Keir before Olivier took the final against Max 10-5.
In the consolation matches Samuel Zaoral and Lewis Weir from Dumfries made the final with wins against Baxter Jardine (Dumfries) and Niall Muirhead (Gretna) with Samuel just taking the tightest of matches against his training partner 10-9. Well done to all those boys today.
In the girls event we had 5 of the regions girls competing in a round robin group. Dumfries’s Emily Warren just claimed top spot with more points won than Hannah Imrie from Canonbie who came 2nd with Gabriella Forrest from Annan Seaforth taking 3rd with Elspeth Dorrian from Kirkcudbright and Emily Verschuren coming 4th and 5th respectfully. Again some brilliant matches for the girls.
Emily W, Hannah, Emily V, Elspeth and Gabriella
The final event is schedule for Sunday 12th December in the David Keswick Centre again. The results can be viewed in the link below and the current table.
The date was the 18th September 2019, this was the last time we manged to play a D&G Mixed Doubles league match in the region.
Fast forward to present day and plans are in place to re-start our Women’s and Men’s Doubles leagues from May 26th 2021, almost 20 months on.
This years reduced program see 5 Women’s teams trying to stop Stewartry CSC women from claiming their 5 title in a row. In the Men’s two leagues Annan Seaforth will be trying to bounce back to the top league as they take on teams from Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Moffat. Newly promoted Moffat will join Dalbeattie, Dumfries B & C in trying to stop Dumfries A claiming their tenth title in a row.
This years leagues will be played under a slightly different atmosphere as we are unable to provide teams at this time but lets hope for a good competitive league campaign.
All fixtures and results once completed can be found in the link below.
Dumfries Tennis Club made the 60 mile trip to Galashiels to compete in the inaugural Border Challenge Cup. This event was put together by Dumfries Tennis Club to give their players an opportunity to play team tennis which currently doesn’t happen. The format would see 12s and under, 10s and under and 9s and under kids competing in a 1 day event .
The teams were made up of 13 players in each team with the Borders having 11 Boys and 2 Girls and Dumfries having 6 Girls and 7 Boys. The age groups had 5 players in the under 12s, 4 in the under 10s and 4 in the under 9s with 63 matches to get through on a dreich Scottish day. The young Dumfries team made a mixed start on the 6 courts and at the half way stage of the singles it was the Borders select team who were 5-3 up in the 9s event. In the 10s event Dumfries started well and took a 6-2 lead with the Borders edging their Dumfries counterparts 7-6 in the under 12s event. This had Dumfries in front overall 15- 14 as we entered into the final stages.
At the end of the singles matches the scores had Dumfries 16-9 in front in the 12s event with Dumfries Ethan Leyman winning 5 out of 5 singles matches. In the 10s event Dumfries were 10-6 in front with the Borders Lara Abdrabbo winning her 4 matches. The Borders were 11-5 in front in the 9s event with the youngest player in the event, Dumfries’s Adam Hunter winning all 4 of his matches.
With 6 doubles matches to play Dumfries needed one win to secure the trophy as they led 31-26. This was secured as each team claimed a victory in each age group. The final results had the Borders winning the 9s event 12-6, Dumfries secured the 10s event 11-7 and the 12s event 17-10. With Dumfries winning overall 34-29.
The Dumfries team was Cameron Hunter, Ethan Leyman, Logan McCluskey, Autumn Hodgins and Eilidh Topping in the 12s event. Dominik Czopeck, Jack Wearing, Nathan Zaoral and Abigail Warren in the 10s with Adam Hunter, Lucy Scade, Ruby Gordon and Caitlin Topping making up the 9s.
In the 2nd round of fixtures for the 2020 winter league, unfortunately the weather put paid to the Annan B v Dumfries A match, however the Dumfries B v Annan A match went ahead in windy and slightly damp conditions.
The defending champions travelled through to Dumfries for the 2nd week in a row as they tried to stop father and son pair building on their win last week. In the first match Michael Goldie held off a spirited Colin Grieve to take the first rubber 6-2, 6-4. In the 2nd match Fergus Reynolds-Lewis took on Irving MacKay and just edged a tight match as Dumfries took a 2-0 lead with a 6-3, 6-3 match score.
In the doubles, Dumfries took the first set before Annan got started which resulted in a tighter 2nd set. However the father and son duo held on to complete the match with a 6-1, 6-4 win.
DAN MASKELL MIXED DOUBLES TOURNAMENT
Dumfries & Galloway Tennis 