Dalbeattie and Dumfries title fight

Dumfries record back to back league wins to set-up a league decider with Dalbeattie.

Dumfries B entertained Dalbeattie on Sunday but found the visitors to strong on the day going down 3-0. Elsewhere Dumfries A travelled through to Lochmaben to play the young guns of Chad and Rhona and despite a good start from Lochmaben, Dumfries just edged a 2-1 win. Dumfries then entertained Kirkcudbright on Wednesday (26th) under the floodlights and again took a tight match recording a 3-0 victory. The title will be decided when Dalbeattie entertain Dumfries in the final match on Sunday 6th April, with the winner being crowned the inaugural D&G winter league champions.

D&G Winter League – Score and stats can be found using the link.

Standings of Dumfries & Galloway Winter League

    Points

Played

Rubbers

Sets

Sets %

Dalbeattie 6 3 8 1 16 2 88.9%
Dumfries 6 3 8 1 17 3 85.0%
Lochmaben 2 3 3 6 6 14 30.0%
Kirkcudbright 0 2 1 5 2 10 16.7%
Dumfries 2 0 3 1 8 4 16 20.0%

 

 

 

D&G Winter Leagues

Eventually, the D&G winter tennis leagues get under way.

With the first 2 rounds of matches being cancelled due to the wet weather it was a welcome relief to see the winter league matches start. The first 2 matches up were Dumfries 2 v Lochmaben and Kirkcudbright entertained Dalbeattie. Lochmaben secure a 2-1 victory against Dumfries 2 with Dalbeattie recording the same result 2-1 at Kirkcudbright.

This weeks results saw a 3-0 victory for Dumfries against Dumfries 2 and Dalbeattie beat Lochmaben 3-0.

Next week (23rd) sees both Kirkcudbright and Dalbeattie travelling to play Dumfries and Dumfries 2 respectfully.

D&G Tennis Leagues

Standings of Dumfries & Galloway Winter League

Points

Played

Rubbers

Sets

Sets %

1 Dalbeattie

4

2

5

1

10

2

83.3%

2 Dumfries

2

1

3

0

6

1

85.7%

3 Lochmaben

2

2

2

4

4

9

30.8%

4 Kirkcudbright

0

1

1

2

2

4

33.3%

5 Dumfries 2

0

2

1

5

4

10

28.6%

Dumfries Easter Junior Tournament

Dumfries Tennis Club is running a junior ratings competition on Good Friday, the event on Friday 18th April is taking place during the Easter holidays. There are 4 events on the day subject to numbers, 12s and under, 14s and under, 16s and under and finally 18s and under.

Complete the attached form to enter. DTC Easter entry form 2014

Age group calculator – LTA/

The link below takes you to the LTA site for this competition where you can see who has entered.

LTA Competition page