This years winter league starts on Sunday 5th March with defending champions Dalbeattie away to Dumfries. Elsewhere Annan Seaforth who are making their debut in the event are away to Kirkcudbright.

Fixtures and results (when available) can be viewed using this link. D&G Winter Leagues 2017 – Fixtures and Results

Annan Tennis club hosted the second of the three tours with 19 local kids entered into the boys and girls events. With 14 boys and 5 girls there were a total of 52 matches to get through with a 4 round robin groups and then knock stages after that.

Again there was some great tennis from the kids with players from Annan, Dumfries and Moffat all competing for the medals on the day and the overall title in the leaderboard.

After the boys round robin events we had 6 going forwards to the main quarter finals and 8 going into the consolation event. The 2 quarter finals results were Harry Brown against the Dumfries winner Oliver McKnight with Harry taking the hard fought match 10-6, in the other Q-final Devon Jones won the battle of the Annan boys as he beat Thomas McCleary 10-5. Again in the semi finals we had 2 Moffat boys and 2 Annan boys competing again each other for a place in the final. In the first semi Daniel McKenna bt Devon Jones 10-2 and in the 2nd Harry Brown edge a tight match against Finlay Walton 12-10. In the final Daniel bt Harry 10-3 to claim his first Tour title and send him to the top of the leaderboard. In the third and fourth play-off Devon took the spoils with a 10-8 win over Finlay and in the Consolation final it was two Dumfries boys as Logan McCluskey went one better than in Dumfries as he beat Rhys Edwards 10-4. This leaves Daniel top of the leaderboard on 165, Oliver slips to second on 135 with Harry up to Third on 110.

DG Mini Red Tour Leaderboard 2017

In the girls event we had 5 girls taking part with Erin McCluskey (Dumfries) gaining her second title as she edge past Annan’s Mia Renwick with Beth Baikie (Moffat), Sian Henderson and Erin McKenna both Annan completing the places. Erin sits top of the leaderboard with Beth in second.

The final event takes place in Moffat on 26th March. D&G Mini Red Tour Annan Results

Mia, Erin, Devon, Rhys, Daniel with Logan and Harry at the front

This Saturday (18th) see the second of the D&G Mini Red Tour rounds as the kids head to Annan. With Oliver and Erin sitting at the top of each group there will be a lot of kids looking to outplay them on the day to try and take the top spot. The closing date is Friday so there’s still time to enter, just drop an email to michael at tennis@dumfriessportsclub.co.uk

Seven of the regions kids took part in an 9 and under competition at Carlisle on Sunday.

Rose, Flynn, Danny, Jacob, Fergus, Ben and missing is Kyle

There were 14 kids in total with the format being 2 round robin groups of 7 players in each, then a play-off for each position.

The results will be loaded shortly and can be viewed here.  Results

All the kids played 7 matches between the indoor courts and the outdoor courts at Chatsworth Tennis Club in Carlisle. There was some great tennis on the day from all the kids and despite some kids not getting the results they wanted all kids showed some good early season form as they returned from the winter break. The top five places were secured by D&G kids with Fergus Reynolds-Lewis (Dumfries) edging a tight match against Daniel McKenna (Annan) 10-7. The 3rd and 4th place play-off was between Moffat duo of Ben Rogerson and Rose Brown with Ben just holding off Rose 10-9. In fifth place was Flynn Dalgliesh from Annan who played some of the most consistence tennis all day. The final two boys, Jacob and Kyle should be very happy with their days play also, they played some very good tennis in patches and will now look to gain more experience in the upcoming months. Many thanks to all the parents for their time and big thanks to Tracey Burrus for running a great event.

Tennis Scotland are running a Competition Organisers course in Dumfries on Saturday 11th March between 1pm and 4pm. The course is free and will cover the basics of running an event at your club.

They will take you through the step by step guide to organising and running an event, discuss which formats suit what and how you prepare for your events from start to finish. This is ideal for all clubs who are looking for ideas to create more simple events at your club.

To reserve a place just email Michael at tennis@dumfriessportsclub.co.uk

The course is booked in at Dumfries Ice Bowl, King Street, Dumfries, DG2 9AN on Saturday 11th March between 1pm and 4pm.