Another large entry for Saturdays (23rd) 2nd last under 12s event for the Red2Yellow winter tour. We have originally 16 boys entered but this was reduced for a varity of reason down to 12 and they were joined by 7 girls.

The players had travelled from Glasgow, Edinburgh, The border, Ayrshire, Cumbria and Newcastle area as well as 3 local with Eve , Flynn and Fergus from Dumfries.

In the boys event well done to the favorite Archie Agnew who won all his matches as he beat fellow Cumbrian Ross Lear in the final. In the girls event well done to Julia Janowska (Edinburgh) who beat Kathleen Anderson (Borders). Jamie Parry (Cumbria) and Lucy Nisbitt (Prestwick) won their respective consolation events.

12s Leaderboard

Results

All 3 Dumfries kids struggled in the windy conditions although they had some promising play through-out the day.

Also, big thank you to Cath and Kate for keeping us all fed and watered.

Annan Tennis Club played host to the 2nd round of the 2019 D&G Mini Red Tour. This round was all D&G players with 8 boys and 7 girls all playing to secure those medals and add points to the leaderboard.

In the boys event we had 2 round robin groups and after these were completed we had the same 4 Dumfries boys in the semi final as we had in previously Dumfries event with Logan McCluskey, Dominik Czopek, Jack Wearing and Ethan Leyman. In the consolation event Adam Hunter (Dumfries) edged past Sam Donnelly (Dalbeattie) 10-6 with Isaac Sharp (Dumfries) beating Joseph George Wylie (Annan Seaforth TC) 10-4 in the 7th & 8th play-off match.

Both semi finals were tight affairs as the parents were treated to some brilliant tennis. Dominik edge the tightest of matches against Ethan 10-9. In the other semi favourite Logan McCluskey held his nerve to beat Jack 10-7 to set up a final against Dominik. Ethan produced a great come back to claim third place with a 10-9 win over Jack. In the final Dominik took the first point against the serve before Logan rattled off the next 3 points before Dominik levelled at 3-3. The points then ebbed and flowed before Dominik took a 6-5 lead, then Logan used all his experienced to shorten the points to win the next 5 points to claim his 2nd tour win. By winning this event Logan becomes the only boy in the 4 years of this event to win 2 events in the same year, the only other player to win 2 events was Euan Sharp who won his first in 2016 and his 2nd in 2017.

D&G Mini Red Tour Leaderboard 2019

D&G Mini Red Tour Results

In the girls event we had a round robin with all 7 girls playing against each other to see who could take the gold medal and potentially jump to the top of the leaderboard. The early rounds saw 3 girls winning back to back matches as Caitlin Topping, Lucy Scade (Both Dumfries) and Annan’s Erin McKenna all starting well. Lucy made it 4 from 4 as she ended Caitlin’s winning streak with a 10-8 victory and Erin match that score as she also beat Caitlin 10-8 to make it 5 out of 5. The other 4 Dumfries girls all managed at least a win with sisters Ailsa and Hannah Goldie getting a win each, Stella Hodgins secured 2 wins and Abigail Warren matched Caitlin with 3 wins. This left Lucy against Erin to see who would secure the gold medal. The girls went toe to toe in the early stages as the score reached 3-3 before Lucy stretched this score to 8-5 but Erin kept coming and started to eat into the lead point by point until she secured the win to claim a 10-8 victory and by doing so claim the event win and became the first Annan girl to win a D&G Mini Tour event.

This leaves Logan and Erin top of their leaderboards with the final event scheduled for March 24th at the Loreburn Hall in Dumfries.

The results and leader can be viewed using the links above.

All scheduled events for 2019 are listed in the link below. Looking forward to another busy year for D&G tennis.

Tennis events for 2019

After it’s winter break the D&G Red2Yellow Winter Tour returned with the 9s and under kids competing in the 3rd Orange event of the 4.

We had 9 boys and 7 girls competing for the top prize.

In the girls event Eva Hutchins (David Lloyd Edinburgh) took the top prizes and she beat Becky MacLeod (Gleneagles Arena) 10-7. In third place was Luisa Cartwright (Western LTC Glasgow) who bt Autumn Hodgins (Dumfries TC) 10-2. Grace Palmer, Lauren Gourley both (Moffat TC) and Eilidh Topping all did well in their first Orange competition.

In the boys event there was a strong field with 5 Orange 1 players, unfortunately none of the D&G players made it into the last four. In the first semi final Euan Tait (Kilmarnock TC) over came Oliver Clark (Corstorphine LTC Edinburgh) 10-7 and Rory Robb (David Lloyd Edinburgh) bt Oscar Emery (Western LTC) 10-6 in the other. Both Rory and Euan played a good final with Rory edging it 10-5. In the consolation event Logan overcame hitting partner Grant Kerr 10-5, both Dumfries. Harry Brown (Moffat TC) and Lewis Hutchins & Cameron Hunter completed the line-up.

In the race for the Leaderboard title Oliver Clark stretched his lead over Logan McCluskey and Luisa over took Autumn to lead by 4 points.

D&G Red2Yellow Winter Tour – Orange Leaderboard

D&G Red2Yellow Winter Tour – Orange Results