Despite the mid-week forecast the 2nd round of the D&G Red2Yellow Tour went ahead in great conditions for tennis. We had 10 kids in the Red (8s & under) event and 8 in the Orange (9s & under) event. There were 13 kids from Dumfries Tennis Club and 1 each from Hamilton, Gretna, Castle Douglas, Annan and Carlisle.
In the red event we had some good matches from a young field with only three 8 year old kids taking part. In the semi-finals we had Adam Hunter from Dumfries, Erin McKenna (Annan), Eamon McFarlane (Castle Douglas) and Elona Kennedy from Hamilton. Adam just edge past Erin 10-5 to book his place in the final to meet Elona for the 2nd time as she beat Eamon 10-4. Eamon took the 3rd place as he completed a win over Erin 10-3. Being the youngest in the field certainly didn’t hold back young Adam as he and Elona played some nice rallies for the 2nd time as Adam had just edged a tight match in the round robins 10-9. This time he secured the gold medal with a 10-4 victory. All the kids played really well and a big mentioned to Bethany Mann who was competing in her first event and although no wins she played some great points and will take that into her next event.
In the Orange event we had an 8 player round robin with a very mixed set of results. On the day Cameron Hunter joined his brother in winning the Orange event with 6 wins out of 7. Dominik Czopek came 2nd with 4 wins out of 7 with Autumn Hodgins also winning 4 out of 7 to take third on points won. Lewis and Jack also won 4 games with a lesser points total with Ethan & Toby getting 3 wins out of their 7. Again another special mention to Oliver Bryant who was playing in his first event and like Bethany he played some great points but just fell short on getting a win.
Well done to all the kids today and thanks to Tessa and Rich for helping with the scoring and to Nichola, Rebecca and Magdalena for helping out in the kitchen, very much appreciated.
Well done to the Hunter boys…
Dumfries & Galloway Tennis 