14U Boys qualify for Finals!
14U Boys qualify for Finals!

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This year’s 14U Boys County Cup was held over the weekend of Saturday 3rd – Sunday 4th May and we were in Play-Off Group 1A at South Devon TC, Ivybridge.

The Team was:                 Ben Coxon, William Durman, Oluwamurewa Egbeyemi, Filip Kaminski, Ollie Wright, Jasper Yu

Team Captains:               James Neate and Paul Scullard

Other counties:               Avon, Bedfordshire, Dorset, Devon, South Wales.

We were in Group A with Devon and South Wales

Day 1 match 1 v South Wales

We had a good start as after the singles, we were 4-0 with Ben and Ray wining their match tie-breaks.  In the doubles, we won doubles 2 (William and Ollie) and lost doubles 1 (Ben and Filip).

Day 1 match 2 v Devon

After the singles we were 3-1 up with wins from Ben, William and Ray with Filip losing a close match 7-10 in the match tie-break.  So we just needed one doubles win to win the Group.  Ben and William had a close match and won the first set tie-break, lost the second set and went down 5-10 in the match tie-break.  Ray and Jasper won at doubles 2 10-5 in their match tie-break.

So we were top of Group A and had a chance of getting to the Finals!

Day 2 – Play-off for Finals – Avon

We had to wait until lunchtime for Group B to finish and to know we were up against Avon.

Ben, William and Jasper won their singles so we were 3-1 going into the doubles and Ray and Jasper won at doubles 2, so we had won through to the Finals.

A big well done to the team on a fantastic result and we will be going to Nottingham TC for the finals over the weekend of Friday 16th – Sunday 18th May.

James Neate, County Captain

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