British Junior Real Tennis Championships 2020
Congratulations to Max Under 12 Winner), Henry (Under 14 Winner), Max (Under 16 Winner) and William (Under 18 Winner)
British Junior Singles Championships
Day 1. The flagship junior event of the year, postponed from August got off to a flying start yesterday, The U12 event was held at Radley with Laszlo (Oxford) winning a 5-5 all, 40 all point against Algernon (Wellington) to go through to the final.
In the final he came up against last years’ winner Max. Still only 9 years old Max was determined to retain his title and pulled away after sharing the first 6 games to take the title 6-3.
At the same time, the U16 event got under way at Wellington. The final group consisted of Bertie (Queens), James (Queens) and Max (Seacourt) with James and Max going through to play in the final. Although James performed really well and shared some great rallies, Max was far too strong, winning fairly comfortably in the end 6/1 6/2 to take the title back to Seacourt as many have done before!
DAY 2
The U14 event took place at Radley. There were many fine performances but the story of the day was Henry (RTC) making it through from the first group all the way to the final. There he finally met his match and lost to Henry (Radley) 6/1 6/0.
Meanwhile at Wellington the U18 event was underway. After 2 qualifying groups the final group of 4 consisted of Willem (Wellington), Max (Seacourt), Magnus (Oxford) and last years’ winner William (Seacourt). The group was dominated by the 2 Seacourt boys who went through to face each other in the final. In the final the standard of play just got better and better. A great performance by Max who is 2 years younger than Will but it was the number 1 seed Will who prevailed after a tough match winning 6/4 6/2.
Thanks go out for all the hard work done by Chris Ronaldson and Nino at Radley and Adam Player at Wellington whose help enabled this event to happen under the most difficult of conditions. Thanks of course also to the T&RA who sponsored the event and to The Dedanists’ Foundation for providing tournament shirts.
Paul Weaver – Director of Junior Tennis
Results:
U12 Max bt Laszlo 6/3
U14 Henry bt Henry 6/1 6/0
U16 Max bt James 6/1 6/2
U18 William bt Max 6/4 6/2
Under 12 Results Saturday 31 October (Radley)
- Max bt Laszlo 6/3
- Algernon bt Darcie 6/0
- Laszlo bt Darcie 6/1
- Max bt Algernon 6/2
- Laszlo bt Algernon 6/5
- Max bt Darcie 6/1
Final
- Max bt Laszlo 6/3
Under 14 Sunday 1 November (Radley)
Group A
- Henry bt Hugo 6/0
- Theodore bt Hugo 6/2
- Henry bt Theodore 6/1
Group B
- Max bt Ben 6/4
- Henry bt Ben 6/1
- Henry bt Max 6/2
Group C
- Henry bt Henry 6/0
- Henry bt Henry 6/1
- Henry bt Henry 6/2
Final
- Henry bt Henry 6/1 6/0
Under 16 Results Saturday 31 October (Wellington)
Group A
- Joseph bt Henry 6/3
- Joseph bt George 6/0
- George bt Henry 6/4
- Joseph bt Toby 6/5
- Joseph bt Oliver 6/2
- Toby bt Oliver 6/0
- James bt Ambrose 6/1
- James bt Joseph 6/0
- Ambroase bt Joseph 6/3
- Max bt James 6/3
- Max bt Bertie 6/0
- James bt Bertoie 6/1
Final
- Max bt James 6/1 6/2
Under 18 Sunday 1 November (Wellington)
Group A
- Charlie bt Cesca 6/2
- Benji bt Charlie 6/4
- Benji bt Cesca 6/3
Group B
- Willem bt Oliver 6/3
- Willem bt Benji 6/1
- Benji bt Oliver 6/3
Group C
- Max bt Magnus 6/1
- William bt Willem 6/0
- Max bt Willem 6/3
- William bt Magnus 6/1
- Magnus bt Willem 6/1
- William bt Max 6/2
Final
- William bt Max 6/4 6/2
RULES
1. Each match to be played for a fixed period of time against the clock or to fixed amount of games as indicated on draw.
All matches except finals will be played with 1 deuce advantage then 40 all one point.
2. Predominantly white clothing to be worn during matches.
3. Winner of each group will be decided on:-
a) Winner most matches
b) Winner most games
c) Player with least games against
d) Winner of game between tied pairs
ORDER OF PLAY
Group of 3 where 1 goes through
A v B C v r-up match 1 C v winner match 1
Group of 3 where 2 go through
A v B C v winner match 1 C v r-up match 1
Group of 4
A v B B v C C v D D v A A v C B v D
