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Under 16 and Under 18 Girls Rackets Singles 2011

Under 16 and Under 18 Girls Rackets Singles

First girls Rackets championship staged at Queen's Club

Millie Pughe of Wellington College and Lucinda Pigott (Clifton) have won the first British Girls Rackets championships ever staged, during the National Schools Rackets Championships at Queen's Club. The event follows the inaugural British Women's Open Rackets Championship last month and attracted around a dozen sporting all-rounders from some of the 14 schools where Rackets is played. Pughe won the girls€ Under 16 title beating Jess Billings from a distinguished Haileybury sporting dynasty in a hard-fought final. Pigott took the Under 18 crown, surviving a tough all-Clifton battle against Emma Powell 15-12 15-13. Until recently Rackets, one of the world's fastest ball-games was considered too gruelling and explosive for female participation but with most public schools now co-educational and growing numbers of talented sportswomen attracted to this addictive sport, more women's and girls' events are planned. The new British Open women's Rackets champion Claire Vigrass is hotly tipped to take her first women's world Real Tennis title in Melbourne (Australia) next month.

Results: Queen's Club.

British Schools Rackets Championships:

Under 16 Girls final:

Millie Pughe (Wellington) beat Jess Billings (Haileybury) 15/12 15/10

U 18 Girls Singles final:

Lucinda Pigott (Clifton) beat Emma Powell (Clifton) 15/12 15/13

DRAW

U16 Girls	in action
U18 Girls in action
photos by Freddie Adam