by norfolktennis | Jan 17, 2020 | News
We are delighted to announce the following County Award winners, who will also go forward to Regional assessment. The winners will be presented with their awards at the AGM on 24th February at Easton College. Our congratulations to all the winners and also thanks to everyone who took the time to make nominations.
Lifetime Achievement
Diane Bush
Volunteer of the Year and Recipient of the Jolyon Harris Award
Ali Ward (Gt Massingham)
Club of the Year
Acle TC
Coach of the Year
Stephen Breese
Official of the Year
Derek Perry
Tournament of the Year
Hunstanton LTT
by norfolktennis | Jan 6, 2020 | Junior Tennis, News
The new year started for some of our county juniors with a friendly match against Suffolk, hosted at Easton & Otley College Tennis Centre.
On Saturday 4th, 8 boys and 8 girls from both counties played a series of matches against each other. The format enabled each player to take part in 2 singles and 2 doubles matches.
The action was non stop from 10.30-4.30pm with Suffolk taking the bragging rights in both the boys and girls matches with 15-9 wins in both.
Norfolk U/12 Girls Team
On Sunday, it was the turn of the U/18s. This time, Suffolk won the girls match, again 15-9, with Norfolk boys claiming victory with a 13-9 win.
Norfolk U/18 Girls Team
All in all it proved to be a great event with plenty of court time for all concerned and good preparation ahead of U/18 county cup in february.
by norfolktennis | Dec 4, 2019 | Competitive Tennis, News
This year we faced five strong counties, namely Yorkshire, Lancashire, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire who had just been been promoted. The results are as follows:
Saturday 28th April Hertfordshire bt Norfolk 3 -2
Sunday 9th June Bucks bt Norfolk 3-2
Saturday 18th May Norfolk bt Surrey 3-2
Saturday 15th June Norfolk bt Lancashire 3-2
Sunday 21st July Yorkshire bt Norfolk 3-2
These results just show how close the competition was with a couple of these matches losing in the third set tie break! Below demonstrates even more how close it was between Yorkshire, Lancashire and us. We had to wait until the very end of the season to see our fate, but I’m confident we will bounce back next year!
Thank you so much to my committed squad of ladies who all played brilliantly throughout: Judy Horn, Lesley Cooper, Susie Hill, Ann Nicholls, Sara Worley and to Tish Peal and Mary Ogden for their much appreciated guest appearances!
Sally Bridgstock
by norfolktennis | Dec 2, 2019 | Competitive Tennis, News
The Norfolk Ladies O60’s headed up to the David Lloyd Dudley this weekend to play the intercounty final against Essex, and came home as champions.
It was a good match with the result being decided on the last match.
Tish Peal and Caroline Blincoe played the singles matches against Essex with Tish narrowly losing on a third set championship tiebreak and Caroline claiming a good win. Sue Rich and Jane Ray then played the doubles round and won comfortably . Hence Norfolk were 2-1 ahead after round 1.
Next the Norfolk singles players teamed up to play doubles against the Essex doubles pair with Sue and Jane played doubles against the Essex singles players.
Jane and Sue just lost, again in a third set championship tiebreak but luckily Tish and Caroline clinched their game in 2 sets.
Hence Norfolk won 3-2.
Left to right: Sue Rich, Jane Ray, Tish Peal, Caroline Blincoe
by norfolktennis | Nov 26, 2019 | Competitive Tennis, News
On weekend Nov 22-24th, Norfolk Mens team were competing at Liverpool in Div 2a of Winter County Cup.
The team was full of youth supported by some experience and Mr Norfolk, Captain Nicky Crawley. The full squad included: Alex Mcnaughton, Fred Withers, Alex Watkinson, Mike Digby, Dan Wynne, Matt Samson, Nicky Crawley, James Aukland, Kris Jenkins.
On Day 1 the team faced Lancashire, but with each singles player losing their opening service game it would prove to be an uphill task. Straight set defeats in all the singles and only a consolation doubles win for Crawley/Jenkins. A 1-7 defeat was not part of the plan.
Saturday welcomed the introduction of James Aukland, an outstanding performer for the county with a wealth of experience. Facing a strong Cheshire team, this change alone would not be enough. A 2-7 defeat meant that the final day would be a straight shoot out with Derbyshire to avoid relegation.
After the singles the match was tied 3-3, so two rubbers were needed to secure safety. The match score was soon 4-4, both teams each winning a doubles rubber. It would all go down to the final rubber. Norfolk were represented by the Mcnaughton/Samson partnership, who despite being relatively new to senior tennis, had played together throughout juniors. After 2 sets it was still all square, so a final set tiebreak would decide relegation. Unfortunately despite a determined fight back, Norfolk would lose 8-10 and face relegation to Div 3 of Winter County Cup.
Captain Crawley said: “We had our chances and need to protect our own service games better. The younger players are still developing and we need to keep pushing them to ensure they play their best tennis. Defeat is never easy to take but we will learn from this and play better in the future”.
