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Round-up for week ending Sunday August 12

 

In the Lincolnshire Doubles League, the ladies' fifth team from Boston Tennis Club completed their matches with a 7-2 win against Spalding Ladies to win Division 3B. The team comprised some of the players who had regularly turned out during the season in the guise of Emma Cook, Jayne Walsh, Sarah Bennison, Claire Smith, Helen Motson and Rachel Bowser.
 
The men's first team of Edward Fowler, Kevin Hawkesworth, Andrew Cook, Simon Bush, Richard Cook and Ray Frankish also played Spalding men’s team at the weekend and also won by a 7-2 margin. This followed a match against Spalding the previous weekend when Boston Tennis Club's men’s second team also played Spalding and won 7-2. Playing for Boston’s second team on this occasion were Kevin Hawkesworth, Tom Brooks, Andrew Cook, Louis Warren, James Puttrell and Chris Beale.

 

Elsewhere, juniors from Boston Tennis Club took part in an international match on Friday afternoon when they pitted their skills against a touring team from Redhill School, Johannesburg. The visitors were undertaking an extensive two-week tennis and cricket tour of England to celebrate the fact that it is 100 years since the school's foundation. Their tour also included visits to Wimbledon, Lord’s, Old Trafford and the Millennium Stadium. The tourist boys are also playing six tennis matches and a number of cricket matches against a variety of local clubs and participating in the Bristol Cricket Festival.

Before the match against boys from Boston Tennis Club, the team had played Highgate Club and Pershore in Worcestershire. With one win and one loss to their record, the boys arrived for an eagerly awaited encounter. In the first round James Puttrell, Louis Warren, Andrei Clark, Stanley Roffe, Robert Linnell, James Fairweather, Connor Trigg and Ben Mills played doubles against the South Africans and gained a 3-1 lead. Three rounds of singles followed involving these players and also Calum McCaig, Tom Emmerson, James Niedermeier, Lewis Fisher, Charles Cottrell, Mikey Housby and Lewis Trevor. Boston Tennis Club maintained the lead throughout gradually increasing it until the final result of 20-8.