Market Bosworth Tennis Club News

Veronica Ball

The Ladies Veronica Ball Trophy proved once again to be very successful. Congratulations go to Kate de Fraja and Pam Oliver as winners.  Thanks to Alwyn for making this as enjoyable as ever!!

Veronica Ball was a member of the club & the ladies team  from the early 70’s until 1998 when she was diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease at the age of 56. One of the first  symptoms was that  she was no longer able to hold her racket. She died in 2001. Once our new club house was established, close friend Alwyn Whitney decided to hold an annual ladies doubles tournament in her memory & raise funds for Motor Neurone research at the same time. The tournament has run for five years & we have raised close to £500 for the local charity branch. The tournament is followed by a bring & share supper in the club house & we raise a toast to an inspirational lady who always looked for the positives in life – right to the end.

Christmas Meal 2008

Our Christmas meal will take place on Saturday 6 December at Bosworth Water Trust from 7.00 pm.  The cost of the evening will be £25.00 per head which needs to be paid in full by the 5 November 2008.   Pam will be putting up a list in the clubhouse together with copies of the menu.  Hope that you can all make it for what should be a great evening!

www.bosworthwatertrust.co.uk

Men

1 Group 3B - P9 W2 L7

2 Group 5B - P9 W6 L3

3 Group 6A - P9 W3 L6

Ladies

1 Group 3A - P9 W3 L6

2 Group 5B - P9 W5 L4

3 Group 6B - P7 W2 L5

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An awesome start to the U15 Winter League

The campaign began in the early hours of Sunday morning (well, it was 10am but it felt a lot earlier). The team of Tom, Matt, Natalie and Elena turned up at Market Harborough to see a couple of their players powering the ball at each other and looking decidedly good! Unperturbed, our intrepid band of players began the match somewhat tentatively to start with. Tom and Matt soon forged a winning partnership and quickly romped to a 6-2, 6-1 victory – 1-0 Market Bosworth. On the other court and playing well beyond their years, Natalie and Elena stuck woman fully to their task and ground out a wonderful 6-4, 6-4 win against girls who regularly compete in U14 and U16 matches – 2-0 Market Bosworth. Especially worthy of note was Elena’s performance. Quite simply, she was inspired. Throughout the match she rarely missed a forehand, backhands were as straight as an arrow and the squeal of delight when she hit an ace against their best player brought a smile to the face of even the home supporters! Well done Elena.

One more win for the match, could it be done. Well simply, yes. Tom and Natalie forged an immediate understanding and this excellent partnership were in complete control against their No1 pairing powering their way to a 6-2, 6-0 victory – 3-0 Market Bosworth. Could we get maximum points? All the parents moved to the lower courts (it was a tiered arrangement!) to see out the final match. After having won the first set, Matt and Elena were 5-3 down when we joined them. Despite the fact that Matt doesn’t like his Mum watching, our presence was enough to see the deficit quickly eradicated and the second set wrapped up at 7-5, Elena once again serving like a demon and raking forehands cross court like there was no tomorrow (Matt was pretty damned good too actually) – 4-0 Market Bosworth and 3 bonus points for the win. 7-0 Market Bosworth. Whoo-hoo!!!!!

Congratulations to the players, an excellent morning and it made the hour’s drive all the more worthwhile. We even put up with Natalie and Elena’s jokes on the way back – the calibre was poor but there was a small outbreak of laughter at ‘What do you call a Chinese woman with a mixer on her head?   Blenda!

Wimbledon Ticket Information

In 2009, each affiliated club's allocation of Wimbledon tickets will be
based on the number of club members who have signed up to British Tennis
Membership as of 30 November 2008.
If you are a member of Market Bosworth Tennis Club and know of fellow club members
who have not yet signed up, why not encourage them to do so? Remember,
British Tennis Membership is free to members of affiliated clubs until at
least 2012.
Your friends, family and fellow club members can join online immediately by
visiting

 http://www.lta.org.uk/britishtennismembership

County Tennis Squad Success

We are pleased to announce that Natalie Milner has been selected to join the County Tennis squad and we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate her. Well done Natalie!!  

Players from Left to right.

Abigail Amos, Natalie, Yasmina El Sayed and Katie Boulter

SJT Winners 2008

Easter Success For Market Bosworth Junior Tennis Players

Pictured: Back row: Nick Rose Head Coach at Market Bosworth Tennis Club.

Left to right front row: Elena De Fraja, Natalie Milner, Dhillon Purnell- Mullick, Tom Hall, Greg Hancock.

Market Bosworth Tennis Club’s under 12s outclassed the opposition at Charnwood Tennis Club’s Grade 4 Junior Tournament over the Easter break.

At Charnwood Natalie Milner won the Girls U12s and Dhillon Purnell-Mullick the Boys U12s. Tom Hall won the Boys U10s and was a semi finalist in the Boys U12s along with Thomas De Fraja.  Elena De Fraja was Runner up in the Girls U12s Consolation Competition.

Dhillon Purnell- Mullick  then went on to the final of the Boys u12s at Carisbrooke Grade 4 Tournament later in the holidays where he was eventually runner up and Greg Hancock won the Consolation Competition for the U12 Boys.

Natalie Milner is now number 5 in the county rankings for U12 girls and Elena De Fraja is 20^th. Dhillon Purnell-Mullick  is now 10^th in the county rankings for Boys u12 with Tom Hall 18^th and Thomas De Fraja 22^nd.