Club Championships, sponsored by Auxesia Ltd starts this Saturday and Finals Day is next Saturday 31st August with prize presentation at 4pm.
Please note that the Ramsey Town Cup starts on the same date, so if you wish to play in that event as well please make sure you put n/a on 31st. Whether you are in an Albany final, have a prize to collect or we have had bad weather, you have to be available at Albany on the Saturday. Also all club competitors are urged to turn up and support those who did reach the final. That is what should happen on every finals day and it’s a tradition Albany wishes to encourage.
At last -news of Sean Drewry’s exploits in UK tournaments this summer show that he had a very successful time. Starting with an LTA Grade 3 event at Loughborough University he played in U16 and his scores were: 1st round versus No 4 seed Felix Beech 6/4 6/3; qtr./f v Thomas Nevill 6/4 6/2;s/f v (No 2 seed) Max Bartholemew 7/6(3) 6/2; In the Final He lost 6/0 6/0 to the No 1 seed Henry Beesley. Then on to Derbyshire in an U16 Grade 4 event Sean beat Michael Johnston 4/0 4/0 and then won the final beating the No 1 seed, Richard Speed 6/3 6/4. After that it was on to the Wigan Tennis Open – a Grade 3 event. InU16 Sean lost in the qtr./f 6/2 6/4 to Mark Rushton-Woods (No 4 seed) 6/2 6/4. He played in the consolation event with a 6/0 6/1 win in the s/f and won the final beating Michael Yeung 6/0 6/2. The Drewry family then travelled to the Leicestershire Victoria Grade 4 event and in the U16s Sean’s scores were 1st round – won 4/0 4/0, q/f won 4/0 4/0 s/f won 4/0 4/0 and in the final he beat Alex Webb 4/0 4/1. Finally he travelled to the Arfon Junior Open and Sean lost in the U18 qtr./f to the no.4 seed, Sion Myers 6/4 6/3 but won the play-back 6/1 6/1. In U16 his scores were: v Owen Roberts 6/1 6/0 but lost to the No 2 seed, Matthew Lee 6/0 6/1 in the quarter final. This very busy young tennis player played 17 matches winning 13 of them and his LTA rating will go up to 6.1 Well done Sean and well done to the family supporting you at all these events. Playing in the UK has to be every young Manx players ambition and Sean is certainly “giving it a go”.
Next event is Presidents Day on 15 September – this is for club members only – seniors and juniors. Juniors who have played regularly in this season’s leagues will play as a senior if enough seniors do not enter. There will be a draw for partners – ie each senior will have a junior partner. Seniors only have a first serve per point. Sign in at 1.45pm play starts at 2pm. The first stage is a round robin format and the knock-out stages and place play-offs start at 4pm, with Prize Presentation at 5.30pm followed by FOOD!! This year there will be an entry fee of ?3 seniors and ?2 juniors. All proceeds will go to the clubs Development Fund, which is trying to raise enough money to re-lay the courts next year. Forms at the club or e-mail your entry to Bryan Sharp - albanytennispr@manx.net.
