Melton Mowbray Tennis Club Juniors make good start to league fixtures
Melton Mowbray Tennis Club Junior teams got their Summer season underway with a good bag of results recorded in their first fixtures.
The club’s Eight & Under mixed team led the way when they travelled to Loughborough University to compete in their Division Four matches and returned with a win and a draw.
Competing against a strong Market Harborough LTC team, they finished with a share of the spoils after a thrilling 8-8 draw.
Jude Makins-Radford led the way with three wins , Ruby Anderson and Josh Bradley weighed in with two apiece and Otis Stock-Shilton notched a win to gain a share of the spoils.
SCORES: J. Makins-Radford 10-5, 10-2, 10-4, 9-11; R. Anderson 10-4, 10-4, 8-10, 2-10; J. Bradley 10-4, 10-4, 8-10, 8-10; O. Stock-Shilton 10-6, 2-10, 2-10, 2-10.
Next up saw the youngsters paired against local rivals Oakham LTC and the Melton youngsters turned in a superb performance to record a 12-4 win.
Jude Makins-Radford kept up the good form with a superb maximum four wins and was well backed up by Josh Bradley who also notched four wins.
Ruby Anderson weighed with three wins and Otis Stock Shilton rounded off a superb win with another rubber.
SCORES: J. Makins-Radford 10-6, 10-4, 10-2, 10-4; J. Bradley 10-5, 10-3, 10-4, 10-6; R. Anderson 10-4, 10-1, 10-4, 7-10; O. Stock-Shilton 10-6, 9-11, 7-10, 7-10.
These superb results were added to by the Nine & Under Mixed Team, 10 & Under Mixed Team and the 11 & Under Boys team who all received walkovers against teams that failed to turn up or could not field teams.
That was very disappointing for the young players who look forward to competing for the club, but everyone is hoping that it was just a bad weekend and all will be playing more tennis going forward.