Last weekend was the turn of the Norfolk 14/u boys and girls team to compete in the Hilton 12 Counties Championship in Division 2b against Bedfordshire, Nottinghamshire and Hereford and Worcester, in best of three short sets at the Corby Indoor Centre.
The team was captained by Chris Evans, of EA Tennis, and the boys comprised of Johnnie Carmichael-Plester, Jack Long Martinez, Tom Hunter and Michael Tudor. The boys were up against some strong competition, especially as Johnnie and Jack were a year younger than most in the event but the team competed hard to narrowly defeat two of the three teams. Unfortunately the boys faded towards the end and a heavy defeat to Nottinghamshire resulted in the boys finishing third despite beating the other teams.
In contrast the Norfolk girls make light work of most of their opposition with a team that comprised of Megan Wright, Maria Andrews, Klara Moolman, and Gina Palffy.
Megan, playing at number 1, won two out of three matches only going down to Freya Christie (ranked 36 nationally) and Gina, playing at four equally won two out of three. The middle order team members, Maria and Klara, proved the difference dominating their opponents winning three out of three convincingly.
The day ended up with the boys finishing third behind Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire with Hereford and Worcester finishing last and the girls came first ahead of Nottinghamshire, Hereford and Worcester and Bedfordshire.
Chris felt there was much to gain from the day “The team did their county proud, they gave everything against some decent opposition and will have gained some valuable experience which will hold them in good stead. Overall we finished second which is a great achievement and if the boys had of kept their form going into the last match we might have had first!”
