Tennis in Surrey Magazine 2016

county cup
12U Girls
a great job picking themselves up
to come back to win the remaining
two ties. Hopefully next year we
can go one better and pick up the
win. Special mentions go to Sami,
on top form all day to win all his
singles matches in straight sets.
William and Christine for winning
all 3 mixed doubles matches
and especially to Christine who
went the whole day undefeated,
winning all 6 of the matches she
played in. It was a great team effort
so a big well done to all them all!”
12U Boys: County Cup
Champions… and the
first team to defend
the title
Team Manager Matt Trevail
Coach Ben Cullen
Team Raffaello Papajcik,
Mukhtar Andu, Finn Doyle, Daniel
Abernethy, George Shields
With Avon the opponents and
leading 2-1 it went to the doubles
again, with Raffa and Dan
feeling well rested and ready to
go against J’Quon and James. A
great aggressive start and the boys
were 3-0 up and flying, but a few
unforced errors going for big shots
and losing three games in a row
on sudden-death deuce took it out
of them and they lost the first set
on a tie-break. A valiant fightback
in the second to win 4-2 took it to
a 3rd set tiebreak. Despite saving 4
match points, they lost 10-7.
A shootout decider for the 3rd
time in the competition would
decide who would win the title!
Feeling confident and rested after
a good win in the singles, Finn
switched with Dan and Raffa/
Finn renewed an old doubles
partnership from a few years
ago. Some patient focused play
from the back of the court and
fantastically timed interceptions
at the net brought up 4 match
points. One was saved, but the
second saw an incredible reversing
smash from Raffa and the boys had
done it County Cup Champions
2016 and the first team to defend
the title!
Ladies: The 15 Club is an
elite club, especially in
Group 1
Team Manager Mandy Spicer
Team Melanie South, Charlotte
Pearce, Natasha Starling, Laura
Peterzan, Jasmine Asghar, Lily
Miyazaki, Laura Slater, Candy Reid-
Harrop
The Surrey Ladies came into their
final day of county week having
had only dropped 3 rubbers. After
emphatic wins over Warwickshire,
Lancashire, Norfolk and Kent,
Surrey Pair Jazz Asghar and Candy
Reid were yet to drop a set! Team
Manager Mandy Spicer reflected on
the last day:
“After having realised we were
actually already champions even if
we lost every match against Bucks,
who were unusually mid table,
meant a strange climax to the
week. The Bucks Captain, Alison
was very conscious that Jazz and
Candy were on for 15 and assured
me that all their matches would
be played. Which we all very much
appreciated especially with Mel
having been robbed of her 15th
rubber in similar circumstances
two years ago.
Bucks have a very strong 1st pair
of Julia Bone and Jemima King,
they beat Vicky and Steph but
Mel and Charlotte played a great
match to better them. Jazz and
Candy still unbeaten on 14 and
physically exhausted now faced
their toughest challenge of the
week, the most experienced pair at
the event against a pair who’d only
met each other for the first time
on Sunday afternoon. Experience
won the first set, was the bubble
about to burst? They dug deep and
won the second set so all to play for
in the third and the momentum
hopefully with Surrey when
suddenly it was put it to us that
the referee would prefer the girls
to play a deciding tie break as in
theory it was a ‘dead match’ and
all the other courts had finished
for the day! Not easy to adjust
the mental approach especially
when all they’ve achieved all
week could be suddenly gone in a
handful of minutes! Bucks raced
to a 5/2 lead, I was cringing in
the side of the court, goodness
knows how they felt, somehow
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