Fixture vs Holyport Real Tennis Club

15th February 2014

While much of the rest of Britain and Ireland was suffering the aftermath of storms and floods, the IRTA enjoyed a calm and pleasant weekend of tennis at Holyport RTC in mid-February. Saturday 15th saw a match between the IRTA and the locals (though some of the locals were also Irish...), and then on Sunday 16th we held a doubles tournament, with pairs (mainly) made up of one Holyport player and one IRTA member. Excellent lunch was provided on Saturday by Jill Newby, and on Sunday by Derek O'Sullivan, and spectators in the course of the weekend included several IRTA supporters, not least our Honorary Professional, Stef King.

Many thanks to Jill Newby, who encouraged the IRTA to return to Holyport (venue for our Championships in 2005 and 2006) and coordinated the event, to the pros Andy Chinneck and Chris Bray for marking on each day, and to all at Holyport — players, pros, and committee, for welcoming us so warmly to their club.

Gallery

Photos courtesy Roland Budd and Chris Bray.

Results

The order of play, and (some of) the results, are below:

Saturday 15th February

IRTA			Holyport
Roland Budd & William Wilks	5	6	Andy Parkinson & Jill Newby
	6	4
Roland Budd	2	6	Colm O'Shea
	4	6
Derek O'Sullivan & John Previte	6	5	James McDermott & Nigel Kenyon
	6	3
Fin Ramjane & Zak Ramjane	6	0	Gill Goddard & Jonathan Horrocks
	6	2

Sunday 16th February

Play was organised in two groups:

Group A	Group B
Roland Budd & Nick Parkinson	John Previte & Nigel Kenyon
Paul Cattermull & Malcolm Thorp	Bob Stacey & Jamie Sears
Mark Heffernan & Patrick Jenkins	Claire Stacey & Ben Seifert
	Derek O'Sullivan & Keith Smith

The semi-finals and finals then unfolded as follows:

Budd & Parkinson
Semi-final 1	Budd & Parkinson
Stacey & Sears
	Final	Budd & Parkinson
O'Sullivan & Smith
Semi-final 2	O'Sullivan & Smith
Heffernan & Jenkins