Road to Wimbledon

Report by Caroline Atkinson


The first Crowthorne TC only “Road to Wimbledon” tournament was held at the club on 25 May this year.  Previous tournaments have involved other clubs as well but we had just enough players from our club to run a tournament from which the winner will proceed to the County round at Cantley in July.   Five players took part and the weather was perfect. It started at 3pm and ended at 6pm which was a lot of tennis for Harvey Dougan and Charlie Chalmers who only joined the club the previous week-end at the Open Day, and had never played a proper match before!

The match format was a timed duration of 20 minutes with sudden death on deuce to decide game result.

As expected Jake Griffiths won all his matches and, having won the tournament overall, will go forward to the County round at Cantley in July.   After 3 matches George and Harvey had each won 2 of their matches, so their head to head in the final round was the decider for the runner-up position which is the reserve for the county round.   George beat Harvey 5-1 so earnt the reserve spot.

Jake Griffiths
George Loverdos