18U Boys County Cup Report

Day 1 vs Northumberland

Northants boys had a decisive victory over Northumberland 6-3 with singles wins at our top 3 order Kacper, Joshua and Marcel. Ilian at number 6 giving us a 4-2 lead followed by 2 doubles wins from Kacper and Joshua at 1st pair and James and Bodie at third pair.

Day 2 vs Herefordshire & Worcestershire

Hereford and Worcester turned out to be a very tight match with Northants losing 4 - 5. The singles was level at 3 all with wins from Kacper, Joshua and Ilian, although James was unlucky and lost in a hard fought 3 set match. Northants could only manage the one doubles win through Kacper and Joshua with James and Bodie missing out on a close tie break.

Day 3 vs Wiltshire

Wiltshire the Champions elect, we felt Northants could win the tie. Starting strongly with a comfortable win for Ilian 6-1 6-2 and Marcel 6-3 6-1 and Joshua 6-1 6-4 but loses for James and Bodie in the singles and doubles for Ilian and Bodie brought the match all down to Kacper's singles. After some amazing tennis, which lasted 4 hrs and 20 mins, Northants lost 7-6 4-6 6-7.

A massive thank you to all the players and assistant coach Wayne Tideswell Northants maintained there division 5 status.

Good luck in the future to Ilian and James as they move out of juniors and a special mention to Daniel who was Northants number 7 who didn't get to play but never stopped supporting the team the whole weekend and learnt a lot about the level for next year .

Mark Taylor, Captain