Ace duo help to title glory; VOLLEYS.KAY Gebbels and Caroline Rhodes, from Kenilworth Tennis Club, were part of the Warwickshire squad who battled their way to victory in the Midland Counties over 50s Ladies Winter Indoor League Indoor League was a television series broadcast in the United Kingdom by Yorkshire Television during the 1970s. It was hosted by England cricket legend, Fred Trueman who often wore a cardigan whilst smoking a pipe throughout his links. . Going into the last day of competition, Warwickshire had lost only one match, to Notts. Alana Parsons (Solihull Arden) played with Ali Kerr (Four Oaks) and the Kenilworth couple made up the team for the last match, beating Cambridgeshire 5-3. The championship hung on an match between Nottinghamshire and Hereford and Worcester Hereford and Worcester (hĕr`əfərd, w  s`tər), former county, W central England, created under the Local Government Act of 1972 (effective 1974). .
The resulting draw left Warwickshire champions with six wins and Nottinghamshire runners-up with five. Their younger over 40s county team colleagues were unable to repeat their success of 2008 and came runners-up. n JOHN Keighley, a rising star at Streetly Tennis Club, had a cracking Easter when he won three titles at the Sutton Coldfield Sutton Coldfield, city (1991 pop. 102,572), Birmingham metropolitan district, central England. The city is a residential suburb of Birmingham with a metal products industry and a large television transmitting station. Open. John, who has an LTA LTA Land Transport Authority LTA Land Trust Alliance LTA Lawn Tennis Association LTA Lost Time Accident LTA Lighter-Than-Air LTA Lieutenant (Singapore military) LTA Lipoteichoic Acid LTA Lymphotoxin-Alpha rating of 5.2, beat Aaron Banasiek, 6-4, 6-1 in the Under-16 final and Solihull's Richard Westman 6-4, 7-6 in the Under-18 Boys final. To cap a marvellous week he teamed up with his regular Streetly doubles partner, Josh Sherrington, to beat the Edgbaston Priory pair of Charles Marshall and David Taylor David Taylor or Dave Taylor can be one of several persons: Sports people
As a result of his recent performances, the 15-year-old's rating and national ranking will see him close in on the top 25 in the country by the end of the month. IF YOU are a talented youngster wanting to benefit from Streetly's excellent performance programme contact head coach Richard Macey on 07668 135961. The club host an open day on Saturday (1-3pm), when you can play tennis for free and try the facilities and coaching. Full details are available at - www.streetlytennisclub.co.uk n EDGBASTON Priory's U18 girls made it through to the play-offs of the Aegon Team Tennis by beating Thongsbridge. The squad finished top of Group A and are on course for the national finals in July by whitewashing the Yorkshire side. WARWICKSHIRE have two clubs who have been assigned potential beacon status. Victoria Park, in Leamington, and War Memorial Park, in Coventry, hope to be part of the Tennis Foundation's 25 national sites. BRIAN DICK |
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