[b1-tennis] Re: NVITC 2014
- From: Lara Green <lara.h.greenn@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "b1-tennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <b1-tennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:42:04 +0100
Hi all
Good to have finally joined you on the group.
I know of atleast 5 or 6 b1s who play in London. There are also groups for
juniors which I have not counted. I am going to try some of the diferent clubs
in London and will report back on numbers of B1s.
Lara
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> On Oct 7, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Peter Bosher <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Nikhil and All,
>
> Many thanks for that excellent summary. I knew that Kelly would give you an
> interesting time.
>
> Welcome Lara to the group. Lara is the only new person so far, so I hope the
> message gets out as you say.
>
> Re other B1 players, I only know of a few others in addition to the twelve on
> the Metro list. There are two others at our club, Halton, and another three
> or four scattered around, so probably twenty to thirty altogether.
>
> I'll let you know when others join the group, and perhaps then you can say
> what other issues might have come up this weekend.
>
> Best wishes to all,
>
> Peter
>
>
> At 17:37 06/10/2014, you wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just a quick update on the B1 section of this weekend's tournament.
>>
>> We had a great turn-out: 11 B1 players (one player, Rebecca King, didn't
>> make it).
>>
>> The singles was a knock-out format, with 6 players playing in a
>> qualification round to reduce the numbers to 8, followed by
>> quarter-finals.
>>
>> The final was between Kelly Cronin and I. It was very, very tight, but
>> Kelly produced a fantastic, deep return at 5-5 in the tie-break (the first
>> bounce was about a yard in front of me, before it hit my body!), to take
>> the mini-break and set up championship point on her serve, which she
>> successfully served out. And all that despite feeling unwell during the
>> tournament - someone told me afterwards that she had gone quite red, and
>> looked like she was about to be sick! So, a fantastic performance from
>> her, and a well-deserved gold.
>>
>> The 3rd place play-off was between Lara Green and Dawn Fradgley, who's from
>> the Isle of Wight and is completely new to tennis. Dawn was serving
>> amazingly consistently when I saw her in my semi-final against her (I only
>> won that tie-break 13-11!), and she went on to take 3rd place.
>>
>> The singles happened on the Saturday, while the B1/sighted doubles was on
>> the Sunday, and used a different format: 3 single-tie-break sets, the first
>> two of which were sudden death if they reached 6-6. In addition, it was
>> done in three separate groups - a main draw consisting of 2 3-pair groups,
>> with the winner of each round-robin playing each other in the final; and a
>> plate competition with a round-robin of 4 pairs.
>>
>> Once again, I came up against Kelly in the final: she was partnered with
>> Andy Crockett, and I with Jill King. Kelly and Andy won that one
>> comfortably, in straight sets (on sudden death in the first, and by a
>> single mini-break in the second).
>>
>> So, that's the bare bones of it. There will be plenty of issues to discuss
>> following this tournament, both positive and negative, but it would
>> probably be best to wait until a few of the players from the tournament
>> have joined the list.
>>
>> On that note, while I didn't attempt to give out detailed instructions for
>> joining this list during the weekend (with most people not having
>> note-takers etc. with them...), I did make a note of which club the players
>> were from, and made sure I had a way to get information to them afterwards.
>> I managed to cover all bar 2 in that way, or by exchanging contact details;
>> but Hugh Stirling (of the Tennis Foundation) is happy to pass on
>> information for us, so there will be no problem getting the details to all
>> of them.
>>
>> Incidentally, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on just how many B1s
>> there are playing regularly now - in this country, that is. I think there
>> must be at least 20, but there could be more than that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> N.
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