On Monday the 18th of February the top 6 Junior boys and girls enjoyed a wonderful afternoon’s tennis against Gill Primary. The boys matches were tightly contested with Union losing 3 matches to 4. Special mention must be made of Peter-Daniel Clegg who won both his singles and doubles matches.
The girls did well to win by 9 matches to 0.
On Saturday our Top 12 Tennis girls travelled to Queenstown to participate in our annual tennis match against GHS. This time round Girls’ High had a very strong team and our girls had to give of their best in most of their matches. Although we beat them by 11 sets to 7, most of the.games were decided by tie-breakers. Well done to Jeanne-Marie Brummer, Lauren Rose-Innes, Tayla Kingwill, Anna Pringle, Leah Marais and Musa Kedamile for winning both their singles and doubles matches.
Congratulations to Matthew Paxton who has been selected for the Eastern Province U/13 tennis team. He will be participating in the SA primary school tennis tournament held in Bloemfontein 16-19 March.
The following learners have made the Eastern Province Country Districts Tennis Team in their various age groups:
U/12 Girls
Tara Ferreira
Misha Newton
Chloe Erasmus
U12 Boys
Matthew Paxton
U/14 Girls
Caytah-Leigh Koeberg
Anna Pringle (Reserve)
U/14 Boys
Brent Hesselink
U/19 Girls
Micela Loock
Sara Kingwill
Christine Harris (Reserve)
U/19 Boys
Noá Cilliers
The Top 8 Senior boys’ and girls’ tennis teams competed against our traditional Grahamstown rivals, St Andrews, DSG, Graeme College, Victoria Girls and Kingswood on Sunday 20 January 2019.
The girls beat both VG and Kingswood by 12 matches to 0, with only DSG providing any opposition. UHS won this clash by 7 matches to 5, winning the overall title by 2 matches. Special mention must be made of Micela Loock (number1) and Christine Harri…s (number 3) who were unbeaten on the day in both their singles and doubles matches. Congratulations to Micela Loock who is girls’ captain and Jenna McNaughton vice-captain.
The UHS boys who were competing for the Settlers cup, played tenacious tennis against strong opposition all day. While some individual matches were very closely contested, their fighting spirit saw them beating Graeme College by 10 matches to 2 and Kingswood, 9-3. Going into the final round, St Andrews were one match ahead of us. Losing 3 of the singles matches in tie-breakers, the boys fought hard but were beaten on the day by 8 matches to 4.St Andrews beat us into second place by 5 matches overall. While every member of the team contributed positively, excellent results were achieved by Noä Cilliers, Ebben Johnston and Bowen Langmead.
We congratulate the following tennis players who have been selected to represent Graaff-Reinet and District at the Eastern Province Country District trials:
U/12 girls
Chloe Erasmus
Misha Newton
Tara Ferreira
U/12 Boys
Matthew Paxton
U/14 girls
Tayla Kingwill
Caytah-Leigh Koeberg
Anna Pringle
U14 Boys
Brent Hesselink
U/16 boys
Kyle-Luke duPreez
Open girls
Micela Loock
Christine Harris
Sarah Kingwill
Open Boys
Noä Cilliers
Brett Amsterdam
Matthew Hesselink
Peter Watermeyer
Country District trials: U14 to Open trials will take place in Graaff-Reinet on Monday 21 January 2019.
U10 and U12 trials will be held in Cradock on Tuesday 22 January 2019.
Our top four girls and boys represented Union in the annual Jocelyn Marais Invitational Tennis Tournament organised by MatchPoint Tennis on Friday and Saturday.
Although we played against very strong teams, our players rose to the challenge and played very good tennis. It was a great experience and the players certainly benefitted from exposure to tennis of such a high standard.
Well done to all the players on an excellent tournament. Our girls ended in fifth place and the boys seventh.
On Saturday morning the top 8 Junior girls travelled to Port Elizabeth to play tennis against Collegiate.
Despite losing to Collegiate there was some excellent tennis played with many games going to deuce/add and some matches being decided by a tie breaker.
The boys lost 4-5 to a very motivated Gill side. Our players sold themselves short and failed to capitalize on important points. Special mention must be made of Finn and Chuma, playing at couple number 3, who managed to beat Gill’s first couple.
The Girls won 5 matches to 4. Gemma and Sade played well at couple number 3, winning the deciding match against a strong 2nd couple from Gill.
Well done to all.