Darling Downs Secondary School Teams Tennis Challenge
On Monday, 19 August, four senior years students, Ben Forbes, Patrick Kelly, Hugh Faggotter and Jonty MacDougall participated in the Darling Downs Secondary School Teams Tennis Challenge. This competition is conducted by Tennis Queensland and is a state wide tournament. To start the day, the boys had to play pool matches against Downlands College and Centenary Heights SHS. In the pool matches, the boys play one match of Fast4 singles each and one match of Fast4 doubles. The boys convincingly won these rubbers dropping only a handful of games in total. This allowed us to be in the position to play off for 1st – 3rd position against two Grammar teams. This was a tough contest and called on the boys to play incredible tennis and demonstrate incredible team work and spirit. In our first rubber in the finals pool we lost to Grammar B by 2 games. Heartbroken by this close defeat, the boys rose to the challenge and beat Grammar A in the next rubber by 1 game. This meant, however that there was a TIE for first position. Unfortunately on a count-back the boys came third, with only a handful of games separating first and third. As coach I could not have been any prouder of the commitment, passion, enthusiasm, sportsmanship and team spirit demonstrated by the boys. A huge shout out to Ben Forbes and Patrick Kelly who won all of their singles matches. It was tough to be on the losing side of a countback but there is always NEXT year and we are planning our 2020 campaign already!
Simone Forbes