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Results – European Club Championships, Nottingham
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05.09.2014
The 2014 European Club Championships for Women & Men take place in Nottingham, England from Wed 3rd Sept to Saturday 6th.
Ireland is represented by a women’s and men’s team from the same club – Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club. In the women’s draw there are 8 teams in 2 groups from 7 countries. In the men’s draw there are 4 groups of 3 teams in each from 10 countries.
After a good final day Fitzwilliam men’s finished 9th overall and the women’s team finished 7th.
he final day at the ECC 2014 brought a much awaited win for the Fitzwilliam ladies team. We played a Dutch team, MeerSquash, and although Griffin put up a good fight in the first match of the day she lost 3-1. I went on next and brought the tie level by winning my match 3-0. So it was down to Vicky in the decider. She won in a convincing three games thus securing Fitzwilliam a seventh place finish.
We were down to the play-off positions today and we were drawn against the host club, Nottingham SRC, as they had finished 3rd in their pool.
Griffin was back in the team at no. 2 after sitting out yesterday due to a slight muscle strain.
I started the tie with a 3-0 win against the local club champion. Vicky was on next and led for the majority of the first game but unfortunately it ended 11-9 in Nottingham’s favour. The local girl had the momentum then and stayed ahead in the next two games despite some great retrieving by Vicky.
In the deciding match Griffin started very well against a similar style of player. They traded points for most of the first two games. Griffin narrowly lost the first 12-10 and when she won the second 11-9 we knew we were in for a close match. However, Laura Helm of NSRC started to play tighter length to take control of the next two games and win the match 3-1.
Tomorrow we face Dutch side Meersquash in our final match and we hope we end with a win!
