Belmont Tennis Champions - part 2
Following their success at the Hounslow Tennis Festival on 2nd July, our Year 4 tennis team were at School bright and early the very next day to travel to Crystal Palace for the London Youth Games. We are extremely grateful to the parents who so kindly provided transport at short notice.
This event is for the schools' borough champions from across the whole of London. 30 schools took part. After a highly successful morning, our team qualified for the knock-out rounds in the afternoon and we were delighted to hear that our team were sixth overall. We are very proud of them!
One of the team members, Jemima, wrote this report:
This year, the Year 4’s have been having tennis lessons from the start of last term. Trained coaches from Will to Win have taught us how to play tennis. We have all thoroughly enjoyed having these lessons. Matt and occasionally Charley were our tennis coaches for the last 2 terms.
Matt chose 10 people to compete in a tennis tournament against 70 other schools. Those children were: Hanna, Co-Co Mae, Rose, Celina, me (Jemima), Kane, Kuba, Jack, Zack and Zach. We all went to Dukes Meadows and did some warm-ups which took quite a long time. Then we finally started to do some matches. Mostly we played against Isleworth, they were pretty bad. I can’t remember playing another school but Isleworth, honestly. We played mixed doubles.
We got into the finals and, as the trophy, we got a shield and we are going to get ‘Belmont’ engraved into the shield.
The next day we went to the finals. There were 30 different schools representing their borough. Of course, we represented Hounslow - obviously very well. I played 3 matches and unfortunately only won 1. We weren’t in doubles for this so we only had little time to play, 7 minutes. Cassie (Zach’s mum) drove us as well as Kuba’s dad (Artur). So thank you for getting us there.
Amazingly we came 6th out of those 30 boroughs. We were super proud of ourselves and we didn’t really care that we didn’t win. At least we had fun! Thank you to Matt and Charley for giving us these lessons. Now there is nothing left to say, But if you play tennis something like this might happen to you.