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SUMMERHAYES Tennis Club again defended their title recently as Barbados National Bank Inter-Club champions. Playing in the 2012 finals held at the National Tennis Centre on May 5, they edged Barbados Yacht Club 40 games to 36 to hold aloft the Inter-Club Challenge Trophy for the third successive year.

The 2012 tournament, which fielded seven teams after Paragon’s withdrawal, saw a new format with the first round being a round robin between all the teams and the second round a seeded knock out draw.

Following the round robin phase, Barbados Yacht Club topped the table with 246 points followed by Summerhayes (232), Ocean View (212), Windward (177), UWI (174), National Tennis Centre (162) and Fiat Holders Hill (103).

Barbados Yacht Club then received a bye into the second round with Summerhayes winning comfortably over National Tennis Centre 45-23 in the 1st round knock out stage. Also securing spots in the semifinal were UWI who beat Fiat Holders Hill 45-22 and Windward who beat Ocean View in a close 40-34 encounter. In the ensuing semis, Barbados Yacht Club was victorious over UWI 40-23 and Summerhayes brushed aside Windward 45-13.

In Saturday’s final, despite putting up a good fight, Barbados Yacht Club were forced to pass up their chance at the trophy after winning only one of the 5 matches. In the first Men’s Doubles match up, Bernard Frost and Wayne Forde of Summerhayes won over Kevin Lewis and Jimmy Tasker 9-7 and then Martin Frost and Michael Date achieved a similar result in the second Men’s Doubles for Summerhayes when they beat Brian Cadogan and Jason Small 9-7.

In the Women’s Doubles, Kim Brandford and Kayla Frost gave Summerhayes a third win coming back from behind to beat Donna Gibbs and Marie-Ann Gonsalves 9-6. Barbados Yacht Club was then able to pull one back with a 9-4 win from Jackie Marshall and Kelly Corbin against Marie-Jeanne Symmonds and Caryl Pearson.

The final and most keenly contested match of the evening was the Mixed Doubles which was the deciding factor for the BNB title. Summerhayes made few mistakes and won 9-7 with Prashant Nebhani and Kim Brandford overcoming a strong challenge from Peter Symmonds and Donna Gibbs.

UPDATE – FRIDAY APRIL 27, 2012 – please note below FINAL RESULTS

The prize presentation will be held at the National Tennis Centre after the conclusion of the Inter Club Finals on Saturday May 5, 2012.

Ladies >45s Singles

Mens >35s Singles

Mens >35s Doubles

Mens >55s Singles

See Photos of the action at Photo Gallery – click link at top of page!

UPDATE – Sign-in Procedures etc

Please note the following procedures for the upcoming 2012 Barbados Senior Open ITF Championships :

Men’s 35s & 55s and Ladies 45s Sign-in deadline is Sunday April 22, 2012 between 4.00 pm and 6.00 pm at the National Tennis Centre.

Sign-in will close promptly at 6.00 pm.

At Sign-in all players are required to bring:
Entry fee of Bds $100 (or US $50) in cash or a Bds cheque made payable to Barbados Tennis Association and
Valid passport or Barbados ID card.

Doubles Sign-in closes on Monday April 23 at 12.00 pm. Both partners must present themselves together at the Referee’s desk to sign-in.

Singles matches in all age groups will start on Monday April 23 at 9 am. Play will continue until noon and then resume at 3.30 pm until dark.

Doubles matches will start on Tuesday April 24 at 8.30 am.

The Tournament Referee will post the Order of Play on Sunday night at the National Tennis Centre but all Players should report for play no later than 8.30 am on the first day.

The Order of Play for each day will also be posted daily on the Association’s website.

The Tournament is being played under ITF Senior Regulations – see

http://www.itftennis.com/media/107842/107842.pdf

The ITF Senior Circuit Code of Conduct will apply to the Tournament and all Players are expected to observe the Code and not be cited for any Code Violations, which include conduct such as verbal abuse, ball abuse, racquet abuse, audible obscenities, visible obscenities, unsportsmanlike conduct, etc, etc. See Section 5 (Page 138) of the 2012 Senior Circuit Regulations – link above.

UPDATE Sunday - Barbados go down 0-5 against Mexico – very tough tie at altitude and on the clay. We will however play in Group II again in 2013 – draw to be made in September.

UPDATE Friday – Darian and Haydn both lose their singles matches in 3 straight sets – they next play the doubles against Gonzalez & Ramirez today at 1pm (2pm Barbados time).

Barbados (Davis Cup ranking 60) take on Mexico (ranked 46) in the semi finals of Americas Zone Group II to be played on the clay courts of the Rafael El Pelon Osuna stadium in Mexico City over the upcoming Easter weekend.

Having beaten Paraguay in the first round held in Barbados in February – Darian King – ATP ranking 745, Haydn Lewis – 766, Seanon Williams and Anthony Marshall again represent the island against the more experienced and higher ranked Mexicans – Daniel Gaza – 326, Miguel Gallardo-Valles – 442, Cesar Ramirez – 541 and Santiago Gonzalez in 4 singles matches and 1 doubles match played over the best of five sets.

Follow the results at the Davis Cup website
http://www.daviscup.com/en/results/tie/details.aspx?tieId=100018125

and at the Mexico Tennis Federation Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/fmt.org.mx