The above tournament for men and ladies will be played at the National Tennis Centre from Saturday May 31 to Sunday June 8, 2008. 

Since circulating our original form, we have received interest in an over 45s event to be run at the same time as the Open Singles. 

When completing your entry form, please therefore let us know if you wish to play in the Open or Over 45s singles by entering your age on the entry form! 

I.e. Players must be 45 or over at May 31, 2008 to be eligible to enter the over 45s event.

Players may enter one event only. 

Please see Fact Sheet and Entry form at Quick downloads (at right)

Entry deadline is Tuesday May 27, 2008 at 6.00pm.

Please also see updated tournament schedule for 2008 at Tournaments (top right) 

Following his success on tour in South America in February, and in the recently concluded Junior Davis Cup Pre-qualifying event held in Honduras where he was undefeated in his singles matches, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has invited Darian King to be a member of the International 16 & Under Junior Touring Team leaving for Europe at the end of May. 

Please see revised Junior rankings at May 1, 2008 at Rankings (top right), together with new Ranking System and Tournament Sanctioning Rules at Quick Downloads for your information.

Our senior ladies team of Richele Lesaldo, Kristen Lopez and Alyssa Fuentes captained by Kevin Yarde played Venezuela and Guatemala in Cochabamba, Bolivia in the Senior Federation Cup Americas Zone Group II - Pool C - see link:

They came up against very strong seeded opposition and lost both their group matches 0-3.

In the play offs for 9th - 12th spots, they then played Panama and lost the rubber 1-2 ending up in 11th position.

Final standings are as follows:

Final Round-Robin Standings:
Pool A: 1. Chile, 2. Cuba, 3. Panama
Pool B: 1. Bolivia, 2. Ecuador, 3. Honduras
Pool C: 1. Venezuela, 2. Guatemala, 3. Barbados
Pool D: 1. Bahamas, 2. Dominican Republic, 3. Trinidad & Tobago, 4.Bermuda

Promotion Play-offs
Bahamas d. Bolivia 3-0
Venezuela d Chile 2-1
Bahamas and Venezuela promoted to Americas Group I in 2009

Final Standings: 1= Bahamas & Venezuela , 3= Bolivia & Chile, 5= Cuba & Ecuador , 7= Guatemala & Dominican Republic, 9= Panama & Honduras, 11 Barbados & Trinidad & Tobago, 13. Bermuda

Photos of Fed Cup action can be found in Photo Gallery (at top of page)

The boy’s team of Darian King, Jackson Kerr and Kenton Gamble narrowly missed progressing to the final of the Junior Davis Cup competition being played in Honduras this past week. 

Having placed first in their Round Robin group of three following consecutive 2-1  victories against Trinidad & Tobago and Bermuda, they then beat Dominican Republic in the quarters 2-1.  

In the semi-finals, they then came up against unseeded Cuba. 

Jackson lost his match against the Cuban #2, 1-6, 2-6, but Darian beat the Cuban #1 player 6-3, 6-2. 

It was then down to the doubles – Jackson and Darian won the first set, but then narrowly lost to the same two players 6-1, 3-6, 4-6, thereby giving the Cubans a 2-1 victory and a place in the final which they then won against home team Honduras 2-1.

In the playoffs for 3rd and 4th places, Barbados then played the Bahamas and again lost 1-2, having been 1-1 prior to losing the doubles match.

Following two losses in their group in the girls’ Federation Cup event, the team of Alyssa Fuentes, Jodie Watson and Kareika Wharton fought well to get into the playoffs for the 9^th-12^th places with a good win against Aruba. 

However, in their next playoff against Honduras, they did not perform so well and lost badly 0-3, followed by another 0-3 loss against Guatemala in the final play off.

The final positions ended with the boys placing 4^th out of 16 in their event and the girls 12^th out of 16 in their event. 

Well done to all players for their performances, with special mention to Darian King who won his five singles matches without losing a set. 

Full results can be found at the COTECC link at right. 

Thanks again go out to all those who attended the Irish Pub night fund raising event held in March and to all our kind donors who helped to send our boys and girls to travel to Honduras to play in these competitions.