Dumfries Sports Club

Dumfries Men’s tennis team played against Prestwick Tennis Team on 1st June in the first round of the national round of the Scottish Cup.

Dumfries lost 5 – 1, however gave a very good account of themselves and the match was much closer than the score suggested. The team comprised Lister McKiddie and Colin Dunbar, Daniel McKiddie and Ritchie Cunningham and Graeme Cross and Duncan Muir.

The Prestwick first couple proved to be too strong but Graeme and Duncan pushed them hard. Lister and Colin went down in a close 7-6, 7-6 battle. Ritchie and Daniel had two close encounters and won the one tie in a tight three set battle.

Notwithstanding this defeat, there are good prospects in the future for the Dumfries Men’s team, with the younger players combining well with the more experienced players, albeit with Ritchie now being aged 30, he may no longer be classified as youthful!

This weekend (8th & 9th June) sees Dumfries Tennis Club hosting the D&G Confined Senior Championships.

This event is open to players who were born in, currently living in, or are part of a Club within Dumfries and Galloway. A strong field is expected with the gent’s singles taking place on Saturday and the Gents Doubles on Sunday.

Play is due to start at 10am on both days.

The draw for the knockout stages of this year’s Scottish Cup sees Dumfries men’s team play host to fellow South of Scotland team Prestwick on Saturday 1st June with a 1pm start.

The Ayrshire team beat Stewarton and Ayr LTC to reach the national knock-out stage whilst Dumfries received a bye into the knock-out stage as no other D&G club entered the event.

In the ladies event neighbours Dalbeattie face a long drive to Aberdeen to face Cults.

The first round ties will be played a week on Saturday (1st June) with the finals at Craiglockhart on Sunday 23rd June.

LTA Scottish Cup Draw

The first American doubles took place on Sunday. The intention is that this will run for 6 months with a winner at the end and an updated table each month providing it is played.

The first set of results can be found on the American Doubles page here.

Dumfries Tennis Club will be running an American (mixed) doubles event on Sunday 28th April from 12pm to 2pm or there abouts. This will be part of a series of American tournaments which are designed to be a bit of fun with a small competitive edge. There will be 5 or 6 events over the summer, depending on weather, with an overall winner after the last event. You can choose to play 1 event, 2 events or as many as you want to. The more you play and the more you win then the better chance you have of winning the trophy.

The basic American Tournament rules are;

• Each player on the day will be placed into 1 of 2 groups i.e. Group G and Group L,
• 1 player from Group G will play with a player from Group L, players can only play with players from the opposite group,
• A set will consist of 8 or 6 or 4 games, depending on numbers,
• Both players gets a point for each game they win and the games get adjusted over the months to match.
• Partners change after each set.

Hopefully the weather will be ok on the day and look forward to seeing you there.