St Peter's recently won through the regional first round of the
Glanville Cup Boys Under 19 Tennis Competition. The team consisting of
Phil Hazelwood, Oliver Duffy, Chris Cole, Kris Smith and Jordan Gleadell
Burt beat Wycliffe College from Stroud 4-2. The boys now face Monmouth
School in the next round.
The Under 13 and Under 15 school competitions start this week.
Our National Junior Club League teams that compete at the weekends have
done well. Our Under 12s consisting of Elliott Hopson, Jake Haywood,
Charlie Chapman (St. Marys Primary) and Ollie Palmer (Twyning Primary)
have a County Semi-final tie against East Glos Club from Cheltenham.
Our Under 16s consisting of Chris Cole, Will Gardner, Kris Smith and
Jordan Gleadell Burt have beaten Oxstalls Indoor Tennis Centre 4-2 and
lost 4-2 to Esporta. The match against Esporta could have gone either
way as at 1 stage we were up in 3 out of 4 singles and we ended up just
winning 1. We just have Cirencester left to play in this division.
Individually, we have had some great results lately.
Chris Cole in Year 9 won a Grade 4 Regional Tournament in Malvern in
March beating the Number 1 Under 14 in Gloucestershire in the final.
Chris has also just represented Gloucestershire in the Under 14 County
Cup where he played at Number 3 and won 4 out of 5 matches.
Elliott Hopson in Year 7 has won 2 Grade 5 County Tournaments in the
last 2 months - 1 at Oxstalls Indoor Tennis Centre and 1 at Esporta in
Brockworth.
Chris and Elliott are both currently ranked 4 in Gloucestershire for
their respective ages (Under 14 and Under 12) and both will hope to
build on these rankings this Summer.
There are several boys in our school who have seen their national tennis
ratings go up in the last month these are: Chris Cole (gone up 2
ratings), Jordan Gleadell Burt, Kristofer Smith and Elliott Hopson.
Kristofer Smith in Year 11 has had a dramatic rise as he only started
playing tennis at the end of Year 9. He is already ranked 18 in
Gloucestershire for his age and has beaten the Number 7 ranked boy at
Under 16 level in the last month.
In addition to the players already at St. Peter's - there are younger
members of our academy. These include Charlie Chapman (aged 9) from St.
Mary's RC Primary and Oliver Palmer from Twyning Primary near
Tewkesbury. Charlie Chapman has recently won an Under 10 County
Tournament at Esporta and Ollie recently attended Under 9 Midlands
Performance training at Solihull. Only the top 6 boys at this age in the
Midlands attended this training.
