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Alex Lewis and James Hough
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Alex Lewis and James Hough with Fives Coach, Mr Tom Root
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Rossall National Fives Championship:
6th - 7th October 2007
Success in the Palm of their Hands
A pair of local boys has proved that two hands are better than one by winning the U-15 National Fives Doubles Championships, staged at Rossall in October.
The doubles pairing of Alex Lewis and James Hough, both 14, beat the country’s top teams and also fancied favourites Lancing, 11-4 in the final, to take the title at the two day event played on our recently refurbished courts, which are now hailed as the best facilities in the country. Their victory follows on from the national U-14 plate competition, which they won in April this year in London and signals a renaissance for the ancient sport, first played at Rossall in the reign of Queen Victoria.
It was a day of double celebration for Alex Lewis of Blackpool, who defied the odds to lift the U-15s singles title to add to his doubles triumph, with an emphatic 11-0 victory in the final, over the UK’s number four seed player, Jamie Betts of Lancing School. Lewis dropped only 10 points in all games en route to the final and his performances are remarkable given that he only took up the sport twelve months ago and now has three national titles to his name.
There were more excellent performances in the Open Competition Doubles, where Rossall’s Michael Docherty and Guy Holder-Williams, 17, progressed to the final with a 12-10 victory over favourites Lancing 1, only losing by the narrowest of margins in the final, going down 11-9 to Malvern.
In the Doubles Plate Competition, the Rossall pairing of Sing Liem and Tim Kenyon proved too strong in the final for fellow Rossallians, Alex Alonso and Richard Docherty. Schoolmates, Charlie Andrews and Jack Morrison also reached the final of the U-14 Doubles plate, giving Fives Coach Tom Root plenty to smile about. He commented: “It’s been a fantastic year for Fives at the school and our fully restored courts have proved a real catalyst for development of a sport, which is fiercely competitive and extremely demanding. It augers well for next year’s World Championships which we hope to stage here on the Fylde coast in Spring 2008. I think we’ll be challenging for a world title, and judging by the crowds attending the National Championships, we’ll also have a full house for the event.”
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