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Bahamas Subway 2011 Junior Tennis Tournament

Bahamas Tennis — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:14:11 +0000

FOCOL 2010 Junior Tennis Tournament

Bahamas Tennis — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:23:04 +0000

The annual FOCOL tournament was held OCTOBER 22 – OCTOBER 25, 2010 results are as follows:

Age Category	Finals	Score
Girls Under 12	Lily Evert defeated Iesha Shepherd	Bye
Girls Under 14	Iesha Shepherd defeated Dominique Mortier	6-2, 6-2
Girls Under 16	Erin Strachan defeatedDanielle Thompson	6-4, 6-1
Boys Under 10	Cole Majra defeatedDenali nottage	6-2,6-1
Boys Under 12	Oneil Mortimer defeatedDanny Wallace	3-6, 6-0, 6-0
Boys Under 14	Micheal Wallace defeatedOneal Mortimer	6-1, 6-0
Boys Under 16	Kevin Major defeated Rasheed Carey	6-1, 6-3
Boys Under 18	Kevin Major defeated Treajh Ferguson	Bye
Girls 18	Gabriella Bowe defeated Danielle Thompson	Bye

The Focol tournament took placed this past weekend at the Lucayan Bath & Raquet Club.

The Grand Bahama Tennis Association hosted about 35 junior tennis players from Nassau, Eleuthera and Grand Bahama to several days of healthy tennis rivalry. This year’s players displayed a high level of competiveness and good sportsmanship as they vied for the first place trophies in the various age categories.

President of the Grand Bahama Tennis Association, Mrs. Charmine Wallace, dubbed this year’s tournament a huge success and extended sincere appreciation to Focol, the players and their parents for contributing to such a successful tournament.

2010 Nike Junior Tennis International Masters To Be Held in The Bahamas at Columbus Isle San Salvador December 8-15

Bahamas Tennis — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:14:40 +0000

The Nike Junior Tour is comprised of more than 60,000 of the world’s best under-12 and under-14 youth tennis players in the world. Each year, following a series of regional qualifying events and national championships, Nike brings the top regional champions together in a unique location to experience an international tennis tournament.

The Nike Junior Tour International Masters has become the pinnacle experience for young tennis players to compete on a global stage with the very best of their peers from around the world. Nike is especially proud the tour can point to former NJT champions like Rafael Nadal who have gone on to become extremely successful professionals.

This year the tournament will be bigger than ever before with 30 countries expected to vie for top honours. With the dates now December 8 to 15 the Masters will be played later than usual. The reason for this is that it will fall in the week separating the Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl tournaments.

For the fifth time in its 14-year history, the NJT International Masters will be hosted at a Club Med venue and this year it will be staged at Club Med Columbus Isle on the Island of San Salvador in The Bahamas. All the players will be able to experience a piece of history because it was on these very beaches that Christopher Columbus landed on on his journey to discover America in 1492.

For the past two years the tournament has been played on hard courts but this year it will revert to clay.

The 30 countries expected to line up are France, Italy, Croatia, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, Slovakia, Belgium, Israel, United Kingdom, Russia, Serbia, UAE, Belarus, Morocco, China, Brazil, USA, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Bosnia, Sweden, Slovenia, Ukraine and Turkey.

The Nike Junior Tour has now been a breeding ground for young tennis players since 1997 when the concept was introduced by Chris Vermeeren and the first event played at Hilversum in Holland. Since then the NJT International Masters has travelled all over the world and has been hosted in Germany, Spain, South Africa, the Bahamas, France, Italy, the USA and the Dominican Republic.

Players such as current world No 1 Rafael Nadal, Sweden’s Robin Soderling, Juan Martin del Potro from Argentina, Czech Thomas Berdych, Israel’s Shahar Peer, and Czech Lucie Safarova have all cut their tennis teeth at the Nike Junior Tour.

Grand Bahama’s Rodney Carey Moves Closer to Singles Title

Bahamas Tennis — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:14:32 +0000

[BLTA] Two outstanding young Bahamian tennis players look to sweep the Boys singles title at the 2009 Barbados Junior International Tournament in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Tournament #1 seed Rodney Carey advances to the Boys 18 semi-final with a 61,62 victory over #7 seed Oliver Pramming-Benneweis (Denmark). Carey next plays Darian King (Barbados) in the Boys 18 semi-finals on Friday at 9:00am,

#2 seed doubles team of Carey and partner Nevy Jogi-Singh advanced to the Boys 18 Doubles Finals on Friday by defeating the team of Kevin Deligny/Dominic Lovell (St. Lucia) 76(4), 62 in the Semi-finals on Thursday. Carey and partner Singh will play the team of Darian King (Barbados)/Brandon Burke (Jamaica) #1 seeds on Friday to determine the Boys 18 Doubles Championship.

In the Boys 14 & Under Singles Semi-finals 12 year old Justin Roberts (Bahamas) defeated Shakir Elvin (Antigua) 60, 61 to advance to his first COTECC Boys 14 & Under Final. Roberts next plays Remario Francis (USA) on Friday at 9:00am to determine the 2009 Barbados Junior International Tournament Boys 14 & Under Singles Championship.

Roberts and partner Matthew Hutchinson played the Boys 14 & Under Doubles Finals on Thursday losing the the #1 seeded team of Jannick James (Granada)/Remario Francis 36, 57. Both set were keenly contested with Roberts and partner leveling the score at 5 all in the second set but was unable to hold serve and lost two consecutive game and the match.