Badgers Tennis Club is celebrating after three juniors from the Brighton outfit smashed their way to victory in the prestigious Play Your Way to Wimbledon tournament.<\/p>\n
River Isaac, 13, Betsy Toyne, 14, and Scarlett Miller, 12, took the top three spots in the under 14s regional competition held at the West Worthing Tennis Club.<\/p>\n
Betsy also won the under-18s doubles with a fellow Sussex County player Roseanna Fergie.<\/p>\n
The girls, all members of Badgers, in Kemp Town, won their first round matches and then joined 12 other regional finalists.<\/p>\n
River, who attends Dorothy Stringer School, and Betsy, a pupil at Roedean, will now play in the national finals on the world-famous grass courts in early August.<\/p>\n
River said: \u201cI\u2019m so excited to get the chance to play at Wimbledon. My ambition is to become a professional tennis player so this will give me a taste of what it might be like.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coaches and everyone who supports us at Badgers have been incredible. None of us could have done this without them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Betsy, who started playing at Badgers when she was seven, also has her sights on life on tour as a tennis pro and hopes to gain a scholarship to an American Ivy League college to further her tennis dreams.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cBadgers has been part of my life growing up and now I will be playing at Wimbledon. Hopefully not for the last time!\u201d<\/p>\n
Badgers head coach Jon Miller added: \u201cI am so impressed by how much work and dedication our juniors put in and River, Betsy and Scarlett have done incredibly well.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are only a small club but we have a fantastic amount of talent, especially in the junior section.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrassroots tennis is vital and we are always looking out for ways to get the local community involved especially with children who may not get the opportunity to try tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Badgers Tennis Club is celebrating after three juniors from the Brighton outfit smashed their way to victory in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}