\n The six-week season, providing free team tennis opportunities for all youngsters in the Borders from age 10 onwards, runs across three divisions catering for beginners, intermediates and more experienced players.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fifteen teams from seven clubs entered this year, resulting in 20 matches being completed and the top two sides in each division qualifying for finals day.\n<\/p>\n
\n In Division One, a repeat of last year\u2019s final between Earlston 1sts and Innerleithen 1sts once again lived up to expectations.\n<\/p>\n
\n With the teams locked at 1-1, a match-shoot out ensued to decide who would win the Keith Polson Trophy. This time, it was Innerleithen\u2019s turn to take the spoils, nicking the shoot-out 10-8 in front of a packed crowd of spectators.\n<\/p>\n
\n Innerleithen\u2019s third team also contested the Division Two final but this time the 10-8 match shoot-out was reversed, instead favouring St Boswells 1sts who capped an unbeaten campaign with victory and promotion back to the top flight.\n<\/p>\n
\n Meanwhile, in Division Three, Melrose<\/a> 3rds overcame home side Peebles with both young teams putting on a great display in rainy conditions.\n<\/p>\n \n Thanks went to Peebles for hosting this year\u2019s event with excellent hospitality and giving the kids a real treat in being able to play on the well-kept artificial clay courts.\n<\/p>\n \n Thanks were also extended to all the coaches and parents who invested time and energy into making the leagues a successful and popular competition in the local junior tennis calendar.\n<\/p>\n \n Finally, mentions were given to three players at the trophy presentation who played their final autumn leagues, having played every year since its inception in 2019.\n<\/p>\n \n Jamie Rogers (Innerleithen), Jonny Turner (Earlston) and Harris McDougal (Earlston) have represented their clubs wonderfully over that time, and organisers wished them all the best as they transition into the senior game.\n<\/p>\n \n Junior league tennis will resume in 2027 with the Spring Leagues and, with the long-awaited indoor tennis courts in Galashiels<\/a> to look forward to, residents are urged to get involved. For more information, contact tennisborders@gmail.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The six-week season, providing free team tennis opportunities for all youngsters in the Borders from age 10 onwards,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786626","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\/786626","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=786626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}