\n The competition took place at the club\u2019s Bothwell Street home, with Scott Morrison claiming the men\u2019s singles crown after defeating Lewis Mackintosh, while Ruth Macintosh beat Scarlet Donnelly to win the women\u2019s title.\n<\/p>\n
\n There was further success for Scott, who partnered Lewis to win the men\u2019s doubles before teaming up with Jane Russell to triumph in the mixed doubles.\n<\/p>\n
\n Scott Morrison won the men\u2019s singles trophy. (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n
\n Ruth also completed a double alongside Jane in the women\u2019s doubles.\n<\/p>\n
\n The championships were staged across three weekends in September, with different age groups competing throughout.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dunfermline Tennis Club’s Club Championships 2026. (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n
\n Greig Munro, the club\u2019s head coach, explained that the youngest competitors were first in action before the championships progressed through the age groups.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cWe had the eight-and-under and nine-and-under club champs finals.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnd then the weekend after we had 10-and-under and then the weekend after we had everything from 12-and-under all the way up to over-45s.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Archie Macintosh was named 12U’s Boys’ Singles champion. (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n
\n The championships come amid a significant increase in the number of youngsters playing at the club.\n<\/p>\n
\n Greig said: \u201cIn terms of junior participation, we\u2019re up like 50 players from this time last year.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Scarlett Donnelly just missed out in the women’s singles final. (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n
\n He believes the increasing popularity of racket sports more widely is helping to encourage people to get involved.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think with variations like pickleball and padel, (it\u2019s) probably only helping in some way, getting people into racket sports a bit more,\u201d Greig said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ruth Macintosh claimed the women’s singles title. (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n
\n The club has also been working in local schools to introduce more youngsters to tennis.\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cThat brings a lot of players into the club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The competition took place at the club\u2019s Bothwell Street home, with Scott Morrison claiming the men\u2019s singles crown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802339","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\/802339","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=802339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}