Union’s u/13 and u/11 tennis players enjoyed a wonderful day’s tennis against Woodridge College at their campus near Thornhill just outside Port Elizabeth.
Union played well to emerge victorious in both age groups.
Well done to all the players!
Union High School’s Top 8 boys’ and girls’ tennis players took part in the annual Marco Wasserman tennis tournament, played in Middelburg this past weekend.
Over the course of the two days, the players competed in a Round Robin doubles and mixed doubles format against six other schools. Despite strong competition, the Union learners acquitted themselves very well, playing excellent tennis and coming away from the experience with plenty of lessons learnt. Having lost 10 matric players, the team is entering a building phase, but the newcomers to the team definitely showcased their potential during the tournament.
While the Top 4 boys and girls played tenaciously, they were mostly outplayed in the A section which was won convincingly by Pearson High School.
The second team ended in a very admirable 3rd place in the B section, which was this year won by Aliwal North High School.
As always, the players made the school very proud with their impeccable behaviour and a special word of congratulations is extended to Bowen Langmead, who won an award for his excellent manners on and off the court, Brent Hesselink who received an award for his determination, Sara Kingwill who won the award for the player with the most potential and Chloe Shires who received an award for sportsmanship.
On Monday afternoon, 19 August, Union High School’s Top 6 girls and boys tennis players battled it out on the courts against Cradock High School.
The boys beat Cradock convincingly with 9 matches to 0.
The girls, who played some very competitive sets against a strong Cradock side, also managed to claim victory with 5 games to Cradock’s 4.
Congratulations to Tara Ferreira, a Grade 6 learner at Union High School, on being selected for the u/12 Eastern Cape Inter-District tennis team. Tara will represent the team at a tournament against South Western District and Northern Cape in George on 15 and 16 June.
Monday afternoon, 8 April, saw Union’s top junior players facing Laer Volkskool in, what turned out to be, a very closely-contested bout of tennis. The UHS junior girls proved superior on the day, beating Volkskool with 6 matches to 3.
The junior boys, who could, unfortunately, only field three of their regular first team players, lost their encounter with 3 games to Volkskool’s 6. All the players put forth their best efforts on the day and certainly did the school proud.
We are proud of Caytah-Leigh Koeberg and Matthew Paxton who are currently representing Eastern Province at the SA Provincial tournament in Bloemfontein.
Eight senior boys and girls participated in the Fichardt Park McDonalds Tennis tournament in Bloemfontein over the weekend of 1 March. Playing without our hockey and rugby players, the teams acquitted themselves admirably, every player giving of his or her best.
In both the A and B tournaments, our girls were outplayed by very strong opposition, but must be commended for both their tenacity and exemplary on and off-court manners at all times.
In the boys sections, Union High showed their depth of talent coming second in the A section to Upington High School. Upington ended the tournament with 78 games, and Union with 72. Noä Cilliers and Peter Watermeyer were awarded the prize for the best doubles couple there.
In the B section, Union’s second four players were unbeaten against Fichardt Park, Grens, Middelburg and Upington, but on game average, the winners of this tournament were Upington again. Union had beaten them by 11 games to 10.
Mrs Vorster and Mrs Galloway would like to thank all the players for their impeccable manners and behaviour. The boys in particular, were extremely helpful with carrying luggage, packing and hooking the trailer and we were very grateful for their assistance.
On Monday the 18th of February the top 6 Junior boys and girls enjoyed a wonderful afternoon’s tennis against Gill Primary. The boys matches were tightly contested with Union losing 3 matches to 4. Special mention must be made of Peter-Daniel Clegg who won both his singles and doubles matches.
The girls did well to win by 9 matches to 0.
On Saturday our Top 12 Tennis girls travelled to Queenstown to participate in our annual tennis match against GHS. This time round Girls’ High had a very strong team and our girls had to give of their best in most of their matches. Although we beat them by 11 sets to 7, most of the.games were decided by tie-breakers. Well done to Jeanne-Marie Brummer, Lauren Rose-Innes, Tayla Kingwill, Anna Pringle, Leah Marais and Musa Kedamile for winning both their singles and doubles matches.
Congratulations to Matthew Paxton who has been selected for the Eastern Province U/13 tennis team. He will be participating in the SA primary school tennis tournament held in Bloemfontein 16-19 March.