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DK Way U18 – Sunday 13 May 2018 – Charlie Wakefield

Sunday 13 May – DK Way U18 Open On 13/05/18, myself (Charlie Wakefield) and Luke traveled to Ware in Hertfordshire for the DK Way U18 Open tournament. With the mixed doubles first, I paired up with my regular mixed partner Caitlin Parfitt from Norfolk and Luke paired with Anoushka Mcintosh from Berkshire. Unfortunately, we met in the group stage in a really tough box including the No.1 seeds from Lincolnshire, Ryan Curtis and Meghan Hasall. Myself and Caitlin played the [...]

U17 Championships – Welsh Nationals 2018

Welsh Nationals 2018 – Under 17 Championship (17 March 2018) Archie Bult and Jonathan Ewins – Welsh National 2018 After a promising start to 2018 winning a Hertfordshire U17 doubles event in January, Jonathan and Archie really starting to gel as a double pair. So, after a long and hard fought weekend in the National sports centre in Cardiff, Archie and Jonathan became Welsh National Champions in the U17 doubles.  Their Championship success did not come [...]

Derby U15 Gold – Jasmine Owen

Jasmine Owen at the Derby U15 Gold – 09.09.2018 Jasmine kicked off the singles in impressive style winning her group games in style, beating Aarthy Aravind 21-10, 21-14 and Sofia Bao 21-9, 21-13. This led to a QF match against the 3/4 seed Natasha Morris. This was a tough, tense match which Jasmine lost 19-21, 18-21. Natasha went on to win the tournament. The doubles started well with Katie Reilly as Jasmines partner, winning twice before losing a three-set match to the [...]

Liverpool U15 Silver – Jasmine Owen

Jasmine Owen – Liverpool U15 Silver – 14.10.2017 Jasmine arrived at Liverpool in good spirits hoping to carry on from the previous week in good form. First up was the singles. Jasmine started very well beating Aarthy Aravind 15-5, 15-8 and Asmi Shembekar 15-6, 15-6. The final group game was a different proposition. Jasmine was up against the No. 1 seed Aditi Bhat. Jasmine started well before Aditi upped the pressure to win in three sets 15-11, 9-15, 15-10. Aditi went [...]

Bath U15 Gold – Jasmine Owen

Jasmine Owen – Bath U15 Gold  – 28.10.2017 With Jasmine having hardly trained in the last 2 weeks and still struggling with movement she decided not to enter the singles (Won by Jasmines conqueror from Liverpool – Aditi Bhat). Jasmine, reunited with regular mixed doubles partner Dan Kite struggled in the 1st round playing poorly in a loss against Logan Ireland & Keryn Swann 21-23, 19-21. Jasmine paired up with an old rival from Ireland (They had previously played each other in [...]

Nottingham Gold – U15 Gold

Nottingham Gold Under 15 – 9/10.12.2017 The Nottingham Gold saw Zak Linley -Moss win the singles & mixed, with Megan, beating the No 1 seeds – Lisa Curtin & Nadeem Dalvi (both England) – in the final, in 2 games, 21-15, 21-18.  Zak also won bronze in the doubles, but not with Charlie, who informed us he was ill on the Saturday morning, but with his friend Vidun from Yorkshire, who he has never played doubles with before! They put up a great fight against [...]

Charlie Wakefield – Lynn News write-up

Three titles for Charlie Wakefield Charlie Wakefield manages to get a write up in his local paper after the Norfolk Under 18 county championships and three titles. The ‘Lynn news’ article  can be found following the link. http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/sport/more-sport/west-norfolk-ace-charlie-15-completes-county-treble-1-8238122 Well done Charlie Wakefield

Cheltenham U17 Gold

Medals at the Cheltenham U17 Gold ForzaWM was well represented at the Cheltenham U17 Gold. With Asmita Chaudhari, Victoria Liang, Zack Schofield. Here is what they have to say about their experience. Victoria Liang was seeded 1st in mixed with partner Jack Taylor in the Cheltenham U17 gold.  They did not disappoint and went through to semi-final where they beat 3/4 seed in 2.  The final saw Victoria and Jack take the 2nd seeds Asmita Chaudhari and Ethan Rose to best of [...]

Suffolk U17B Tournament

Charlie Wakefield – Suffolk U17B  Success at the Suffolk U17 Bronze – 28 October 2017 Couple of weekends ago, Esher Bahara and myself (both  ForzaWM  players), played in the Suffolk U17B tournament in Ipswich. We were meant to be playing the Silver on the Sunday but due to lack of entries, the silver was cancelled and therefore we played doubles and mixed in the bronze (we were unable to play the singles due to our grading.) I played doubles with Benjamin [...]

DK Way U18 Bronze – Summer 2017

Luke Davies – The DK Way U18 Bronze – Summer 2017 Achievement – Position/Out of Box/ etc.. Singles runner up Mixed second in box Scores -Mixed Vs William Mullaney & Hannah Warren [5/8] Won 21-19 Vs Max Kelly & Delphi Evans Won 21-16 Vs Cameron Bannister & Abbie Smith [1] Lost 14-21 -Singles (Box) Vs Madhav Kholker Won 21-8 Vs Shareef Wadud Won 21-20 Vs Arin Hattrel Won 21-11 -Singles (Knockout) Vs Harry Goode Won 21-17 Vs Thomas Sweetnam [1] Won 21-5 Vs Jack Agnew Lost 18- 21 Opponent details – Ranking/age etc Shareef Wadud, Harry Goode [...]