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Gone Away
[by DM - 27 Sep 2004]
This season will see challenges for the World Championships in
both singles and doubles. It will also be the first season for
twenty years that James Male will not be competing for major
honours.
Gone away : not Reynard but James Male who
has retired and Challenges for both his vacated Singles and Doubles
World titles dominate the 2004/2005 Rackets season. An eliminator
for the singles Challenge will take place at Haileybury on the
20thof November and at Queens Club the following weekend. Harry
Foster, winner of last season’s Invitation singles will play Guy
Smith-Bingham, who won the Amateur Singles. The winner will play
Alister Robinson, who won the Open Singles,for the World title at
the end of January.
Former World Champions dominate the first
competition of the season with Howard Angus, Willie Boone and John
Prenn, playing in the Masters over 40s singles and doubles and over
50s doubles at Queens over the weekend of the 16th/17th of October.
The following week the Public Schools Old Boys Doubles for the Noel
Bruce Cup takes place. This is always one of the most popular and
hotly contested contests of the year. Last season a new Eton pairing
of Mark Hue Williams and Guy Smith-Bingham beat Charlie Danby and
Harry Foster in seven close games
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The Invitation Singles, from the 31st
October to the 7th November will be the first event of the season in
which the three contenders for World championship honours will come
up against each other. Harry Foster is the holder but will be
strongly challenged by both Alister Robinson and Guy Smith-Bingham.
Over the weekend of the 13th to 14th November the annual challenge
between the Professionals and the Amateurs takes place at various
schools courts and Queens.
The following two weekends are taken up
with the eliminator for World Singles and some sort of form line may
have been established by then following the Invitation Singles. This
is closely followed by the Amateur Singles starting on December the
4th with the final on the 12th of that month. Once again Robinson,
Smith-Bingham and Foster are expected to be the main contenders. On
the 14th to the 19th of December the Public Schools Singles
Championships take place at Queens Club. This season reports and
photos from inter schools matches will be posted regularly on
www.rackets-online.co.uk on Fridays. The final event before the
Christmas break will be the Under 21 and 24 Singles and Doubles.
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