Hurst carry theirtitle-winning form into the openingsummer fixtures

Both men’s teams won their Winter Leagues, with the firsts, skippered by Alan Dovey, heading Division 7 East to reach the county-wide Division 6 for the first time, while the seconds, led by Rob Timms, were also promoted as champions of Division 10 East.

In their summer openers, the second team beat Cooden Beach 3-1 and the first team, playing in the Summer Division 6 for the first time, defeated Angmering 4-0.

Chairman Alan Bedford said that for a small village club to have both men’s teams as champions was a great achievement.

Weald: It has been a busy time with numerous matches across the county.

Highlight of the weekend must be the ladies 1st team’s 5-1 home win against The Rookery Club,Brighton in what was their second Regional League match.

After a heavy loss at Westside two weeks earlier the team was at full strength as they won all four singles.

At No 1 captain Petra Sedova battled hard to beat Lisa Phillips 6-4, 6-3 in a long, mentally draining encounter but Freya Loughton won comfortably 6-4, 6-1 against Alice Robson. That score was matched by Flaminia Martin against Sharon Fitton, while Claudia James fought back from a set down to defeat experienced opposing captain Helen Mitchell 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Petra and Claudia then won the top doubles in a match tie break decider but the Rookery avoided the whitewash by taking the final doubles 4-6, 6-7.

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