ESSEX pair Collette Whittington and Yusuf Sheikh were both among the winners at last weekend’s Tom Elton Barratt Junior Bronze event at Bishops Stortford.
With over 70 players (32 from Essex) and more than 130 matches, it was a hectic schedule for a tournament that made a donation from all entry fees received to the charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) on behalf of Tom Elton-Barratt , in whose memory the event was held. CRY was founded in 1995 to raise awareness of conditions that can lead to young sudden cardiac death and sudden death syndrome. Please check out their website. http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/
Yusuf (pictured right) has been in excellent form this season and he added to that success with some impressive play in the boys under-11’s. He beat Hertfordshire’s Benjamin Kelling in his opening match before facing the first of two Mailik brothers, Heston. The Connaught player prevailed 11-9, 11-8 to set up final encounter with Bailey Malik which he again controlled winning 11-8, 11-3.
That win capped a busy weekend for Yusuf. On Saturday he competed in the Lakeside Junior Open in Wimbledon finishing runner up after four tough matches. His sister Aliza also competed in the boys event due to the lack of girl players. Despite winning two of her matches she just missed out on reaching the semi-finals.
Collette, meanwhile, enjoyed two comfortable victories over Isabelle Johnson and Charlotte Davies before a winner-takes-all finale against Taylor Mounter from Cambridgeshire. In what proved to be the match of the day, Collette surrendered the opening game 12-10 but came storming back in the second reversing the score in another 12-10 nail-biter. With all to play for in the third, Collette held her nerve to claim victory and first prize winning 11-6, much to the delight of her coach Dave Webster.
RESULTS:
UNDER-11 BOYS:
1st: Yusuf Sheikh Essex
2nd: Bailey Malik Sussex
3rd: Heston Malik Sussex
4th: Sumner Malik Sussex
5th: Alex Banhidai Hertfordshire
6th: Luke Scott-Stevens Hertfordshire
7th: William Pearce Essex
8th: Benjamin Kelling Hertfordshire
9th: Sonni Smee-Hotene Essex
10th: Luca Chandler Hertfordshire
11th: Freddy Cooke Hertfordshire
UNDER-13 GIRLS
1st: Ellis Miller Cambridgeshire
2nd: Ruby-Mae Hudson Essex
3rd: Alicja Emmans Cambridgeshire
4th: Harriet Callen Essex
5th: Aliza Sheikh Essex
6th: Mikayla Mann Essex
7th: Hannah Morley Essex
8th: Poppy Smee-Hotene Essex
UNDER-13 BOYS:
1st: Kian Howard Suffolk
2nd: Toby Ponting Hampshire
3rd: Joel Braddock Essex
4th: Harry Martin Essex
5th: Oscar Mitchell Cambridge
6th: Michael Tallentire Essex
7th: Brandon Higgins-Pearce Essex
8th: Zaid Mushtaq Essex
9th: Thomas Ramsay Cambridge
10th: Oliver Ramsay Cambridge
11th: Malik Bilen Cambridge
12th: Bastian Kelling Hertfordshire
13th: Max Chilver Essex
GIRLS UNDER-15’s:
1st: Nyah Williams Hertfordshire
2nd: Sarah Schofield Hertfordshire
3rd: Casey Miller Cambridgeshire
4th: Chloe Spratt Hertfordshire
5th: Eleonor White Essex
6th: India-Rose Webb Essex
7th: Amy Aspinall Essex
8th: Elli Barrott Essex
BOYS UNDER-15’s:
1st: Perry Malik Sussex
2nd: Jay Ledger Hertfordshire
3rd: Haydon Smith Essex
4th: Owen Ledger Hertfordshire
5th: Josh Abbs Cambridgeshire
6th: Tim Bacon Essex
7th: Joe Dawson Middlesex
8th: Harry Kitchens Essex
9th: Charlie Martin Essex
10th: Ross Curtis Suffolk
11th: Josh Stinson Essex
12th: William Crocker Hertfordshire
13th: Sujan Srindran Essex
14th: Joe Kyriacou Hertfordshire
15th: James Cowell Hertfordshire
GIRLS UNDER 19’s:
1st: Collette Whittington Essex
2nd: Tayla Mounter Cambridgeshire
3rd: Charlotte Davies Cambridgeshire
4th: Isabelle Johnson Surrey
BOYS UNDER-19’s:
1st: Ryan Betts Suffolk
2nd: Issac Rawcliffe Lancashire
3rd: Curtis Malik Sussex
4th: Robert Finch Kent
5th: William Henden Norfolk
6th: Richard Horswill Essex
7th: Joseph Blackmur Essex
8th: Sam McCoy Bedfordshire
9th: Zach Abbs Cambridgeshire
10th: Bilal Ahmed Hertfordshire
11th: William Johnson Hertfordshire
12th: Ben Richardson Essex
13th: Conor Adams Essex
14th: Daniel West Essex
15th: Isaac Freckleton Hertfordshire
16th: William Salmons Essex