T E NNI S
Senior Girls’ team at AEGON national finals
Sevenoaks teams have excelled in recent
seasons and this year was no exception.
Our senior mixed doubles team kicked off the year
positively when they qualified for the national finals
after a successful run of results in the winter months.
We continued to reap the rewards of our excellent
indoor training facilities as we hit the ground running
at the Kent Doubles competition in April. Charlotte
Imbert and Phoebe Buckland were victorious in the
inter girls category after facing Juliette Briery and
Christiane Gontarek in an all-Sevenoaks final. Oscar
Brown and Kai Hayashi were also winners in the inter
boys category after a flawless run to the final.
The Summer term saw Year 7 pupils Telia Green and
Lily Hinds win the Benenden tournament. Charlotte
Imbert and Sophie Dargan made the inter girls final
of the prestigious Harpenden tournament, losing 10-8
in the third set tiebreaker versus a strong Queenswood
pair. Matthew Collins and Oscar Brown made the final
of the St George’s Pairs tournament but lost in the
final to Reed’s, and Sophie Dargan and Orissa Welsh
were triumphant at the Independent Schools Tennis
Championships at Eton College, winning the
Loveband Plate. Kent Doubles Girls
On the last day of term three teams travelled to
Tunbridge Wells LTC to compete for the Kent Inter-
Schools title. The junior boys’ team of Hugo Coquelin,
Vikas Kokkiligadda, James King and Aidan Durant
beat Norton Knatchbull School, and the junior girls’
team of Anais Fernandez-Laaksonen, Venetia Barker,
Janani Sivayogan and Telia Green beat Tunbridge Wells
Girls’ Grammar School. The senior girls (Charlotte
Imbert, Anna King, Orissa Welsh and Michelle Li)
unfortunately lost to Kent College Canterbury. Kent Inter-Schools Junior Girls winners
SPORT REVIEW
Harpenden Inter Girls finals
St George’s Pairs final
The senior girls’ team of Cathrine Hogh, Josephine
Hogh, Anna King, Sophie Dargan, Orissa Welsh and
Charlotte Imbert travelled to Nottingham in July
for the national finals. Every player performed to
her very best and we were extremely competitive
in every match. Despite losing narrowly to Millfield,
South Hunsley and Talbot Heath, the girls defeated
Pocklington, eventually finishing 14th in the country.
Charlotte Smith
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Kent Doubles Girls winners
Independent Schools
Tennis Championships
Loveband Plate
Boys regional finals
Kent Doubles Inter Boys
Year 7 Benenden winners
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