Essex Vets 1st team have gained promotion from Division 1 of the County Championships and will be going toe to toe with the Country’s best players in the Premier Division next season. The key game, last Saturday came as they defeated second placed Berkshire 6-4 and having won all of their previous games it clinched promotion meaning that the second game that day v Suffolk was a dead rubber. However just to ensure the season finished with a nice round 0 in the defeats column, Essex also took that match 6-4 for a 100% record for the season.
At the heart of the success this season have been 4 Southend based players and none more so than former international Wanda Lityńska-Sydorenko who went the whole campaign without losing any singles or mixed doubles. With this a strong base for the team to work from there were also strong performances from the rest of the team which were for the majority of the matches were Matt Spero, team captain Duncan Taylor and Zayd Mauthoor (all pictured below). For two of the season’s games the squad was added to by Andy Cunningham who plays for Hockley and Clive Carthy from the Fusion club in London.
The full results from the season were:
Essex 9 v Norfolk 1
Essex 7 v Middlesex 3
Essex 7 v Kent 3
Essex 8 v Surrey 2
Buckinghamshire 2 v Essex 8
Essex 6 v Berkshire 4
Suffolk 4 v Essex 6
The team look forward to life in the Premier Division next season.