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TENNIS: Grace grabs national glory
9:56am Friday 21st September 2007
Grace Lymer-Sullivan, from Abingdon produced some sparkling play to win the 12 & Under Girls Sunday Telegraph National Junior Tennis Finals in Center Parcs, Sherwood Forest.
Lymer-Sullivan, who arrived at the tournament as top seed after an impressive season, beat Anna Southam 6-0, 6-2 in the final to pick up the trophy.
This was despite losing one of her group matches, 6-3, 6-4 to Katie Boulter - who she then beat in the semi-finals.
OXFORD City fielded just two pairs in their OLTA Wilson Inter-Club League Ladies Division 1 clash with North Oxford, but salvaged a point in a 4-4 draw.
Esther Symmonds and Barbara Gibbins were unbeaten at first pair, with Katja Hartwich and Jo Love claiming the other one-and-a-half.
RESULTS 3-PAIR LEAGUE Ladies Div 1: Oxford City A 4, North Oxford 4. Div 2: Witney 3, Wychwood 5.
Mixed Div 1: Goring 4, Banbury 5.
q=c2-PAIR LEAGUE q=fLadies Div 1: Wantage A 1, Banbury West End 2. Div 5: Witney B 2, Colston 2. Div 7: North Oxford D 4, Goring C 0.
Men's Div 1: Cholsey A 2, Norham Gardens 1. Div 2: Faringdon 3, Cholsey .
Mixed Div 1: Oxford Sports 3, Blewbury . Div 3: Mapledurham 3, Brackley . Div 4: Portcullis B 4, Banbury B 0. Div 5: Southfield B 2, Kingston Bagpuize 2.
Oxford City face Caversham in the National Club League play-offs after winning the Oxfordshire title.
Oxford Sports ladies have made it through to the national stages after beating Maidenhead in their play-off.
They claimed the Oxfordshire crown by virtue of beating Woodstock after the sides were locked together on 14 points
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Early taste of Christmas wine
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Imagine This: New London Theatre
I had trouble shifting my +1 for the musical Imagine This, which opened last week at the New London Theatre. No-one was interested (one German friend would have come, but funnily enough I hadn’t thought to ask him), and while nobody actually said, “Sounds like a gas”, there were plenty of unprintable responses, averaging out at: “Holocaust – the musical? Um, no thanks . . . ”
Hansel and Gretel: Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company
Another winter rolls in and, to cheer our spirits, Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company travel hither and yon through the county with colour, music and fun trailing in their wake. For those of us who live in villages these harbingers of the festive season are a welcome sight.
United job is proving a big draw
Applications to be the next manager of Oxford United have been pouring in.
In this section
- Free project keeping old Oxford minds sharp
- Naked man ran across A420
- High-value cars stolen in Headington
- Fresh plea on M40 death crash
- Lorry sheds load on A34
- Teenager robbed at knifepoint
- Hundreds hit by Oxford power cut
- Train services back on track
- Death-crash driver named
- Signal problem causes rail delays
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