National Junior League Results – Day 4 – 5th Mar 2022
By ATTC Webmaster on Mar 06, 2022 with Comments 0
This season we have 3 Ashford teams (same as 2019-20) in the NJL.
Ashford competed in the fourth and final day of the National Junior League (Under 19’s) at Cippenham, Slough.
The A Team played well – finishing 2nd in Division 1 with a silver medal. The B team were awarded a bronze medal in Division 2. The C team were awarded certificates for their performance in Division 4.
Special thanks go to Fung Fung for providing much valued coaching support.
Once again Mark Roper did a great job of running the event by keeping 24 teams fully engaged and on schedule.
Ashford A – Division 1
Team: Harshil Shah, Parin Shah, Ashrith Behara
Ashford A, playing in the top Division 1, finished as runners up to Graham Spicer.
They won two of their three matches convincingly (7-2 vs Chiltern A; 6-3 vs Hillingdon), but lost 3-6 to the winners of the division, Graham Spicer.
Harshil dropped only one set all day and finished runner-up to George Stanev in the averages.
Ashford B – Division 2
Team: Neil Prabhu, Daniel Winders, Saharsh Didigam
Ashford B camne up against against three tough “A” sides – Kingfisher, Warren Spring and Cippenham.
The closest match was a 4-5 loss against eventual division 2 winners Kingfisher A. They found runners-up Warren Spring far too strong – losing 0-9 but did better against Cippenham A, reducing the loss to 3-6.
With 7 points they finished in 4th place.
Ashford C – Division 4
Team: Angad Saggu, Finn Bardwell, Maninder Saggu
Ashford C, played in a sharply divided Division 4 – two stronger teams against two finding the going very tough.
The two at the top (Chiltern B and Rosehill) inflicted 2-7 and 1-8 losses on the C team, leaving the result against Cippenham B as all important.
In a close battle, the C team narrowly lost 4-5 and thus finished in 4th place.
Full Tables, Results and Averages (PDF)
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