Tennis: More competition needed

Thursday 4th December 2008, 3:00PM GMT.

JERSEY’S young female tennis players need more exposure against experienced players to help them further with their games.

That’s the opinion of Rebecca Edwards (pictured) who headed a young Channel Islands ladies’ team to Glasgow for their Winter County League Division V programme at the weekend.

Unfortunately for the CI ladies they suffered 9-0 defeats to both the West and East of Scotland teams before then going down 7-2 on the final day against Hereford & Worcester to suffer relegation.

Edwards said: ‘It was a tough weekend and our inexperience showed against must stronger teams and players who also have a lot of experience compared to our girls.

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