Jack tastes double success

JACK OLDFIELD pulled off six singles victories in two days at the weekend, winning comfortably at the Totally Tennis Club in Basingstoke on Saturday and at the Esporta Riverside Club in Watford on Sunday.

At the Basingstoke event his toughest challenge came in the semi-final against Hampshire's Joshua Goodger.

Oldfield opened the match without dropping a game in the first set and was surprised when his opponent played the second set without error, forcing a second set tie-break.

The Sarnian held his nerve with some carefully constructed points and won the set 9-7 in the tie-break to book his place in the final.

The final proved to be less close, despite his opponent being a higher ranked player.

Oldfield (pictured) dominated with some well placed, powerful serving and won dropping only four games in the two sets.

Accompanied by his father, Oldfield then travelled to Watford for another event on Sunday, which included several county ranked players from Hertfordshire and Suffolk.

With confidence riding high after the previous day's victories, Oldfield got into his stride quickly in the final and beat another Herts player, Jeremy Gschwendtner, for the loss of only one game.