Men's Class One Summer League 2011 Final Result

History was made on Saturday, 25^th June with Castleknock winning the DLTC Summer League Class One event for the first time.

 

The team on the day was:

Singles

James Magee

Shane la Porte

John Rendina

Doubles

Liam Byrne & Fergus O’Connell

Neil Ryan & Connor Schelling-Tisza

Other members of the 1^st Team Squad are Fiachra Lennon, David Spollen, Laurence Doyle and Gavin GIlhawley who missed the final due to holidays.

Subs used were Richard Foley and Laurent la Forge.

It was a team effort and I would like to thank all the players who played their part in this historic event. The results show it was not a close match as Greystones were short one or two of their top players - but you can only beat what’s in front of you on the day.

Liam Byrne and Fergus O’Connell won the first doubles very comfortably 6/0 6/2 followed by Shane la Porte 6/2 6/0 and then John Rendina 6/0 6/2. So, the result was 3-0 for the history books.

I would like also to give a special thanks to James Magee for making the effort to make the long journey back from the ATP Tour in Morocco to play for his club. Thanks to David Spollen who was captain last year and got us out of Class 2 and into Class 1. However, the biggest thanks has to go to John Rendina the captain of the this year’s team  as he is the one who pushed the hardest this year to get the team ready to play in Class 1.

Next year we move into the Premier League and who knows what we might achieve with this squad of players captained by John Rendina.

Shay Dolan

Men’s Captain