Helensburgh Tennis Club

HELENSBURGH Tennis Club's Gordon Reid crashed out of the Swiss Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships in Geneva yesterday.

The British no.2 made a bright start to his final tournament before next week's British Open in Nottingham as he eased past a French opponent in the mens singles on Tuesday.

He beat Jean-Noel Joseph without dropping a game, and progressed to a second round match against Dutch second seed and world no.4 Maikel Scheffers. In an encouraging performance, 18-year-old Gordon was 5-3 up in the first set and 3-1 up in the second set before Scheffers finally sealed a 7-6(1), 6-3 victory. 

On Wednesday Gordon and partner Marc McCarroll beat Patrick Grabit of France and Switzerland's Alireza Kabirlaleh 6-0, 6-1 to earn a quarter-final against Dutch second seeds Scheffers and Ronald Vink, but were unable to repeat their surprise win over the reigning Doubles Masters champions in May's World Team Cup.  The Dutch duo progressed to the men's doubles semi-finals with a 6-2, 6-2 victory.

HELENSBURGH Tennis Club's ladies second team celebrated returning to division one last week with a well deserved night out at the Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club at Rhu.

The team (pictured) remained undefeated throughout the season as they finished champions of the West of Scotland League second division.

HELENSBURGH Tennis Club's four mens teams had a mixed season in the West of Scotland League.

The first team had to play without former no.1 player Steve Losh whose job took him back to a tour of duty at sea. The normal line-up was Alan MacBeath and Niall Hope at 1st couple, Robert Dunbar and Bobby Kerr at 2nd and Hadden Smith and David McCowan at 3rd.

HELENSBURGH Tennis Club's men's 4th team played host to Uddingston last week.

The top Glasgow club had been doing well in the league so damage limitation seemed to be the order of the day, but the team rose to the challenge and pulled off a narrow win 5-4.