RAIN did not stop play in the 2015 Junior Confined Tennis Tournament held at the Borders Tennis Centre in Galashiels and Selkirk Lawn Tennis Club from August 6 to 16.

It was only wet on Friday, August 14, when, after a delayed start, play was able to proceed - thanks to those juniors who played through some light-heavy drizzles at times! A total of 196 entries, up from 176 in 2014, were received into the 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 & Under age groups from 108 players representing 12 tennis clubs throughout the Borders from Berwick to West Linton. St Boswells had the most club players with 19 and numbers from the newly re-formed Galashiels Tennis Club based at the Borders Tennis Centre were up to 15. Some 258 matches were played with the average time taken for the Mini Tennis 8 and 9 matches being over 10 minutes and the 10s being 36 minutes. Older age group tennis matches averaged over an hour with one over 2 hours and eleven between 100 and 120 minutes.

Juniors were allowed to enter a maximum of two Singles and three Doubles events and Hawick’s Harris Brogan managed a haul of five titles - the 12 and 14 Boys Singles and Doubles plus the 16 Boys Doubles. Robyn Harvey from the Duns club won four events - the 14 and 16 Girls Singles, the 14 Mixed Doubles and the 16 Girls Doubles titles - and was runner-up in the 14 Girls Doubles.

The winners and runners up were as follows - 18U Mixed Doubles: 1st, Gary Lemmon & Sophie MacBrayne (St Boswells & Melrose); 2nd, Rufus McLean & Jessica Lemmon (Earlston & St Boswells).

18U Girls Doubles: 1st, Hannah Bagley & Jessica Lemmon (Berwick & St Boswells); 2nd, Alice MacBrayne & Sophie MacBrayne (Melrose). 18U Boys Doubles: 1st Craig Martin & Josh Thomson (Duns & Selkirk); 2nd, Gary Lemmon & Rufus McLean (St Boswells & Earlston).

18U Girls Singles: 1st Hannah Bagley (Berwick); 2nd, Sophie MacBrayne (Melrose). 18U Boys Singles: 1st, Craig Martin (Duns); 2nd, Gary Lemmon (St Boswells).

16U Girls Doubles: 1st, Robyn Harvey & Jessica Lemmon (Duns & St Boswells); 2nd, Robyn Elliot & Zara Elliot (Innerleithen). 16U Boys Doubles: 1st, Sean Berthelsen & Harris Brogan (West Linton & Hawick); 2nd, Liam Smillie & Christian Townsend (Kelso & St Boswells).

16U Girls Singles: 1st, Robyn Harvey (Duns); 2nd, Robyn Elliot (Innerleithen). 16U Boys Singles: 1st, Gary Lemmon (St Boswells); 2nd, Angus Thomson (Kelso).

14U Mixed Doubles: 1st, Lewis Watt & Robyn Harvey (Galashiels & Duns); 2nd, Gregor Welsh & Zara Elliot (Kelso & Innerleithen).

14U Girls Doubles: 1st, Robyn Elliot & Zara Elliot (Innerleithen); 2nd, Robyn Harvey & Cameron Wright (Duns & St Boswells). 14U Boys Doubles: 1st, Harris Brogan & Gregor Welsh (Hawick & Kelso); 2nd, Lachlan Ferguson & Lewis Watt (Earlston & Galashiels).

14U Girls Singles: 1st, Robyn Harvey (Duns); 2nd, Zara Elliot (Innerleithen). 14U Boys Singles: 1st, Harris Brogan (Hawick); 2nd, Alexander Ramage (Galashiels).

12U Boys Doubles: 1st, Harris Brogan & Marcus Brogan (Hawick); 2nd, Alexander Ramage & Lewis Watt (Galashiels).

12U Girls Singles: 1st, Cameron Wright (St Boswells); 2nd, Stephanie Wright (St Boswells); 3rd, Caitlin Elliot (Innerleithen). 12U Boys Singles: 1st Harris Brogan (Hawick); 2nd, Alexander Ramage (Galashiels).

10U Girls Singles: 1st Felicity Walls (Earlston); 2nd, Leah Kane (Peebles); 3rd, Orla Folan (St Boswells). 10U Boys Singles: 1st, Ivan Burt-Smith (Selkirk); 2nd, Adam Clunie (West Linton); 3rd, Dylan Cockburn (Earlston).

9U Girls Singles: 1st, Ailsa Clark (Earlston); 2nd, Mhairi Buchanan (St Boswells); 3rd, Jessica Damerell (Earlston). 9U Boys Singles: 1st, Adam Clunie (West Linton); 2nd, Alexander Hart (St Boswells); 3rd, Thomas Elliot (Innerleithen).

8U Boys Singles: 1st, Innes Cormack (Peebles); 2nd, Ross Christie (Earlston); 3rd, John Tweedie (St Boswells).