The first weekend of County Championships Junior Division 1A was held last weekend at St Nicholas Leisure Centre, Warwick.

Warwickshire Juniors whose team comprised Sam Cafearo of Rugby, Timmy Cooper, Livvy Fletcher and Lewis Singleton of Lillington Free Church and Lisa Rinnhofer of Colebridge, found the going tough on Day 1 in Division 1A of the County Championships.

They started with a good draw against Staffordshire. Cafearo won his two singles overcoming Lewis Acton and Jack Wood and Cooper defeated Luke Gittins. Fletcher and Rinnhofer both won one of their two singles, Fletcher beating number one Aimee Evans (ranked 31 in England) but losing to Georgina Harris, whom Rinnhofer beat.

Warwickshire’s only success in  a 1-9 loss to Nottinghamshire came courtesy of Fletcher who defeated Jess Lindsey (67) and she starred in the 3-7 loss to Yorkshire’s B side, accounting for Alice Rice and Ffion Myers (45), who also fell to Rinnhofer.