Kent’s Play Your Way to Wimbledon finalists complete after junior qualifying sees wins for Bromley’s Luke Pratten and Chipstead’s Alice Moffatt
Published: 05:00, 23 July 2024
Kent’s Play Your Way to Wimbledon finalists line-up was completed with the junior singles county qualifiers.
Players from various areas of Kent took part in the boys’ event at Walmer, with Bromley’s Luke Pratten booking his place at SW19 next month with a 4-0, 4-2 win over Tony Keohane (Bromley/Beckenham).
For the girls, Chipstead’s Alice Moffatt defeated Rosie Thomson from Sevenoaks 4-1, 4-2 at Tunbridge Wells.
Other players who contested the boys’ event included Daniel Rangelov (Oakwood, Dartford), Louden Hooker (Kings Hill), Harrison Dargue (Hythe, Canterbury), Ethan Coxall (Bexley), Sam Dennison (Deal), Taran Phagura (Meopham), Max Brown (Tunbridge Wells), Jack Denton (Chipstead) and Theodore Marks (Appeti Tennis Club, Canterbury).
Isla Gardiner (Blackheath), Isla Wallis (Kings Hill Tennis Club), Ludovica Bartelli-Jones (Appeti Tennis Club, Canterbury), Jessie Paloka, Molly Davis (Maidstone), Arundhati Ajit (Bromley) and Jessica Hookway (Avenue, Gillingham) were the other girls in action at Tunbridge Wells.
Play Your Way to Wimbledon gives players the opportunity to follow their heroes and compete for the title on the Aorangi Courts from August 11-17 at SW19.
Pratten and Moffatt join Avenue Tennis Club’s Luke Ogden and Dimitar Lalov, of The Bromley Sports Club (boys’ doubles), Sevenoaks Lawn Tennis Club’s girls’ doubles winners Lucy Bear and Bella Thomson, Abi Henderson (Kings Hill) and Julia Studholme (David Lloyd Kings Hill), who will contest the ladies’ doubles, and Oakwood Tennis Club duo Patrick Bain and Benjamin Fudge, who will play in the men’s doubles, at the All England Club.
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