Ulster Senior Team

The Ulster Senior Team Traveled to Leigh Sports Village, Sale for their first round of matches in the English Senior County Championships 2019-20, Division 1 North on Saturday 9th November and produced some great performances to win their opening 2 matches.

First match was against Warwickshire 2 at 11am. After the round of both Men's and Women's singles it was very close with Warwickshire taking a slender lead of 3-2, however it could have be Ulster in the lead after Tony Murphy and Matthew Cheung losing narrowly in 3 sets in Men's Singles 1 and Men's Singles 2. The 2 Woods sisters gained the 2 points in their Women's Singles matches after convincing wins.
Ulster came out strong in the Men's Doubles with Ciaran Chambers and Ryan Stewart winning 1st Men's in 3 sets, 18-21,21-14, 21-15 and Tony Murphy 7 Ryan MacBeth taking 2nd Men's in 2 sets, 21-16, 21-12. 
Warwickshire came back in the Women's doubles taking 1st Women's and 2nd Women's in 3 sets, making the overall score 5-4 in Warwickshire's favor going into final 2 Mixed Games.
Ciaran Chambers & Ciara Nelson Leveled the match at 5-5 winning 23-21, 21-14 in 1st Mixed, leaving the 2nd Mixed match to decide the the final score of the Match. Ryan Stewart & Keady Smith were tasked with getting the point for the win and they didn't disappoint winning a 3 setter 21-17 in the final games to get Ulster off to a great start to the day.

The second match of the day was against Staffordshire and it was a reversal of the morning score after the singles matches with Ulster Leading 3-2, winning 1st Men's Singles, 2nd Men's Singles & 1st Ladies Singles and unfortunately losing out in 3rd Men's Singles in 2 sets and 2nd Girls Singles in 3 very close sets.
Again Ulster showed their dominance in the Men's Doubles with Ciaran Chambers & Ryan Stewart winning a vert close 1st Men's 21-18, 21-19 and Tony Murphy & Ryan MacBeth winning 2nd Men's in 2 sets 21-14, 21-14, stretching the lead to 5-2 going into the Women's Doubles. 
Rachael & Rebecca Woods played a great 1st Women's match winning 21-8, 21-10 to secure the over all win in the match. Keady Smith & Ciaran Nelson had a long 3 set match in the 2nd Women's losing out 22-20, 20-22, 15-21. 
Onto the Mixed and Ciaran Chambers & Ciara Nelson took 1st Mixed 21-19, 21-17 and Ryan Stewart & Keady Smith won a tight 2nd mixed 21-19, 26-24 with Ulster coming out 8-3 winners in the Match.

A great weekend for the team and well done! The travelling team:
Tony Murphy
Matthew Cheung
Ryan MacBeth
Ryan Stewart
Ciaran Chambers
Rachael Woods
Keady Smith
Rebecca Woods
Ciara Nelson.

For full results click here

Thanks to Decathlon, Belfast for their support! 

Next match for the Senior Team is on 26th January 2020 at Leigh Sports Village, Sale against Lanarkshire and Oxfordshire