Luke Davies – Warwickshire U18 – May 2018

Warwickshire U18 Open – Luke Davies Won 2 bronze medals.

In the mixed I partnered my regular partner Safia Khimji from Oxfordshire, and in our first round we came up against Ethan Dalley and Mia Kirk. In the first game we found ourselves 14-11 but Ethan and Mia couldn’t quite finish it and Safia and we held our nerve to comeback and win 17-15 and in the second we got off to a better start and held on to win 15-13. Next round was the quarterfinal and we found ourselves against England players and the second seeds Nathan Moore and Milly Evans. Fortunately we got off to a good start and managed to pull away to win the first 15-13, but Nathan and Milly pulled the second in a 15-10 win for them and they looked like they would win the score being 14-10 in favour of them but not to be beaten easily Safia and I battled back to win 17-15. In the semi- final we found ourselves against my partner for the day Ryan Curtis and his partner Zoe Siu and despite our best efforts they proved to good on the day and were good enough to win 15-11 15-11 which left us with the bronze.

In the doubles I partnered Ryan Curtis and we found our selves in a extremely competitive box. First we played Joe Herbert and Owen Waters and we had an overall solid game but a shaky second game but it was good enough to win 15-8 10-15 15-4. Next we played an unbelievably hard pair in Brandon Adams and Matthew Bickerton; the first game came right down to end with the score being 14-all next point wins but unfortunately for me Brandon and Matt held their nerve to win it and take the first game 15-14 and Brandon and Matt managed to carry that momentum into the next game and win 15-12. Next up we had to play Zack Brobowski and Max Kelly and we had another solid match and were fortunate enough to win 15-7 13-15 15-8. As the second placed pair in our box we had to the winners of the other box being first seeds Nathan Moore and Ewen Stephen and they proved to good for us on the day and we unfortunately lost 8-15 10-15 to take a bronze medal.  

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