THE Cumbria Men's over 65s tennis team have achieved successive promotions in the Senior's Inter County Tennis Championships and will play in Division One for the first time in 2016.
This year the team have recorded comfortable 5-0 victories over Suffolk and Norfolk, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, as well as local rivals Lancashire.
Their only defeat was a narrow 2-3 to West of Scotland, but despite this Cumbria finished top of Division Two.
Although the team has earned promotion to Division One in previous years, at 55 and 60 age levels, this was only as runners-up.
The team was comprised mostly of players from the Kendal and District Tennis League; John Bell (captain, North Lonsdale, Grange), Brian Houston (North Lonsdale, Grange), Graham Honeybone (Heversham), Peter Helme (Wanderers, Ulverston) and were supplemented by Roger Ridley (Cavendish, Carlisle) and Bryan Knowles.
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