BPS Tennis Blog, Fixtures and Results

This years event was hosted by Harrow School Bangkok, the positives of this are sleeping in your own bed and being able to rest easier with the negative being the overseas trip which creates so many off court memories.

Having had no students graduate last year both boys and girls teams were very similar with Justin and Anya being the only debutants.
As with all Division One SEASAC tournaments, 8 teams were taking part split into two pools of 4.

The girls who were runners up in 2024 were in good form having defeated the best of Bangkok in the warm up events and started strongly with wins against BSJ and SAIS 4-1 and 5-0 on the opening day.
Day 2 started in similar fashion as NIST were blown away 5–0 to confirm top spot in the group.
With the other group a lot tighter we had to wait to find out our semi final opponents as even though UWC Dover had won in similar fashion to ourselves, the other 3 teams had all won 1 and lost 2 and all won the same amount of matches (5), same amount of sets (11) so the placings were decided by games won which saw CDNIS HK squeeze through. The girls took this in their stride and duly dispatched them 5-0 to reach a third final in a row against UWC Dover.
Having won in 2023 but not really got close when losing in 2024, the girls were certainly up for it and gave their all. Although Pin held a match point in her singles and Raichah had a titanic battle in hers we couldn’t make any headway and although Asama and Mila won their doubles and Amy and Pip in doubles and Rinka in singles fought all the way we ended losing 1-4 to take the runners up spot again.

The boys had the graveyard shift on day 1 with a 3pm start and then a 7pm match so after a morning at school and a practice also at school headed over.
First up for the boys was host school Harrow who had 2 top level players heading their squad, with rules changing 3 years ago to enable students to play singles and doubles in different matches throughout the tournament, this meant although we had a set roster 1-8 for the event match by match rotation was possible. With this in mind, I had decided to gamble a bit and put top seed Al into the doubles to try and strengthen both pairs. True to form as hard as Pete and Justin tried the Harrow top 2 had too much in their locker so we were quickly 2-0 down. Al and Philip quickly won their doubles to stem the flow and then Anton had an excellent match at singles 3 which he managed to sneak in the deciding super tiebreak. Unfortunately, the best laid plans didn’t quite come off as even though team captain Munk and Stefan led 4-2 3-2 they couldn’t quite get over the line losing in their super tiebreak.
The boys bounced back defeating TTS 4-1 to end the day with a win and a loss.

January has seen a hive of activity at the tennis courts with both JV and Varsity invitational singles events taking place plus a Varsity invitational team event and even a Sunday morning match with ISB.

These three weekends of events have seen 250 students from international schools competing and with all events run using the UTR platform it has seen many matches added to the system which in turn has seen many ratings improve.

These matches as ever also provide fantastic opportunities for students to develop tactically and compete at a level which is challenging and rewarding.

Last Saturday saw our first event of 2025 with the JV invitational singles events.
100 students from Bangkok International Schools came to play with the boys event kicking things in the morning.
With all players split into groups of 8 by their UTR ranking each draw was competitive as standards were similar.
Congratulations to Tyno who won the top section defeating teammate Hanson in the final whilst all other players won one of their two matches played which considering they were all the top section was a good effort.
The girls were then in action in the afternoon. BPS provided two section winners with Tatsha winning the top level and Alisa level 4 whilst Anya and Emily lost in the final of level 2 and 3 respectively so again some strong performances.
Overall 110 matches were played which for many of the visiting students was the first time they had competed at Patana since the covered courts had been built.

The Tennis Academy in conjunction with SILC hosted a Pink Tennis Charity event for the Queen Sirikit Center breast cancer foundation.
90 players took to the courts in a fun filled event with some fantastic outfits on show.
With both a competitive and a social section running side by side the courts were full of laughter all morning and was great to see such a vibrant community spirit.
Around 150,000 baht was raised on the day.

The U14 tennis season

The U14 tennis season concluded last Saturday with the end of season BMAC tournament, which although sanctioned under the BMAC conference umbrella is almost a hybrid tournament as three of the six schools taking part are from the BISA conference.

Patana hosted the girls whilst ISB were the boys host school.