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SPORTInG HIGHLIGHTS
 Tennis
   Eastbourne College Sussex Tennis School of the Year
National champions (SE) Elo Quitmann, Antoinette Chastang, Aria Wang and Anda Kadia
For the first time, both the boys and the girls squads reached the LTA schools winter tournament National Finals. In the regional rounds, the teams beat all their rivals in the south east including Bede’s, Hurst and Sevenoaks. In the finals, the boys finished fourth and the girls, through victories over Framlingham and Wycombe Abbey, took the national title. A notable first place for the College. The senior girls team also won their division of the winter Sussex adult club league winning all 40 sets played and not losing one.
Bella Moen reached semi-finals and finals in ITFTennis events around Britain and Europe this year.
Tegan Heaton, Wales U18 (third from left)
Phoebe Watton was selected for the Independent Schools Representative Team that played against the All England Tennis Club at Wimbledon in July. Tegan Heaton represented Wales in the Four Nations Cup and gained singles and doubles victories to help Wales defeat Ireland, Scotland and England to finish in top position. Tegan was also selected for South Wales to play in the U18 counties cup, as were Emily Gordon (Sussex), Mel Griffths (Lancashire), Bella Moen (Hertfordshire) and Summer Reeves (Kent).
US tennis scholarships
Summer Reeves has won a tennis scholarship to Carson Newman University in Tennessee and Charlotte Imbert has won an academic and tennis scholarship to Pomona University in California. From September 2020, there will be six Eastbournian pupils playing tennis and studying at USA Universities. Four more pupils are applying for tennis scholarships to the US in 2021.
    Luke Milligan coaching Summer Reeves on the College indoor court
Under the guidance of Simon Gent and his team of coaches including Luke Milligan (ex-Davis Cup player and recently appointed U14 lLTA National Coach) the boys and girls
tennis squads have enjoyed an exceptional year. Pupils received professional coaching through the year on a variety of outdoor and indoor surfaces, and the girls attended a winter training camp in Tenerife. Eastbourne College is being seen increasingly as the school of choice for elite players as well as for children of tennis playing families.
The girls were crowned Sussex Tennis School of the Year at the Tennis Sussex Awards Ceremony held at the AMEX Stadium. The award recognised consistent excellence including gaining direct entry to the National Schools Finals since 2017, and reaching the quarter-final
or better in each year, while
also being semi-finalists at the Independent Schools LTA U19 Girls National Final. The senior girls A team were pre-seeded at the National Finals again with the B team hoping to join them at Nottingham.
  Brett Hounsell, part of the boys team who reached the national finals
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