Article: : Tennis tots get chance to compete.(Competitions/Offers)

Byline: NEIL MACDONALD

WIRRAL'S wannabe Wimbledon winners will get to taste the thrill of victory and pain of defeat even earlier in a new junior league.

The peninsula's under-eights' league is up and running at a pilot stage and is due to begin for real in September.

Cheshire mini-tennis development officer Graham McTaggart said the element of competition had been missing at that level of junior tennis.

``If you think of under-eight football, those players get a game against other teams every week, and it is the same in rugby, cricket, you name it.

``The LTA felt tennis players needed that same impetus and so implemented ...

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