September 29th 2007
The Scott Hampton Tennis Charity Event
What a wonderful day!!!
Wade and I want to thank everyone who took part and helped to make the day such a success and to tell you we made over £1500 for Scott's Charity - The Scott Hampton Foundation for Burkitt's Research. THANK YOU!!
Big special thanks first to ALISON for creating and organising the First U12's Junior Tournament in memory of Scott - played and enjoyed by a group of terrific boys and Lila Simpson (niece of Hugo Simpson - Scott's great friend) who won the Consolation Prize beating alot of boys!
The Final was fought with very good tennis between INIGO SLIJEPCEVIC and FELIX BLOM - who won at the end of the 2nd set tie break. WELL DONE! And Thank You to our great ROGER TAYLOR ,who presented the boys with their trophies!
The 2008 Scott Hampton Junior Tournament is already being planned! Thank you,Alison, for your great example,energy and generosity of your time.
Thank you to all the following for their amazing help, support and enthusiasm making the American Tournament possible, and without you, it would not have happened!
LIZA, who organised and motivated us into action, along with WENDY and PENG making sure we all knew what we were doing! Just AMAZING - and there on the day - non stop - the Barbeque became the centre of happy eating and chat. Mouthwatering cakes baked by Wendy and Liza - then PATRICIA, who came for a social afternoon but never made it beyond the barbeque with her apron on and cooking nonstop with Liza (and Peng and Wendy between sets!). And thank you LUCY for your yummy Pimms! Meanwhile, JENNY, our Raffle Ticket Queen, with the help of JILLY and MARGUERITE, chatted up all contestants and visitors to happily part with their money - THANK YOU ALL!!!
And a huge Thank You to ELIZABETH with the support from KEITH, who turned a chaos of 52 to 56 players into organised games - 6 sets were played with great precision!
And finally, Thank You, MARK (and all your helpers) for being there from the beginning and coordinating the day!!!Thank you SO MUCH!!!
And lastly, thank you to all the sponsors: SAINSBURYS (supplying all the Barbeque food), ROBERT HOLMES, PWP for the tennis balls, YONNEX, SHAFTESBURY DENTAL(AMIT), HEADMASTERS
PLUS Thank You WENDY, PENG and JENNY for more Prizes for the RAFFLE!!!
Scott was there in spirit and his great passion and love for tennis was realised by all of you with your enthusiasm and the huge generosity of your time and money. His Charity for Burkitt's Cancer Research is such an important cause - a rare and aggressive disease of which very little is known in terms of a cure. It is hoped through our Charity and the support of leading medical professors and doctors, actively involved in this field of research, more lives can be saved in the future.
Stephanie and Wade Hampton
Trustees