THRIVING Kidderminster Tennis Club rounded off a highly successful season with the best attended annual meal and presentation night in their history.

Around 60 members attended the event at La Brasserie restaurant, with club president Peter Young handing out the silverware.

The 2014 season saw youth come to the fore in the club competitions with teenage left-hander Frank Carroll ending Brett Holyman’s three-year reign as senior men’s champion.

Carroll, one of a number of promising juniors at the club under the tutelage of coach Tony Wright, won a very tense first set in the final against the more experienced player before easing away to take the second and deciding set 6-2.

The 18-year-old also teamed up with younger brother George to take the senior men’s doubles title, beating the experienced pairing of Simon Rosser and club president Peter Young in the final two sets to love.

Rosser partnered Lisa Wright to take the mixed doubles, beating Polly Bayliss and Woody Burgess in the final.

Will Mackay, took the junior boys’ title at the age of 14, winning the Kidderminster Shuttle Memorial Trophy, and partnered Tom Senter to take the junior doubles too.

The club has benefitted from an increase in female members over the past couple of years, which has meant stronger competition in the ladies’ events.

Kate Wragg won the ladies’ singles, coming from a set down to beat Polly Bayliss 2-1, while in the ladies doubles Sarah Brereton and Louise Hinett teamed up to defeat Polly Bayliss and Liza Karban.

Tom Dredge was voted most improved junior and Rheinallt Evans was the popular recipient of the most improved player award.

The coach was delighted that one of his young charges had taken the senior men’s title at the club.

The club’s A team won promotion back into Division One of the Kidderminster Men’s Summer League.

Meanwhile, the club will hold its annual meeting tonight when members will be told that the club’s finances are in a very healthy position, despite recent expenditure on the new facilities.