Robert McGowan: The 1st team had a slow start, but this was followed by 5 successive wins anda final position of third - a most satisfactory outcome. Regulars were, Matt Fairbairn, Steven Mortimer, the Hales brothers and Jonathan Elder, supplemented by appearances from Josh, Peter and Paul from Godwin's coaching staff. We look forward to doing better still in 2009. In contrast, the 2nd team was often under-strength and found itself a little out of its depth and will hope to do better next year in Division 2. Many thanks to Mike Ballard, Steven Cox, and all the others members who helped ensure we always fielded a team. The two pair teams also had very mixed fortunes. Sekhar kindly took on the running of the 2nd team which was intended to give matches to the younger members who would not otherwise get match practice. Once again we managed to fulfil our fixtures, but found the standard just a little too high.

Jonathan Hales: The season has been the most disrupted season for a very long time and seemed to impact the mixed team more than most. Rain, bad light and teams withdrawing due to lack of players meant that, what started off as a planned short season was extended well into September and after starting with a league of 7 teams, we ended up with only 5 and played only 4 matches. So slightly disappointing results, but all players who took part enjoyed the opportunity to play mixed tennis in the summer.

Susan Glenn (Ladies Captain): The first and second team have done very well to remain in their divisions, while the third team was probably too stretched to remain in the second division this year. The two pair teams were an unknown quantity, so the first team has done well to remain in their division, and the second team has been targeted towards giving all the other players an opportunity to play in a match,so the results aren’t so important.

Ann Love: The first ladies team this season has done very well to remain in its division given the injuries that we have had with players. After a difficult start in the first three matches the players really pulled together and played very well to win the last three. The number of games won was very close to those of the winning team, but sadly not the number of sets!

Ros Hole: The 2nd team results mean that we will be staying in Division 2 next season. This was a fantastic result as we needed to ‘borrow’ players from other teams for every match due to injuries and a small pool of players. Well done to everyone who contributed to the 2nd team’s success.

Jill Walters: Thank-you to all the players who participated the ladies third team. We fought valiantly, but unfortunately had several very narrow defeats and only one win. Sadly, we will go down a division but hopefully our demotion will be short-lived and we will bounce back again next year!

Fiona Brown: This was the first year that the Bucks Shield has included a 2-pair team format, and for a club our size, I think we did really well to field so many ladies teams this year. As rules stated that players were only allowed to play in a total of two 2-pair matches if they were also playing in the 3-pair teams, this meant that a total of 17 ladies played in our 1st 2-pair team this year. With our results, we should stay to fight another year in division 1. Many thanks to everyone who played!

Lucy Arnold: There was a good response from ladies wishing to play this 2-pair, 4 set format. Regular players included Lucy Arnold, Maria Brothers, Pat Edwards, Janice Godden and Sarah Wilding backed up by Jackie Martin, June McAdam, Anita Briden, Sheila McKenna, Llanos Martinez and Roselle Beard. Despite the bad weather we managed to get all our matches played on time, and we had one stunning win at Wendover which was 4-0 whitewash!