Reid wins NWTA Junior Award

Just a few weeks after being named Tennis Scotland's Male Junior Player of the Year, Helensburgh's Gordon Reid was named Junior of the Year by the National Wheechair Tennis Association of Great Britain (NWTA) in Goucester.
 
Although Reid was not able to attempt to regain the Men's Singles title at the 2009 National Wheelchair Tennis Championships, due to school exams, the annual NWTA Awards on Sunday evening saw Reid named as the Junior of the Year for the second successive year. 
 
The latest award was again presented for performances in 2008, when Reid became Britain's first ever Boys' Singles champion at the Junior Masters in Tarbes, France and became the youngest ever British Men's No 1 after a string of high level performances that also resulted in a career high Men's Singles wold ranking of No 24.  his 2008 performance were responsible for Reid beginning 2009 as the No 1 ranked Junior player in the world.
 
In Reid's absence, his award was colllected by fellow Scot Peter Moore, one of the players to encourage Reid's early development at Glasgow Wheelchair Tennis Club.
 
Moore was one of three Scottish representatives in the Men's Main Draw Singles at the 2009 National Championships, along with former National Championships B Division Singles winner and fellow Glaswegian Ryan Macdonald and Beijing Paralympian Kevin Simpson, from Linlithgow.
 
Macdonald had the misfortune of drawing former British No 1 Jayant Mistry in the first round, losing out 2-6, 1-6 to Mistry, who went on to clinch his 14th National title after having beaten Simpson 6-2 6-2 in the semi-finals.  Meanwhile, Moore came close to booking his place in the second round, but ultimately lost out 7-5, 4-6 4-6 to Warwickshire's Keityh Whiley.
 
Simpson, a finalist in the Men's Doubles in 2008, again came up against Mistry in the first rond of this year's Men's Main Draw Doubles, with Mstry and Yorkshire's Kevin Plowman going on to beat Simpson and Sheffield's Alex Jewitt 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.
 
Macdonald and Moore also paired up for the doubes, but lost their first round match against Welsh duo Philip Cochrane and Matthew Faucher 1-6, 2-6.
 
Elsewhere at the National Championships, Hawick 13-year-old Donald Gray took part in the Lord's Taverners Wheelchair Tennis Championships, but depsite his best effort he was unable to get past the first round in either his singles or doubles events
 
Meanwhile, Glasgow's Sarah Baillie went out in the first round of the Ladies B Division Singles before winning the consolation singles event with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Yorkshire's Michelle Oglesby.
 
Baillie and her Middlesex-based doubles partner Tim Rushby-Smith also narrowly lost out in the final of the B Division Doubles, beaten 4-6, 6-7(2) by Buckinghamshire's Neil Ross and Leicestershire's Idris Popat.