SO few girls have entered this year's York Junior Tennis Championships that no finals will be played.

It follows a worrying trend for local tennis officials who have had to cancel women's events in the York Municipal Championships in the last two years.

Numbers are down on last year with a total of only a dozen girls entering in four age groups. With three girls in each group, they will play each other on a round-robin basis.

York, Fulford and Wigginton TCs have provided the largest number of players for the boys' events, but there has been a low entry from other clubs in the York area.

The championships will be at the University of York on July 26-27.

Saturday, July 26

Under-10 boys: Jonathan Sellars, Casey Want, Christopher Thompson, Mathew Williams, Jamie Mcleod, Daniel Boyle, Scott Shepherd, Tom Craddock.

Round robin matches with top two game scorers progressing to the final. Report 9am. Play starts at 9.15am.

U12 boys group 1: Daniel Williams, Adam Room, Max Henderson, Chris Baughan, Joshua Miller, Evan Rainey; group 2: Tom Pepper, Ben Walker, Edward Clapham, Christopher Pillai, Gareth Webb, Joe Fox.

Round robin matches with top game scorer in each group progressing to the final. Report 9am. Start 9.15am.

U14 boys group 1: Jonny Holbek, John Patrick, Will Parker, James Edmondson, William Peeke-Vout; group 2: Andrew Senior, Joe Mills, William Ellis, Craig Jackson, Andrew Smith; group 3: Andrew King, Robert Lucas, Bradley Want, Tom Hart, Ben Macleod; group 4: Nigel Bancroft, Tom Boyle, Scott Farquhar, Tom Walker, Jack Page.

Round robin matches with top scorer in each group in to semi-finals, then final, Report 1pm. Play starts at 1.15pm.

Sunday, July 27

U16 boys group 1: Martin Wilson, Patrick Herriott, James Pauw, Alistair Stringer, Ben Storey, Ross Welsh, James Walker; group 2: Daniel Bruce, Alex Herriott, Christian Pillai, Wesley Casey, Ross Farquhar, James Want, Simon White.

Round robin matches. Top game scorers from each group in to final. Report 9am. Starts 9.15am.

U10 girls: Rebecca Turnbull, Philippa Jones, Emily Garland

U12 girls: Jane Wallace, Nataline Jones, Emma Pauw.

U14 girls: Fay Chapman, Claire Cordukes, Chloe McLaren.

U16 girls: Jenny Rowland, Kate Empson, Laura McMahon.

All girls age groups to report at noon. Winners and runners-up trophies will be warded to the top two scorers in each group. No final will be played.

Fulford's youngsters warmed up for the event with their own club championships with brothers Matthew and Scott Shepherd collecting titles.

Matthew beat Chris Baughan 6-3 in a hard-hitting U14 final while Scott defeated Max Henderson 6-5 in the U12 final.

In the girls matches, Maddy Bruce beat Alice Lloyd-Jones 6-1 in the U10 final, Emma Pauw edged out Sophie Evans 6-3 at U14 level and the U16 final was won by Jenny Rowland, 6-0, against Amanda Coward.

At the other end of the age scale, York TC's men's veterans team opened their Yorkshire League campaign by beating Rastrick 3- at Clifton Park.

Bob Audsley and Neil Giltrap halved with A Allock and B Spiggs 6-7 6-4 and beat D Smith and F Starbrook 6-0 6-1. John Linfoot and Howard Pallister beat Allcock and Spriggs 6-4 6-1 and Smith and Starbrook 6-2 6-0.

Updated: 10:06 Tuesday, July 22, 2003