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THE Tatton Park Country Fair is being held over the weekend of 23-25 August at Tatton Park, and this year the fair has more attractions than ever. Event organiser Living Heritage has teamed up with the Stockport Express to give away 10 family tickets for the show.
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BACK-HAND: Darren O’Donnell in action. Photo courtesy of UK Deaf Sport
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Medal eludes Darren
6/ 8/2008
CHEADLE Hulme’s Darren O’Donnell and Poole’s Sidney Falconer narrowly missed out on winning a men’s doubles bronze medal on Friday at the 11th European Deaf Tennis Championships in Bucharest, Romania.
After dropping just one game in their opening match against Dutch opposition earlier in the week, O’Donnell and Falconer eased in to the semi-finals with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Norwegians Andreas Hildrum and Jostein Dale.
However, a guaranteed medal slipped away when the British pairing were outlasted by French pairing Mikael Laurent and Maxime Sanchez, who won their semi-final 6-4, 6-7, 6-2.
Fourth seeds O’Donnell and Falconer took German second seeds Urs Breitenberger and Gunnar Kett to a third set in Friday’s bronze medal play-off, but the Germans held on to secure their place on the podium 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.
O’Donnell had been looking for his second men’s doubles medal in successive European Championships, having partnered fellow Briton Anthony Sinclair to a bronze medal in France in 2004 before they also went on to clinch bronze in the Melbourne Deaflympics in 2005.
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