Woodhouse Grove have won the under-16 boys' event in the North of England Schools LTA Championships at Bolton Grammar School.

Daniel Wise and Iain Atkinson, pictured, were the winning duo, and Tom Loughton and Ben Murray-Potts were semi-finalists in the under-19 event.

The under-16 victory was particularly appropriate as they lifted the R L Bolt Trophy, named after Grove's long-serving senior boarding house master and maths teacher Ronald, who died recently.

Joe Gowon, educated at the school from 1979-86 and now sports development officer there, said: "Everyone connected with the school and who were fortunate enough to have known him will testify how delighted he would have been to learn pupils from his former school lifted his trophy."

Atkinson and Wise were in a ruthless mood during the day-long event, played on both hard and shale courts.

They didn't drop a rubber and barely lost a game in overcoming Ampleforth College 10-0, Grange 10-1 and Durham Johnston, Cockermouth and Hymers College (Hull) all by two rubbers to nil.

The East Yorkshire school failed to win a game in the final as both Wise and Atkinson notched 6-0, 6-0 successes.

Loughton and Murray-Potts were equally convincing in their march through to the last four at under-19 level as Stonyhurst College and the hosts were both beaten 10-0 before Winstanley College were ousted 2-0 on rubbers in the quarter-finals.

However, they were then second best to Altrincham High, who triumphed 1-.