Impressive Ranson bags three titles

A CAVERSHAM teenage girl secured three titles at the Racketlon British Championships held last month at The Parklangley Club, Beckenham.

Holly Ranson, 16, won the elite ladies’ singles, elite ladies’ doubles and the elite mixed doubles.

The teenager is used to success at the four-racket sport having also won three racketlon world championship gold medals last year in U21 and U16 girls’ doubles and the U21 world team event in Rotterdam.

Ranson is currently ranked number one in the world for u21 girls’ singles and doubles and she is in the top 10 for world ladies’ singles, and is the only British woman in the top 10.

Racketlon is a sport where you play your opponent at table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis, one after the other, and the winner is the player who has the most points at the end of the match. Racketlon is a growing sport with a national and international circuit of tournaments.

Ranson has been a nationally ranked and county-level badminton player since she was eight and currently plays for the Berkshire senior badminton team as well as the U19s. She also competes in Badminton England tournaments regularly.

Ranson began playing table tennis as a nine-year-old but gave up when badminton started to take over, however, she quickly picked it up again when she was 14 and began playing racketlon, she has played county U18 table tennis this season.

At Queen Anne’s School, Ranson learnt to play tennis and she is the current ladies' singles champion at Caversham Park Tennis Club. She started playing squash two years ago, at Caversham Park Village Squash Club and is now ranked in the top 25 for squash nationally at U17s girls and she played in squash nationals this year, finishing in a respectable 11th place.