Surrey starlets selected for Home International

Two leading girls amateurs from Surrey have been selected to represent England in the Girls’ Home International title at Lanark, Scotland, from 5-7 August.

Roehampton’s Sammy Fuller and Lizzie Prior from Burhill are among an eight-strong squad that will be defending the title it won last year, and who will be hoping to add an eighth successive win for the English team.

The pair is joined by Emma Allen (Hants), Annabel Bailey (Leics), and Hollie Muse (Lancs), while three further players will be picked at the end of next week’s English girls’ championships at Sheringham and Royal Cromer in Norfolk. All five players already in the squad represented England in the recent European girls’ team championship and Allen, Muse and Prior were in last year’s winning team at the Girls’ Home Internationals.

Prior, 17, comes into the tournament in excellent form, having been runner-up in the English women’s amateur and won the Fairhaven Trophies and the Critchley Salver this season. She also tied second in the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters.