Tennis tournament serves up shocks
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The Bunbury Tennis Club Doubles Club Championships concluded at the weekend with both the men’s and ladies divisions producing unexpected winners.
The tournament began at the start of the month and ended on Saturday with some high quality tennis played throughout.
In a rematch of last year’s final, Katrina Jones and Peta Parsons defeated the defending champions Colleen Edwards and Penelope Martella in a thrilling three set match that went the distance 6-2 4-6 6-2. Jones and Parsons looked like running away with the match after the first set but Edwards and Maratella did well to take the game to a decider.
The match provided a fine showcase of intelligent tennis with both teams relying on their skills rather than pure power to win points.
In the men’s doubles, Carl Parking teamed with young gun Sam Gelati to cause a major upset, beating last year’s champions Phil Wright and Andrew Woodward 6-3 6-4. The impressive win highlighted the skill set of all four players involved with some exceptional volleying, lobbing and smashing on display.
The ladies doubles plate was won by Michelle Gibb and Amanda Kongras while the men’s doubles plate went to Shyaam Patel and Owen Kirkam.
The ladies doubles B grade was won by Elma Orr and Margret Burton.
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