The Drive ladies have moved through to the State League Grand Final with an impressive win over Seaside at Memorial Drive Tennis Centre. At number one singles The Drive’s Melanie Clayton outlasted Seaside’s Selina Turulja in three sets. The Drive’s Melissa Beadman and Lucy Steinberner continued their strong season with wins at 2 and 4.
Maggie Pearce managed to register Seasides only singles win with a straight set win over young gun Alana Repanich. The Drive only needed one set in the doubles to clinch the tie and move through to the State League Grand Final.
Goodwood will meet Seaside in the preliminary final after they had a resounding four rubber to two win over Kingswood. Goodwood’s Tayla Whitehouse was too strong for Yasmin Glazbrook at top single while Natasha Russell was too consistent for Tiana Glazbrook. This was followed by wins at number 3 and top double.
Trinity’s men have beaten Tea Tree Gully convincingly to move through to the Grand Final. Trinity number one Li Tu got his team off to a strong start when he overcame Tyson Devine 6-1 6-1. Trinity Gardens veteran Andrew Tavella followed suit when he defeated young gun Dale Nixon 6-4 6-3.
Trinity’s experienced double combinations got them over the line when they both registered first set wins not allowing Tea Tree Gully a look in.
Tea Tree Gully will now face Collingrove who managed to edge out Kingswood men in similar fashion to Trinity Gardens. Collingrove’s number one Oliver Douglas outclassed Kingswood’s Josh Laka to get his team away to a strong start before Kingswood’s Sean Van Rensburg levelled the match at 1 all after he defeated Matt Teivans in straight sets.
Rubbers 3 and 4 fell in favour of Collingrove with Sam Holland-Smith and Simon Bates both having wins under the intense finals pressure.
Collingrove closed out the tie when they registered a set each in doubles, eliminating Kingswood from the competition.
Women
SF[1] : The Drive 4-8-59 defeats 1-3-37 Seaside
SF[2] : Goodwood 4-8-69 defeats 2-5-57 Kingswood
Men
SF[1] Trinity Gardens 3-8-64 defeats 1-3-45 Tea Tree Gully
SF[2] Collingrove 3-8-63 defeats 1-4-56 Kingswood
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