Edgeware, Barrington on top

Press, 10 November 1986, Page 21

Edgeware, Barrington on top

Edgeware and Barrington still head the men’s and women’s points tables respectively after the third round of the B.N.Z. senior inter-club tennis competition at Wilding Park yesterday. Even though there were no major upsets in the men’s competition, several matches provided plenty of excitement. Probably the closest match was between Shirley’s Brett Hibbert and Te Kura’s Hugh Robinson. Hibbert fought well to gain a handy two-break lead in the first set, taking the set out at 6-4. Robinson narrowly won the second in a tense tiebreaker which he won, 7-5. The third set was extremely close until 3-3 when a ball was lost over the fence. After this break, Hibbert took advantage of the new balls and broke serve, winning the deciding set, 6-4. In another cliffhanger, Elmwood’s Rhett Mason fought off a spirited attack from Vernon Aubrey, of Avonhead, and came back from being a match point down in the second set tiebreaker to clinch the decider, 6-4.

Jean-Pierre Andre, at No. 3 for Elmwood, fought equally well to stave off defeat from

Avonhead’s talented youngster, Alistair Hunt. Hunt, who turns 14 tomorrow, won the first set, 6-2, and led, 4-2, in the third, but a determined Andre levelled the score, 4-4, and took the confidence to take the final two games and the match. The men’s "Player of the Day” was Brendan Furness, who showed great stamina and potential in narrowly losing to the highly ranked Ralph Webster. In the women’s section, the newly-promoted Avonside continued its winning form by downing Elmwood in a clearcut encounter. Jean Macdonald displayed great tenacity to overcome Elmwood’s hard-hitting Karen Mellish after being down a set. Fendalton only just managed to beat United on a countback of games in their contest. The women’s “Player of the Day” award went to Shirley’s Sally Moorfield, whose deft placement and concentration gained her a relatively straightforward 6-2, 6-0 win over Barrington’s Robyn Hunt. Results:

MEN Elmwood 6, Avonhead 0 R. Mason and R. Dalman

beat V. Aubrey and D. Mitchell, 6-3, 6-2; B. Williams and J. P. Andre beat A. Hunt and J. Prouting, 6-4, 6-4; Mason beat Aubrey, 3-6, 7-6, 6-4; Dalman beat Mitchell, 62, 6-2; Williams beat Prouting, 6-2, 6-1; Andre beat Hunt, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5. United 5, Fendalton 1

J. Honeywell and S. Perkins beat A. Adair and 8.. Furness, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4; R. Webster and N. Pattinson beat M. Mabin and A. Ellis, 62, 6-3; Honeywell lost to Adair, 3-6, 4-6; Webster beat Furness, 7-6, 5-7, 7-5; Perkins beat Mabin, 6-3, 6-2; Pattinson beat Ellis, 6-4, 7-6. Edgeware 6, Cashmere 0 S. Harley and M. Mooney beat J. Brightwell and H. Jamieson, 6-4, 6-7, 6-1; T. Mooney and J. Smith beat C. Hunt and A. Bruce, 6-2, 4-6, 76; Harley beat Brightwell, 6-3, 6-2; M. Mooney beat Hunt, 63, 6-4; T. Mooney beat Jamieson, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3; Smith beat Bruce, 6-2, 6-2. Shirley 5, Te Kura 1 B. Hibbert and M. Granger lost to H. Robinson and A. Batie, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; P. Hampton and D. Sandford beat F. van Opzeeland and D. Terrace, 6-7, 6-0, 6-3; Hibbert beat Robinson, 6-4, 6-7, 6-4; Hampton beat Batie, 6-3, 4-6,

6-4; Sanford beat van Opzeeland, 6-3, 6-4; Granger beat Terrace, 6-2, 6-2. WOMEN Barrington 4, Shirley 2 R. Hunt and D. O’Malley lost to S. Moorfield and J. Lake, 3-6, 2-6; L. and V. Ratana beat L. Johnson and D. Hampton, 1-6, 6-3, 7-5; Hunt lost to Moorfield, 2-6, 06; L. Ratana beat Johnson, 16, 6-3, 6-3; O’Malley beat Lake, 7-5, 6-4; V. Ratana beat Hampton, 6-1, 6-0. Avonside 4, Elmwood 2 J. Phillips and K. Young beat A. Culhane and K. Mellish, 6-1, 6-3; J. Macdonald and P. Morris beat A. Barlow and J. Lavender, 7-6, 7-6; Phillips beat Culhane, 6-2, 75; Young lost to Barlow, 4-6, 4-6; Macdonald beat Mellish, 2-6, 6-2, 6-2; Morris lost to Lavender, 2-6, 2-6. Fendalton 3, United 3 (Fendalton 61 games. United 60) A. Brading and C. Viggers lost to P. Lewthwaite and L. O’Dell, 6-2, 2-6, 6-7; M. J. Burke and J. Ceelan lost to J. Reid and R. Gardiner, 3-6, 26; Brading lost to Lewthwaite, 2-6, 3-6; Viggers beat Reid, 62, 6-2; Burke beat Gardiner, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Ceelan beat O’Dell, 6-2, 6-2.