Tennis titles to Batie, Ratana
Andrew Batie and Lani Ratana won the open singles titles in the Rackets and RestringsFischer Canterbury secondary schools tennis championships which ended at Wilding Park yesterday.
Batie ended the fine run of the unseeded Brendon Furness who had toppled the top seed, Jeff Brightwell, in a very close semi-final match. Earlier Furness had upset another
seeded player, Justin Russell.
While Batie won his final comfortably enough the No. 1 girls seed, Ratana, was taken to three sets by her opponent, Ann Culhane, seeded third. In the third form grade both singles finals were won by unseeded players, Duncan Macintosh and Antonia Lewis. Results:Open Boys’ singles.—Semi-finals: B. Furness beat J. Brightwell,
6-4, 6-7, 6-4; A. Batie beat H. Jamieson, 6-1, 6-0. Final: Batie beat Furness 6-3, 6-2. Girls’ singles.—Semi-final: A. Culhane beat J. Lake, 6-4, 6-3. Final: L. Ratana beat Culhane, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. Boys’ doubles.—Final: Furness and J. Russell beat Brightwell and Jamieson, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. Girls’ doubles.—Final: Ratana and Culhane beat Lake and C. McNee, 6-2, 6-3. Mixed doubles.—Final: Brightwell and Ratana beat Furness and Culhane, 6-4, 6-4. Intermediate Boys’ singles.—A grade
final: P. Burke beat P. Burrows, 6-3, 6-1. B grade final: C. Goodwin beat D. Pratley, 6-2, 6-3. Girls’ singles.—A grade final: J. Connolly beat V. Vaughan, 6-0, 7-5. B grade final: M. Lay beat V. Clark, 62, 6-4. Boys’ doubles.—Final: T. Brightwell and P. Burke beat A. Orangi and J. O’Malley, 75, 6-3. Girls’ doubles.—Final: Connolly and Vaughan beat B. Johns and C. Beagle, 6-0, 6-0. Mixed doubles. —Burke and Vaughan beat O’Malley and
Connolly, 6-2, 6-2. Third form Boys’ singles.—Final: D. Macintosh beat S. Melloe, 6-3, 6-2. Girls’ singles.—Final: A. Lewis beat B. Bennett, 6-4, 61. Boys’ doubles.—Final: M. Jenman and A. Mehrtens beat G. Escott and M. Gray, 0-6, 63, 6-3. Girls’ doubles.—Final: M. Prendergast and Bennett beat Lewis and R. Chailies, 4-6, 60, 6-4. Mixed doubles.—Final: Jenman and Bennett beat Gray and Prendergast, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
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