It’s a rollercoaster in Tennis Geelong’s Section 1 Girls at the end of round 10 with top spot changing three times in the last four weeks and only 17 points separating all the teams.
The six teams have now played each other twice, so with the remaining five matches, all the girls will be pushing for every game, to ensure they aren’t the unlucky ones to miss finals.
Geelong Lawn backed up its 4-2 round 5 win over Barwon Heads, reclaiming top spot in the process this week rolling the Heads 6-0.
While the points and games were hard fought, Lawn proved too strong, with a broken string not hindering Alex Tidlacka in her 6-3 singles win.
The Heads dropped from first to fourth with the loss, highlighting how close the battle for finals positions is.
Beachside and Surfcoast Torquay tied on sets with Torquay ahead by three games in their last meeting, but the home court advantage this week helped Beachside avenge the loss in empathic fashion, also taking a 6-0 win.
Torquay struggled in the singles, but Adele McNamara and Elyssa Mutton were pushed in the first doubles winning through 6-4 for Beachside, while Jasmine Phillips and Pearl Thompson had to fight hard for the second doubles, eventually winning 7-5, pushing the team from fourth to second.
Highton and Wandana Heights have had two of the closest results in both their matches, both level on sets and the result going to Wandana by one game in round 5, and Highton by seven games this week.
Wandana started well with Neena Cumming and Putu Coco Warita winning the first two singles, before Jemima Stansfield won the third for Highton and Wandana was unable to field a player for the fourth singles.
Cumming and Warita then teamed up to take the one doubles set 6-4.
Highton finished the morning with a win and is now only 10 points out of the four.
This week will see Geelong Lawn host Highton, Barwon Heads hosts Surfcoast Torquay and Wandana Heights faces Beachside, with every outcome likely to affect ladder positions.
Good form running into the finals couldn’t be more important for all teams to give themselves the best chance of making the grand final on September 2.
