It has been an action packed year for Tennis Geelong competition and it culminated on Thursday with four Triples grand finals.
Wallabies and Bannockburn’s Ace Ace Baby were almost impossible to separate with a win each during the season, and only one point separating them at the end.
This Section 2 final was bound to be good. Remington Clarke got Wallabies off to a good start with a 6-2 win in the first singles, while David Payne and Courtney Hicks got Ace Ace Baby on the board, winning through in a tiebreak. Darryl Mohr evened the score with Hicks in the second singles winning in a tiebreak, while Payne paired with James Sheenan to level the match with their 6-1 win.
With only one game separating the teams going into the final two sets, tensions were high, but Ace Ace Baby came out firing with Hicks and Sheenan winning 6-3 and Payne winning his third set for the night 6-2 giving the team a 4-2 win.
Lara Green would have been considered underdogs in the Section 3 final with their one meeting with Rally Cats being a 6-0 whitewash to the minor premiers, but anything can happen in finals.
The teams split the first two sets, before Ben Griffin put Lara ahead with his tiebreak win, then Joshua Simic and Christopher Brown followed suit also winning in a tiebreak, putting the team up by two sets. This lead proved to be enough when Griffin and Brown won the third doubles, putting Lara at four sets and the win.
Grovedale Grand Slammers were undefeated during the season in Section 4 and continued their good form in their final against Grovedale’s Backhanded Compliments.
Father and son pairing of Matt and Fletcher Allen kicked off with a 6-1 win, while Aki Bhatt also played well to take the first singles 6-2. Compliments put themselves on the board when Ishan Phule won the second singles 6-0, but it was all Slammers from there, winning the night 5-1.
In the closest match of the night Leopold Lizards hosted Highton Flyers in the Section 5 final.
Hayden Walters and Georgia Verlin started well for Lizards with a 6-1 win in the first doubles while Erin Wilkinson countered for Flyers taking the first singles 6-0.
The Lizards took charge in the middle part of the match with Walters teaming with Cheyenne Walters, and winning 6-3, while Verlin took the singles 6-4. With a two set and four game lead, Lizards were in the driver’s seat, however, Flyers weren’t going to give it away and came out firing, with Wilkinson and Pri Sandhu winning 6-0 in the doubles, then Will Gruer sealing the match for Flyers with a 6-3 win.
