It was perfect conditions for the final week of Women’s Monday competition, and the tennis was as good as the night.
Both Section 1 matches were played at Drysdale with Sets and the City playing Rust-eze in the final, and Drysdale matching up against Highton.
Drysdale started with a quick 8-1 win while Kate Lockhart and Kylie Moss had a mammoth battle against Kirsty Rixon and Amanda Andrews eventually getting up in a tie-break.
Renee Colley and Sophie Harris sealed the match for Drysdale with another tough 8-5 win while Michelle Dawson and Nerida Povey regrouped to take the final set 8-6 for Highton.
The final was epic with the match taking two and a half hours, with Rust-eze mother-daughter combo of Mel McClelland and Annie Cayzer, spending the most time on court.
Long rallies and long service games were a feature of their first set against Erin Wilkinson and Meg Squire, with the match eventually going to the family pairing 8-6.
On the other court Sarah Williams and Belinda Lee kept the minor premiers in front with their 8-3 win over Andrea Eccleston and Maria O’Donnell.
The reverse doubles were another display of long rallies and close games, with Eccleston and O’Donnell reversing their result, getting up 8-4 for Rust-eze before McCelland and Cayzer sealed the team’s victory with a win in a tie-break over Williams and Lee.
The Section 2 grand final featured undefeated Smash Hits teams against the Wandana Heights Warriors.
The Smash Hits dominated the competition for the whole season losing two sets across six weeks.
The grand final proved to be no different. Katie Nalesnyik and Ann-Maree McCaskill got the Smash Hits off the right foot, winning 8-0, while Claire Mullen and Lisa Thorn weren’t far behind with a 8-2 triumph.
The teams swapped opponents for the second round of the doubles, but Nalesnyik and McCaskill kept their momentum going with another 8-0 result, and Mullen and Thorn again featured in a 8-2 victory.
The third place match pitted the Western Heights Warriors against Wallabies. Both matchups during the season finished in 3-1 wins for Western Heights. They started strong again in the final, with an 8-1 win for Kelley Callanan and Ruth Shirley, and a very competitive 8-5 finish for Carmel Addlem and Debra Brackley.
The Wallabies’ Sheree Holdsworth and Kirstee Mathews fought back in the second round with a 8-2 win over Callanan and Shirley, but Western Heights’ Addlem and Brackley were too strong, finishing a 3-1 team win with a 8-0 set.
