After a week of rain interrupted matches, it was blue skies for the second round of Tennis Geelong’s Tuesday Women’s and everyone enjoyed the dry conditions.
Surfcoast Torquay have started the season well in Section 3, winning both of their matches and sitting atop the ladder.
The team finished third in the summer season and are looking to improve on that this winter, and this week defeated Highton White in a come from behind win. White took the first three sets 6-4, before Torquay hit their stride winning the final three 7-6, 6-2, 6-1, levelling the match on sets, but ahead by three games.
Barwon Heads, this summer’s runners-up, have also had a good start to the season with two wins over Moolap last week and Clifton Springs this week. There were only two points separating the Heads and Springs last summer and Tuesday’s match showed how closely the teams are matched.
Emma Webb and Tania White opened with a 7-5 win for the Heads and Shelley Sutton and Katie Hedley followed suit in the second, and that was effectively the difference between the teams. The remaining sets were split, the Heads coming out on top four sets to two with a two-game buffer.
After a difficult summer season in Section 2, Highton Gold enjoyed the hit out this week against Moolap, coming away with a 4-2 win. The team had a great start having tough wins in the first four sets, before Moolap hit back to take the final two. Gold eventual winners by four games.
Highton Blue had a tough start to the season last week going down to Torquay 6-0, but had a much better week in round 2, when they faced Ocean Grove. The teams were evenly matched throughout the day with only one game separating them going into the last two sets.
From here Blue steeled themselves, winning both sets 6-4, the 4-2 victory spearheaded by Sarah Hall taking her three sets for the day.
With three new teams to the section the players will get good variation from last season and it will take some time to see how things settle, but being the closest grade last summer, it stands to reason that this season could be just as good.
