It was round eight this week for Tennis Geelong’s Senior Competition, and the first games of the second half of the season, and in Section 3 Open, all three matches saw teams reverse their fortunes from round one.
Ladder leaders All Saints travelled to Highton to face their White team. Round 1 saw All Saints take a comfortable 3-1 win, but this week White turned their form around sneaking home with a one-game win tying on rubbers and sets.
Corey Herd started the match well for White, winning the first singles 6-3, 6-0, while Colin Dempsey and James Dat levelled the score winning the first doubles 6-2, 7-6.
Dat put the Saints in front when he won the second singles 6-3, 6-2, but Herd and Joshua Palmer pushed through in the second doubles to win 7-5, 6-4 for White leaving them with the win by the closest of margins.
Second placed Surfcoast Torquay hosted Highton Blue and didn’t enjoy the rain-delayed match going down three rubbers to one.
Blue gave themselves the lead after the first two rubbers with Caleb Brozina winning the singles 6-3, 6-2 and counterparts Oliver Murphy and Will Burke battled to win the doubles 6-4, 6-4.
Murphy backed up in the second singles winning 6-1, 2-6, 10-8 to seal the match for Blue, the only success for Torquay being the second doubles with Vander and Jason Withers coming through 6-3, 6-4.
With Lara having the bye, the final match of the round was between Wandana Heights and Highton Gold.
In round one the teams were drawn on rubbers and sets, with a seven-game advantage to Gold.
The day started in similar fashion with Gold’s Sara Chol and Daniel Locke taking a win in the doubles 6-4, 6-4, and Wayne Gear winning the singles for the Heights 6-4, 6-3 giving his team a one game lead.
From there Wandana took control with Terry Mills winning through in the second singles 6-2, -3, before Gear teamed with David Treacy to win a hard-fought doubles 7-5, 6-3, 10-2 sealing the victory three rubbers to one.
