Highland Spring Tennis Tournament Continues
Play resumed at Pomander Gate Tennis Club on Wednesday morning with many of the islands top junior tennis players in attendance. For the most part, the top seeds earned their stripes by winning their matches. However all players demonstrated enthusiastic and exhibited patience throughout the mid morning rain delay.
Day 3 results for matches completed:
- Boys/Girls under 10 – Mathew Way def Sebastian Smith 11-9, 9-11, 11-4
- In the consolation rounds Essien Binns def Andrea Grandisson 11-5, 11-0
- Boys under 12 – Daniel Phillips def Max Robb 6-0 6-0
- Boys under 12 – Kairo Morton def Henry Boyle 6-3 3-6 11-9
- Boys under 14 – Scott Redmond def Nick Cooper 6-0 6-1
- Boys under 14 – Ben Jones def Amir Thomas 6-1 6-2
- Boys under 14 — David Gibbons def Kairo Morton 6-3,3-6,10-7
- Boys under 16 – Luke Bell def Andrew Blee 6-1 6-1
- Boys under 16 – Scott Redmond def John Ewels 6-1 6-1
- Boys under 18 – Luke Stirling def Trey Mallory 7-5 7-5
- Girls open RR – Imani Phillips def Kaila Harvey 6-2 6-1
A spokesperson said, “The match of the day, appropriately on center court was the boys 18 round robin between Trey Mallory and Luke Stirling. Trey who is only 13 years old, moved ahead in the 1st set 4 games to 1, before Luke settled down and found penetrating length on both sides of the court.
“The rallies were long and the great majority of shots from both players were strong top spin, interspersed with the occasional cross court slice shot. Luke eked out the first set 7-5.
“The second set was a near carbon copy image with 16 year old Luke again finding himself down 4 – 1 before settling down. He made fewer errors as the set progressed and won the second set also by a score of 7-5 Bermuda’s tennis future d=bodes well with the quality of our up and coming juniors.”
