The tightest contest of the season decided Tennis North's peak club competition on Wednesday night, with Riverside Ramjets holding off Trevallyn Titans for the title.
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When Ramjet Ryan Walker took to the court for his singles against Trevallyn's Phil Bonney, he knew every point mattered. Despite only winning two games in a 2-6 loss, Walker had done enough to give Ramjets the grand final, three matches all, 26 games to 24.
He said he'd done a Steve Bradbury, the Olympic skater who won gold when rivals fell, but the night was jampacked full of great tennis.
Oliver Hadley gave the Ramjets a great start with a 6-2 win against Jeff Speer but Titan David Beattie turned the tables to overcome Tim Stirling 6-1.
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Beattie and Bonney clinched a tiebreaker against Stirling and Walker and it took a 6-1 Riverside victory in the next doubles to give the Ramjets a sniff of victory before the Walker-Bonney singles decided the grand final.
Riverside and the Newstead Tennis & Squash Centre, which hosted all finals over three nights, snared all trophies in the lower grades.
Tennis North president Craig Boyce said the finals were a "mini-festival of tennis" that attracted many spectators and thanked the NTSC for providing such an ideal venue.
SPRING ROSTER GRAND FINALS
- A grade: Riverside Ramjets 3-26 d Trevallyn Titans 3-24.
- Division A doubles: Riverside Pink 2-16 (Dennis Harding, Ged Parsons) d Riverside Red (Andrew Roberts, Arwen Koesmapahlawan) 1-14.
- Division B singles and doubles: NTSC Blue 5-30 (Mark Munnings, Jack Bull, Samuel Woodley) d NTSC White (Elliot Nobes, Al Cutler, David Pedley) 1-21.
- Division B doubles: NTSC Orange (Al Cutler, Jason Donati) d Riverside (Jeff Garner, Tim Parsell) 6-4, 6-5.
- Division C grand final: Riverside C Purple (Danica Holloway, Bianca Holloway) d NTSC Gold (Jodie Farquhar, Jason Harriss) 6-1, 6-0.
