The open men’s and women’s singles champions from Albury’s Margaret Court Cup have backed up their performances by claiming the same events at the Victorian Junior Grasscourt Championships in Wodonga.
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Central Coast’s Troy Lockwood and Sydney’s Anne-Marie Medcalf made it back-to-back wins on the Border’s grass courts with impressive performances at Wodonga Tennis Centre on Saturday.
Medcalf met top seed Alana Parnaby in a replay of the Margaret Court Cup final and again lifted the trophy.
She saluted 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 in a hard-fought contest.
Medcalf booked her place in the final with a straight-sets win against Sarina King, 6-1, 6-4, while Parnaby prevailed 6-3, 6-4 over Linda Huang.
Lockwood had a walkover against Daniel Dossetor to be crowned the open men’s singles champion whilst leading 5-0 in the first set.
Dossetor won a mammoth semi-final against veteran Patrick Flynn, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3), to progress to the decider, but succumbed to injury against Lockwood.
Border rising stars Rory Parnell (under 12s boys singles) and Ella Brown (under 12s girls singles) finished their respective events in fourth place after both reaching the semi-finals.
When you’ve got two girls in the top 50 in the country playing against each other locally, it’s always going to be a good sight.
- Tournament director Michael Robin
Tournament director Michael Robin was delighted with the response and the quality of tennis on display.
“When you’ve got two girls in the top 50 in the country playing against each other locally, it’s always going to be a good final,” Robin said.
“And if you weren’t in the top 200 in the juniors, you weren’t really going to make the main draw, so that’s a really good sign for local tennis.
“The record numbers were obviously really good, it’s a sign everyone is heading in the right direction.
“The girls numbers were up pretty significantly in the junior age groups and that’s a really good sign.
“I’m not sure if it was a knock-on effect from the Inter-Regional Country Championships here last week.
“It’s been going for that long and we’ve pretty much got it down pat based on our numbers, weather is the only thing that really comes into play that makes us do things differently.”
Robin said the travelling groups at both the Wodonga and Albury tournaments went back extremely satisfied with their two weeks on the Border.
“We speak to them before they go and they couldn’t suggest anything to do differently next year, so across the board it was very successful,” he said.
“The whole event ran really smoothly and finished when we expected to.”
Beau Greenway
I like to tell the stories of great people in our communities. Email: beau.greenway@austcommunitymedia.com.au
I like to tell the stories of great people in our communities. Email: beau.greenway@austcommunitymedia.com.au
