CRAIGHELEN Tennis Club’s senior championship titles will be decided this Saturday, September 4, after some wonderful summer weather graced the tournament’s knockout stages.

The men’s singles final will be between Harry Gould and Ian Fisher, who beat Elliot Fisher and Tam Morris respectively in the semi-finals.

Harry will also play in the men’s veteran singles final against Gerry Black.

The ladies’ semi-finals had yet to be decided as this report was written, with Anna Scullion facing Sarah Colman in one last four tie and Sue Black playing Susan Bell in the other, the quartet having beaten Ashley Bolton, Amanda Byles, Amy Parry and Laura McConnell respectively in the quarter-finals.

Coincidentally the ladies’ doubles final will see each of the singles last four protagonists on the same side of the net, with Anna and Sarah facing Susan and Sue.

Anna and Sarah beat Anna Short and Louise Rusk and then Sandra Juster and Jackie Morris to seal their place in the final, while Sue and Susan defeated Eileen Drummond and Lesley McGowan and then Laura McConnell and Amy Parry.

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The men’s doubles final will see Doug Green and Gerry Black face Scott Weir and Kieran Martin; Gerry and Doug saw off first Jim McGowan and Tam Morris, and then Greig and Nick Goodings, while Scott and Kieran proved too strong for Ian McCall and Arthur Connolly.

The mixed doubles ties so far have seen Amanda Byes and Kieran Martin beat Jackie and Tam Morris, Lesley and Jim McGowan beat Barbara McCall and Arthur Connolly, and Lisa Fowler and Ian Fisher beat Ashley Bolton and Ian McCall, though Lisa and Ian then lost to Amy Parry and Harry Gould.

In the ladies’ pot luck doubles, with partners drawn from a hat, Laura McConnell and Louise Rusk beat Sue Black and Samantha Jones, Sandra Juster and Lyndsey Cromar beat Amanda Byles and Fiona Thomson, and Eileen Drummond and Amy Parry beat Anna Short and Lisa Fowler.

Eileen and Amy then went on to beat Sandra and Lyndsey in a match which swung one way and then the other several times.

In the mixed pot luck doubles, played with a handicap system, Amanda Byles and Arthur Connolly beat Kieran Martin and Tam Morris, Louise Rusk and Lyndsey Cromar beat Jackie Morris and Anna Short, and Greig Goodings and Ian McCall beat Laura McConnell and Lisa Fowler.