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Trophy Stall Doubles Tennis Tournament…Andrews / Miller win Men’s Doubles crown
Curtains for the Trophy Stall Doubles tennis tournament came down with a highly entertaining and competitive Men’s final where top seeds Jeremy Miller/Jason Andrews edged out the team of Sandeep Chand/Godfrey Lowden 6-4, 7-5 in a match lasting just over two hours.
The respective winners after the conclusion of the Trophy Stall Tennis tourney display their prizes after the presentation.
All the players were up to the occasion for the final and produced winners and held their service games until 5-4 when Chand was broken whilst serving to stay in the set as some missed volleys and untimely double faults helped Andrews/Miller to take the set.
The second set saw a much higher intensity with service return winners from both sides making it difficult to hold serve and the teams traded service breaks throughout the set as they battled to seize the initiative. When Miller survived two break points on his second service game in the set it prevented Lowden/Chand from taking a decisive lead, Lowden then held serve and Andrews then produced a big service game of his own after being broken twice before in the set to give his team a 6-5 lead.
Miller/Andrews went for broke on the next service game by Chand and secured a 0-40 lead and three match points, two of which were saved on service winners before a double fault that clipped the net cord secured a well deserved win for the top seeds.
The tournament lasted for seven days and attracted 66 participants. Other winners in the tournament were Jeremy Miller/Shelly Ramdyhan, who won the Mixed Doubles over Godfrey Lowden and Shawna Gentle and Dick and Joyce Wesenhagen, who prevailed over Irzad Zamal and Sunesh Maikoo in the Novice Doubles.
In comments at the presentation ceremony, Vice President of the Guyana Tennis Association Grace McCalman thanked Trophy Stall for being a friend of tennis and outlined the many challenges faced with developing the sport locally. She implored all the participants to support the game not just by playing, but by bringing out new players as well as encouraging persons to watch the many matches being played.
Top seeds Jeremy Miller and Jason Andrews show off their trophies after winning the Men’s Doubles title.
She pointed out that a Novice category has specifically been introduced in all the GLTA tournaments to allow for greater participation from players who may not be playing the sport long enough to enter the main categories and was pleased that some 14 teams were in this category.
The next event on the tennis calendar is the Nigel’s Supermarket Junior Series which will start shortly.
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