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Pegasus Open Tennis…Downes denies Miller triple title; Humphrey turns back Ramdyan
The curtains came down on this year’s edition of the Pegasus Open Tennis championships with two exciting finals on Wednesday night where Anthony Downes and Carol Humphrey emerged as the winners in the Men’s and Ladies singles categories.
The Men’s final served off with Miller immediately securing a service break despite Downes
Carol Humphrey
hitting several first serves to go ahead 1-0 .Miller then consolidated by holding serve to lead 2-0. Recognising the need to end points quickly due to the injury he was carrying into the match, Downes successfully employed a serve and volley tactic in the next game to easily hold serve. Both players then held serve until 3-2 before Miller had his serve broken after some excellent rallies from the baseline.
Downes persisted with coming to the net, resulting in additional pressure on Miller to hit the passing shot. After tying up the match at 3 all, Downes again held serve by approaching the net at every opportunity.
The match continued to be of the highest quality as both players dug deep with Downes saving a break point to go ahead 5-4. In the longest game of the set, Miller then conceded a break to lose the set when Downes hit a deft drop volley after Miller had chased down three near winners.
Miller’s game dropped noticeably in the second set as he seemingly went into his shell on the big forehands and first serves he hit in the first set.
It was all Downes from that point after he took a 3-0 lead as he relentlessly attacked the net putting away volleys. Miller briefly fought back after he hit some amazing passing shots to close within 3-2.
Downes however kept his composure to break back and closed off the set 6-3 to capture his first Men’s title at the Pegasus Open. Miller however ended with two titles after he captured both the Men’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles titles when he teamed up with Jason Andrews and Shelly Ramdyhan respectively.
In the earlier match Carol Humphrey made her experience count as she turned back the challenge of 14 year-old Nicola Ramdyhan successfully in their three set encounter to claim yet another Ladies Open title.
Ramdyhan started all guns blazing as she outplayed Humphrey in the first set 6-2 with solid ground strokes. The veteran Humphrey however rebounded nicely in the second set as she adjusted her game and negated Ramdyhan’s game by returning the favor 6-2 in the second set.
Anthony Downes
In the final set Ramdyhan struggled to play her own game and instead tried to stay in the points against Humphrey who moved her around the court before going for winners.
Despite a brief fight back which saw her hitting some winners, Ramdyhan faltered and lost 6-3 to give Humphrey another title. The presentation was held on Wednesday night.
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