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Assuria Invitational Tennis Classic…Adams, Lowden to clash for Men’s over 35 title
Top seed Carlos Adams trounced Rudy Grant 6-1, 6-0 to set up a mouth watering clash against Berbician Godfrey Lowden for the Men’s Over 35 singles title in the Assuria Invitational Tennis Classic.
Playing the lone match on Monday evening at Harry Panday’s place Bel Air Park, Adams defeated Grant on the back of his superior play in cold, damp conditions.
Leyland Leacock
The top seed started strongly by holding his serve at 40-15 to open the first set of the match, before he subsequently broke Grant to lead 2-0. Adams held serve in the third game and followed that up with a service break in the fourth to take a 4-0 lead.
Grant began to place his serves in strategic areas of the service box to hold at love, at which point he began feeling comfortable on the courts heading into the change over. That feeling though was short lived as he simply could not handle Adams’ powerful ground strokes and the latter duly wrapped up the set.
That performance was followed by an even more devastating display that the error prone Grant had no answer for as he failed to win a single game, handing Adams a straight sets triumph.
The loss meant that Grant dropped to a 1-2 win/loss record in the round robin competition, while Adams 3-0 remains on course for a titanic clash against second seed Godfrey Lowden on Sunday.
In other action, #3 seed in the Men’s Singles group Leyland Leacock needed two tie break sets to get past Daniel Lopes.
Lopes played aggressive from the onset to force the tie break which remained even up until the fifth game. That was the most critical point in the opening set tie break, which the third seed eked to inch ahead 3-2 and take it (7-5).
The same strategy was applied by Lopes in the second only for him to lose that breaker (7-2), a vast improvement for the younger player from his three previous matches.
The battle for supremacy in the Men’s Singles is between top two seeds and best friends Anthony Downes and Jeremy Miller who will square off for the title.
The Women segment swings into action on Saturday, at the Diamond Hardcourt.
Carlos Adams
Meanwhile, former Pegasus Open Ladies champion Carol Humphrey has formally accepted the invitation to play in the tournament at the last moment.
Her acceptance was received by the tournament committee, which now brings the ladies draw to four players.
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