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Jason Andrews and Anthony Downes crowned Doubles winners
Men’s Doubles Champions:
from right Anthony Downes and Jason Andrews.
The curtains came down on the final double matches of the GBTI Open 2015. Unfortunately, the finals of the Men’s Doubles came to an anticlimax as a result of the tardiness of Nicolas Fenty and Leyland Leacock for their match. The officials took precedence by giving a walkover Jason Andrews and Anthony Downes. Despite Downes’ injury, he noted that he was looking forward to a great match against the No. 2 seeds. Andrews echoed the sentiment and added, “I am disappointed because playing in a championship you want to have a match point and lift the trophy the right way. We take solace in the fact that we had great matches to reach the finals and being seeded as No. 1. I favour the precedence set by the tournament official which would help lift the discipline of the game.”
Andrews started playing in Berbice at the age of 18 with Coach Carol Humphrey who is known as Aunty Carol around the tennis court. The beauty of tennis is that you are never too old to learn or play the sport. While a career in the sport usually decline around 29 years old, one can play recreationally into their 60s and beyond. From then to now Andrews has now attained his 13th major doubles title. This is the 6th straight Men’s Doubles title at the GBTI Open. The former 3 titles came with his doubles partner, Jeremy Miller. Miller migrated leaving Andrews without a partner and a natural partnership developed with Anthony Downes since the two were on the junior team together and fellow hitting partners.
Mixed Doubles Champions:
Aretta Dey and Daniel Lopes.
The pair became the Bryan brothers of Guyana as they dominated the double scene for tennis with a playing style that complemented each other game. The team retained their title and their ranking as No.1.
The young Aretta Dey and Daniel Lopes prevailed against the veterans, Carol Humphrey and Godfrey Lowden, in the mixed doubles. Dey and Lopes have come through the ranks of the National Squad and found their passion for the sport at the P&P Insurance Broker Tennis Camp. The two were in unison although they were playing as a unit for the first time. There was little nervousness at the beginning since they grew up watching the veterans and knowing their capabilities but years of experience representing Guyana on the regional stage helped kept nerves at bay.
Lopes pointed out, “The experience as a pair is something I feared but I had to treat it and approach it like any other match and I thought we played really well,” and Dey held a strong game as well and is happy for the win, “We stuck to our game plan of keeping the rallies going and force the opponents to make the errors.” Dey and Lopes got a good start in the first set with a 5/0 lead and were on the verge of giving a bagel but Humphrey and Lowden were able to hold for a game but lost the set at 6/1. A surge of energy came in the second set as the veterans played with all their gusto but it was unequivocal that the level of play by the young ones were elevated as they took the second set 6/2.
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