Tennis: Drewry victorious in latest FAST4 tournament

16 players compete in second of three in series in Douglas

Report by Paul Jarvis:

The second of three Men’s UK Tour FAST4 Tournaments took place on Saturday 10 June being hosted by Douglas Lawn Tennis Club on their four artificial clay courts.  

With a full draw of 16 players including one from the UK, 32 matches were scheduled to play across four courts starting at 9am.  With all players scheduled to play four matches in the day there was continuous play across all the courts until almost 5pm.

With a compass draw, the overall winner would be the player who wins all four matches, there could only be one.  

In the final Sean Drewry (seeded 1) took on Ron Roopesh (seeded 3), a visitor to the Island for the day who flew in at 8am to play in the tournament - Sean was too strong for Ron winning 4/1, 4/1.  Ron therefore winning three of his four matches on the day and finishing runner-up.

Also winning three of his four matches was the winner of the 3rd/4th play off Jos Woolford who defeated Neri Gricevicius  0/4, 4/0 [10-2] in a third set Champions tie-break, Jos therefore only losing his semi-final.  

Another winner of three of his four matches was Steph Joyce who won the battle of the losing quarter finalists.  Steph then winning his next two matches and defeating Chris Mash in their match 3/4[7-5], 4/3[8-6], [11-9] after two tie-break sets and a Champions tie-beak.

There was one other winner of three matches on the day which was Herman Oberholzer who having lost his first round match went on to win his next three and the plate competition beating Leno Relayson in the final 1/4, 4/1, [10-4] in another Champions tie-break.

Overall, a great day of tennis with the average match time 39 minutes across the day meaning just under 21 hours of singles tennis was played and enjoyed on the day.