Several young players have had a series of tournaments at national or international level, as well as regional events at Queenstown, Wanaka and Oamaru in recent weeks and they were able to post impressive scores when club play began again.
Georgia Hume (Eastern Harbour) had strong efforts at nationals and ITF junior tournaments and, although pushed at times by a hard-hitting Jessie Stevenson (Balmacewen), was too consistent, winning 6-1, 6-3. Hume had solid backup from the ever-reliable Debbie Cartwright as Harbour won all three in straight sets.
Mornington-Roslyn beat St Clair 2-1 in the other women's tie with Lauren Fowler gaining the only point for the seasiders with a 6-2, 6-4 win against Heike Cebulla-Elder.
McGlashan, through Oliver and Carlos Reid, were too solid in singles for Balmacewen, taking easy wins over James Bourne and Rob McGavin respectively. Reid had a strong nationals, upsetting higher seeded players before losing to the top seed, and the 14-year-old took all the points that mattered against veteran McGavin in a match that looked closer than 6-1, 6-3.
Balmacewen got within a point of winning the doubles against Henry Caird and Andrew Booth before losing the final tiebreak 9-11.
Eastern Harbour won all three against Mornington-Roslyn but Ryan Eggers was pushed to a third-set tiebreak before outlasting Tom Beamish.
