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More College Tennis Success

October 07, 2013 at 11:22 AM

Year 12 student Paige Hourigan has added another 2 tennis titles to an already impressive list of achievements. Last week she won the ITF Waikato-Bays 18u Championships Girls’ Singles and Doubles titles. This week in the 2013 Auckland ITF Indoor Championships she has carried on unbeaten winning the Championships Girls’ Singles title and teamed up again to win the Championships Girls’ Doubles title with Kelly Drew.

Paige had to play 3 girls from Saint Kentigern College on her way to winning, with wins over Lana Popovich, CT Ampornachariya and Kelly Drew in the Girls’ Singles Final. Kelly had a tough draw to get to the final but overcame the 2nd seed in 3 sets and then the 5th seed in the semi-final in 3 sets to set up a clash with Paige. It was a close first set with Kelly making Paige work hard for her points but couldn’t hold off the power of Paige who won 6-4 6-2. In the Girls’ Doubles Final, Paige and Kelly started slowly against the top seeds and lost the first set – but fired up in the 2nd set and turned the game around to win 10-4 in the tiebreaker 3rd set.

Last week Trent Smith made 2 finals in Hamilton but this week it was the turn of top seed William Matheson. In the boys’ singles William showed great form on his way to the final and after being down 5-2 in the first set settled in to his work and won the Boys’ Singles Final in 2 straight sets against Rhett Purcell. William then teamed up with Rhett to win the Boys’ Doubles Final in straight sets.

Finals results for the last two weeks:

Paige Hourigan – Year 12
ITF Waikato-Bays 18u Championships Girls’ Singles Winner
ITF Waikato-Bays 18u Championships Girls’ Doubles Winner
Auckland ITF Indoor Championships Girls’ Singles Winner
Auckland ITF Indoor Championships Girls’ Doubles Winner

Kelly Drew – Year 12
ITF Waikato-Bays 18u Championships Girls’ Doubles Winner
Auckland ITF Indoor Championships Girls’ Singles Runner Up
Auckland ITF Indoor Championships Girls’ Doubles Winner

William Matheson – Year 12
Auckland ITF Indoor Championships Boys’ Singles Winner
Auckland ITF Indoor Championships Boys’ Doubles Winner

Trent Smith – Year 12
ITF Waikato-Bays 18u Championships Boys’ Singles Runner Up
ITF Waikato-Bays 18u Championships Boys’ Doubles Runner Up

Edward Stoica – Year 12
ITF Waikato-Bays 18u Championships Doubles Runner Up

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