There was three times the delight for Daniel Nash and Kendra Fitzpatrick as the pair took a clean sweep of the division one titles at The Courts@East Club Championships.
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Both players won their respective single titles before moving onto the doubles where Nash won the men's doubles alongside Benji Stacey while Fitzpatrick teamed up with Ava Coleman to win the women's doubles.
The champions then teamed up to win the mixed doubles crown to complete the trifecta.
Fitzpatrick has been playing the game for about five years and competitions for just three.
The weekend was one of the rare occasions the 14-year-old played in an open competition and she excelled.
"It's pretty incredible, I still cant quite believe it. It was very hard, very competitive," Fitzpatrick, who also won the 16s singles and doubles titles, said.
It was just the second year the The Courts@East Club Championships have been held, and the first time there'd been open women's event, North West Tennis Academy's Jarrod Campbell said.
Nash took out the singles title in 2019 as well to make it two from two.
However, it was the men's doubles title that was one to savour for Nash after missing out the year before.
In 2019, Nash combined with Tom Fitzgerald in the doubles but had to find a new partner this year with Fitzgerald away on Central North cricket duties.
"We actually lost in a three-way tie last year," he said.
And early rounds were similar this year.
"The doubles was a pretty good win. There was actually a three-way tie in the pool stage," Nash said of his win alongside Stacey.
"We played Zach Adams and Josh Frost who won last year."
Campbell said the Nash and Fitzpatrick's efforts were the "big achievements of the weekend" which saw 93 players compete from under eights through to open.
"It was a fantastic weekend of tennis," Campbell said.
"The division one events were of an extremely high standard and division two was well supported with great camaraderie among the competitors."
Campbell said the high standard of play continued right through to the juniors.
"We're extremely excited about the potential of so many of those [young] players and what they can become," Campbell said.
"At this stage it's about fun and enjoyment and learning to play the shots...but there's some fantastic players in the 8s, 9s and 10s."
RESULTS
Div 1 men's singles winner - Daniel Nash. Runner up - Zach Adams.
Div 1 women's singles winner - Kendra Fitzpatrick. Runner up - Grace Carey.
Div 1 Men's doubles winners - Daniel Nash & Benji Stacey. Runners up - Zach Adams & Josh Frost.
Div 1 women's doubles winners - Kendra Fitzpatrick & Ava Coleman. Runners up - Grainne Shepherd & Olivia Bissell.
Div 1 mixed doubles winners - Daniel Nash & Kendra Fitzpatrick. Runners up - Zach Adams & Jane Ervine.
Div 2 men's singles winner - Justin Watts. Runner up - Phil Garland.
Div 2 men's doubles winners - Justin Watts & Phil Garland. Runners up - Philip & Simon Mattheus.
Div 2 women's doubles winners - Wendy Stacey & Simone Rudder. Runners up - Gay Clery & Jule George.
16/U boys singles winner - Ryan Simpfendorfer. Runner up - Sebastian Lobban.
16/U boys doubles winners - Connor Guest & Seamus Shepherd. Runners up - Ethan Richards & Sebastian Lobban.
16/U girls singles winner - Kendra Fitzpatrick. Runner up - Grainne Shepherd.
16/U girls doubles winners - Kendra Fitzpatrick & Ava Coleman. Runners up - Grainne Shepherd & Olivia Bissell.
14/U boys singles winner - Hayden Miller. Runner up - Albert Smyth.
14/U boys doubles winners - Albert Smyth & Tom Horan-Rosa. Runners up - Sebastian Burrows & Hayden Miller.
14/U girls singles winner - Jessica Ballard. Runner up - Sophia Crowley.
14/U girls doubles winners - Jessica Ballard & Sophia Crowley.
12/U boys singles winner - William Penberthy. Runner up - Mathew Keen.
12/U boys doubles winners - William Penberthy & Dash Urquart. Runners up - Hamish Pengilley & Darcy Bissell.
12/U girls singles winner - Isabella Tonkin. Runner up - Olivia Fitzpatrick.
12/U girls doubles winners - Olivia Fitzpatrick & Philipa Mattheus. Runners up - Georgia Scanlon & Isabella Tonkin.
10/U boy-girl singles winner - Martin Smyth. Runner up - Max Judd.
10/U boy-girl doubles winners - Curtis Parkinson & Martin Smyth. Runners up - Max Judd & Lachlan Penberthy.
9/U boy-girl singles winner - Edward Pengilley. Runner up - Brooklyn Le Brocq.
9/U boy-girl doubles winners - Edward Pengilley & Brooklyn Le Brocq. Runners up - Zac Parkinson, Oscar Nicholson & Charlie Condrick.
8/U boy-girl singles winner - Everly Clarke. Runner up - Finn Hagley.
8/U boy-girl doubles winners - Winsome Urquart & Dylan Cayley. Runners up - Isabelle Scanlon & Harry Judd.
Ben Jaffrey
Ben is a content curator and journalist for The Land. He has been with ACM since 2015 and first worked at The Area News and then at the Northern Daily Leader. Ben first joined ACM Agri as a digital journalist for all seven agricultural mastheads in 2022 before shifting to The Land full-time in 2023.
Ben is a content curator and journalist for The Land. He has been with ACM since 2015 and first worked at The Area News and then at the Northern Daily Leader. Ben first joined ACM Agri as a digital journalist for all seven agricultural mastheads in 2022 before shifting to The Land full-time in 2023.
