WILLASTON and Xavier Green played a terrific match in this past weekend’s Gawler and District Tennis Association division 1/2 meeting at Essex Park, drawing at eight sets each.
With both sides sitting in the top four, a close battle was expected, and it ended up being decided by total games won, with Xavier Green prevailing 76-60.
Xavier’s Samuel Walton played a big part in the final games margin, taking his singles set 6-1, his men’s doubles 6-2 with Roger Buckby, and only going down in his mixed doubles set by one game, 6-7.
Lucas Baker performed strongly for Willaston, winning his singles set over Buckby 6-1 and taking his mixed doubles with Angela Edwards 6-2.
Second-placed Xavier White had a solid win against Two Wells, taking 11 of the 16 sets on offer, with Jayne Polito having a near perfect day for Xavier.
Polito won her singles set 6-0, before combining with Michael Oermann to win their mixed doubles matchup 6-1.
Polito wasn’t alone on the ladies side of things, where Xavier has often excelled, as teammates Indi-arna Morris and Ella Thorne also took their singles sets 6-0, with Karen Fisher rounding out the Xavier ladies singles sweep with a 6-2 result.
Two Wells was much stronger on the men’s side, as Dale McDonald, Ward Williams and Andy Rowe all won their singles sets, as well as the men’s doubles.
In division three, Two Wells moved into third place at the expense of Willaston United, which remains winless after 10 rounds.
Lyndoch was handed its first loss of the season against fourth-placed Trinity Old Scholars Blue with a 5-11 scoreline.
Ellen Frost and Chris Hancock both won all three of their sets, including a doubles match together, to propel the TOSers to their best win of the season.
Rounding out the action, second-placed Willaston scraped past second-to-last Xavier nine sets to seven.
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