Top play at summer series

THE Jekyll & Hyde Summer Series got off to an exciting start at the Beacon Bay Tennis Club during the week.

Six teams from different clubs are contesting the series in which the emphasis is on quick, short, sharp encounters. Teams consist of two men and two women whose total age must exceed 140 years.

The Alfa team of Tony and Joy Brits, Lester Barkhuyzen and Kim O’Leary were involved in two encounters.

They opened their account by beating the game Stirling team of Mike Kapp, Carol Oberem and the husband-andwife combination of Torben and Dorte Reinke 32-22.

Alfa then gave the holders of the trophy, Beacon Bay A, a run for their money with two of the matches finishing on a tiebreaker at 8-7. Jeremy Drake was involved in both of these. He and Willie Marais fought a battle royal against Brits and Barkhuyzen and then he and Arlien Myburgh shoe-horned their way past Barkhuyzen and Joy Brits. The final tally was 32-25.

The Beacon Bay A side proved too experienced for the game Destiny quartet of Riagan Smith, Thabo Gwegwana, Thandazile Khwatshube and Lorna Solomon, going through 32-20.

The most closely contested tie was that in which Beacon Bay B gained a 3126 victory over Old Boys.

Shaun Mathie and Lindsay Jakobi of Old Boys registered an 8-7 win over Rob Bell and Antonio de Sousa where the very last point decided the issue. Bell turned the tables on Mathie when he and Cherie Biggs squeezed past the Mathie/Jenny Milne duo at 8-7.

In the women’s doubles the Hanlie Dodd/Biggs pairing defeated Milne and the ever-so steady Lorna Grotjohn 8-6. The series continues at the Beacon Bay club on Tuesday evening at 5.30pm.