Brown's Bay's Andrew Ramsey and Parnell's Lance Pope upset the No1 pairing of Whangarei's Jackson Bodle and Maraetai's Nick Burnie in the final of the men's doubles at the Janet Agnew doubles tournament.
The three-set final was a thriller from start to finish, with Ramsey and Pope winning 7-6, 3-6, 7-6
in an epic match that didn't finish until 8pm on Saturday.
The consistency of the more established duo won through in the end but it wasn't for a lack of trying by Bodle and his partner. It was a mixed homecoming for Bodle, who now lives in Auckland.
"I've lost both my big matches in third-set tiebreakers so I don't have a whole lot of positives to mention about playing but it's been a great tournament and it's good to be playing back at home again," he said.
The final couldn't have been closer and Bodle said if a few pivotal points had gone their way it would have been a different result.
Bodle and partner Janet Agnew, the top seeds, were knocked out in the semifinals of the A Grade mixed doubles on Sunday by Kerikeri's Mike Clapham and Northcote's Paula Stubbing, who went on to win the final.
They beat Springfield's Shelley Yeates and Kaiwaka's Innes Anderson 6-4, 6-1.
The B Grade mixed doubles was an all-Whangarei affair with Shane and Vikki Hich beating Shane Myocevich and Cheryl Baker 6-1, 6-4.
In the women's A grade doubles final on Saturday, the Whangarei mother-and-daughter combination of Raewyn Heywood and Yeates comfortably beat Warkworth's Leonie Meredith and Katrina Kayall 6-2, 6-2.
The Ladies B Grade final was won by Gaby Sykes and Alana Torrie 6-0, 6-3 over Carolina Kitchen and Annie Green.
The men's B Grade final was won by brothers Lance and Karl Hick, who beat Peter Wordley and Paddy Keogh 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.
