Halfway into the Bega Thursday night tennis competition and the positions on the ladder are starting to formulate. Jeff Kelly (having the bye helped) is now out in first place followed closely by Luke Keft.
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Equal on third are Kyle Campbell, Samuel Johnston and Corey Leahy. All teams had a win so there was no shift in their positions.
Keft was pushed back in a fight for the leaderboard by Kyle Campbell. Great games to watch. One team would win 6-1, or 6-0, only to lose the next 6-1 or 6-2, until Emma and partner Luke McPherson changed the tables by winning 6-2. The end result Campbell 22 and Keft 19.
One would have thought David Neyles' team had it in the bag by wining four sets, which included two tie-breakers, but it was in the final game of the night when he was beaten by Ryley Campbell's team 6-nil! The result was very close 27 to 26 games, Campbell the victor.
Another close result on the night was between Samuel Johnston and John O'Connor winning three sets each, but it was the tie-breaker that again saw O'Connor's team go down in a repeat of last week – 28-27.
The Willington family team tried very hard when they played Wayne Northey's team. Unlucky to go down in the tie-breaker and only winning two sets, saw the final score close. Northey 29 and Willington 25.
Continuing their up and down progress, Matt Kimber's team played a fill in Corey Leahy's team. With strong substitutes, Leahy convincingly won five sets against Kimber, who only won one set 6-2 when the young cousins played against their opponents. The result at the end of the night was Leahy 32 games to Kimber's 18.
Next week Northey has the bye.
