It was a night of upsets, a bit of controversy and top class action when the National Sports Council National Inter Parish Road Tennis Tournament’ quarter finals were staged at Road View, St. Peter on Wednesday night.
A large crowd dotted with a number of fascinated visitors ringed the court as the semifinalists in the veterans and seniors were determined to make the next stop at Vauxhall Primary School’s court on Saturday.
A large group of the partisan supporters felt that the home court would have helped their cause after Winfield Trotman of St. Peter had started the upsets by taking out Edwin Ward of St. Thomas punctuating the results with a sow, 21-15, 21-8. However, the meticulous Ricky Hoyte pulled the contest back for St. Thomas by disposing of Andrew Reece, 21-13, 21-11.
That result caused the first controversy with the organisers then making a draw of the four names representing the two parishes to contest a one set tie-breaker. The pundits were arguing that three teams should have been representing the parishes and failing that the teams should be the deciders as to who should represent them in the tie breaker.
The latter point was borne out throughout the night as the three tie breakers saw the weaker competitors from the parishes involved having to represent. Hoyte was drawn to meet Reece in the tie breaker winning, 21-13, to advance St. Thomas.
