Showing tremendous class with matching sartorial splendour, 17-year-old Alexandra schoolboy Azarie Clarke came from a game down to win the Harris Paints Electing A Champion Junior Road Tennis Tournament 15-17 boys’ title for the third time in succession.
Playing in front of a large crowd of spectators, including Luke Ticknor, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Harris Paints, and about a dozen members of the “Harris Family”, Clarke defeated his arch rival Raheem Nurse 16-21, 21-7, 21-16.
Nurse, who bettered Clarke in two Sandy Lane tournaments but went down in his Grantley Adams Memorial School hall in the secondary schools’ competition to Clarke, seemed keen to deny his opponent a three-peat.
With both players displaying solid backhands, awesome footwork and deadly forehand smashes, Nurse surged from 1-4 in the opener to take charge 14-10 to draw first blood at 21-16. (KB)
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