The second Win a Wildcard event was held at Mpowerdome on Sunday the 19th of October. 28 players competed across 2 grades for their chance to Win a Wildcard into the 2015 Australian Open Mixed doubles.
Play got under way with the Set (B Grade) event. Relja Cvjeticanin and Marlene Reichel defeated Mark Ferris and Carol Ruster in a closely contested final winning in a tiebreak 4-3. Cvjeticanin and Reichel will now join Asheek Khan and Penny Phung as the ACT Winners who will play at December showdown in Melbourne for the chance to take out the B grade title.
The match (A grade) players then hit the courts for a great afternoon of tennis in warm conditions. In the semi finals both matches came down to the wire with Tarlina Tipungwuti and Ben Sterland defeating Sam Briggs and Josh Fraser 4-3, while Nicole Morris and Troy Smith defeated Gabby Beaumont and Nelson Parker also in a tiebreak.
With the chance to head to Melbourne to compete for a wildcard into the 2015 Australian Open Mixed doubles on the line, the final was a hotly contested match with some big hitting on display. It was the combination of Morris and Smith who came out on top with a 4-2 victory. Smith and Morris were both very excited to win the event, with Smith saying “the competition in Melbourne will be fierce, but with the Fast 4 format, anything can happen”.
Congratulations to all players who participated in the event. A special thank you to the staff at Mpowerdome for hosting the event.
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