Tennis: Evergreen Glenny signs off with title double

Kay Glenny (left) with Victoria Kerrison and Margaret Hall.

Hawke's Bay's multiple national tennis champion Kay Glenny got the perfect farewell yesterday.

Glenny captured the 70-plus singles title at the New Zealand Veterans Championships in Napier after completing an unbeaten run in her round robin and, with lower Northland's Kaye Jackson, won the doubles title in the same age group with an unbeaten run. An arthritic shoulder has forced Glenny, who represented New Zealand at five World Teams Events and is also a former New Zealand Masters squash rep, to retire from racket sports.

"I'm still able to continue golf because the arm doesn't go above the shoulder," said the 18-handicapper.

Jackson, who also won the national 70-plus squash title last year, could match Glenny's feat of two titles this week if she and Western Bay of Plenty's Dave Hawkes win their 70-plus mixed doubles final today.

Hawke's Bay's former New Zealand Davis Cup representative Steve Harley and world-ranked Cantabrian Peter Hampton beat world-ranked US-based Aucklander and lower Northland's Paul White in a three-set final of the 55-plus men's doubles yesterday.

Havelock North's Cathy Clarkson will play top-seeded Aucklander Marion Mills in today's 60-plus singles final. Unseeded Clarkson beat the second seed yesterday after beating the fourth seed the previous day.

Greendale's Simon Cowan and Ian Morley were beaten in their 65-plus doubles semifinal and Cowan was also eliminated in the semifinals of the singles.

Hawkes won his 40th national title after a marathon three-set 70-plus singles final against Nelson's Steve Molnar.