Hawke's Bay Tennis officials were last night toasting an international doubles title won by the province's top man Rob Reynolds.
Reynolds and Taranaki's Ajeet Rai won yesterday's final of the 18 and under Auckland ITF Indoor Championships with a 6-1, 6-2 win against Chinese Taipei's Shao-Min Ko and Hong Kong's Arthur Chau.
"This is a huge result for Rob when you consider the calibre of the international field," Hawke's Bay Tennis chairman John Penny said referring to the fact the tournament played at the Scarbro Tennis Centre in Glen Innes also attracted players from Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
For 18-year-old Reynolds it was a case of sweet revenge as Ko had beaten him 6-3, 6-3 in their singles semifinal the previous day. Reynolds' 15-year-old brother Finn was beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Canterbury's Conner Heap in his semifinal.
Heap beat Ko 6-4, 6-2 in the final. When the Reynolds brothers, who play out of the Hawke's Bay Lawn club, won their quarter-finals they became the first Hawke's Bay players to qualify for the semifinals of an International Tennis Federation event at the same time.