Masterton and Pirinoa serve up inter-club victories

Masterton and Pirinoa were comfortable winners of regional one inter-club tennis matches played in Wairarapa on Saturday.
Their clean sweep of the men's doubles paved the way for Masterton's 6-3 win over Opaki. Luke Atkinson, Matt Bunny and Glenn Bunny all won in straight sets but Steve Hurley was taken to three sets before securing his victory.
Opaki picked up both women's singles thanks to Katie Wyeth and Abby Hill and Wyeth also combined with Brett Dymond to win her mixed doubles.
Pirinoa simply had too much depth for Carterton in their 7-2 success. They won five of the six singles through Geoff Janse, Mike Jackson, Andy Darling, Natasha Robinson and Sissy Pickering and dropped just one of the three doubles.
Matt Spooner was the only saving grace for Carterton, beating Tim Pickering in a singles which went to three sets and combining with Dushka Warren for a mixed doubles victory.
Match details:
Masterton beat Opaki 6-3. Scores, Masterton names first:
Men's singles: Luke Atkinson beat Brett Dymond 6-1, 6-1; Matt Bunny beat Matt Stewart 7-5, 6-0; Steve Hurley beat C. Davidson 6-2, 6-7, 6-3; Glenn Bunny beat S. Everitt 6-2, 6-3.
Women's singles: Brooke Candy lost to Katie Wyeth 0-6, 2-6; Charlotte Mossman lost to Abby Hill 1-6, 0-6.
Men's doubles: Atkinson and M. Bunny beat Stewart and Everitt 1-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Mixed doubles: Hurley and Candy lost to Dymond and Wyeth 2-6, 2-6; G. Bunny and Mossman beat Davidson and Hill 6-1, 5-7, 6-3.
Pirinoa beat Carterton 7-2. Scores, Pirinoa names first:
Men's singles: Tim Pickering lost to Matt Spooner 7-6, 1-6, 4-6; Geoff Janse beat Liam McMenamin 6-3, 6-0; Mike Jackson beat Tim Dudson 4-6, 6-0, 6-1; Andy Darling beat David Wright 6-0, 6-0.
Women's singles: Natasha Robinson beat Emma Warren 6-4, 6-0; Sissy Pickering beat Dushka Warren 6-1, 6-1.
Men's doubles:Janse and Pickering beat McMenamin and Wright 6-1, 6-0.
Mixed doubles: Jackson and Robinson lost to Spooner and D.Warren 1-6, 4-6; Darling and Pickering beat Dudson and E. Warren 6-3, 6-1.
Another highlight of the weekend's tennis action in Wairarapa was the staging of the annual veterans tournament at the Masterton Tennis Centre.Over 100 players took part in men's and women's doubles and combined doubles events with entries coming from all over the lower North Island and as far afield as Tauranga.