Highbury Tennis Club celebrate 10th Annual Countrywide Insurance Brokers pre-harvest tennis tournament

Highbury Tennis Club held its annual Countrywide Insurance Brokers pre-harvest tennis tournament on November 7. This is the 10th year of running the event. The round-robin doubles tournament is held on the first Saturday of November each year and attracted 40 players across two grades in the men’s and women’s competition. There was some quality tennis on display to go along with lots of fun and closely fought games. The men’s A-grade competition pool had extremely high-quality matches all day. In the end Toolibin’s Angus Armstrong and Kendall Ballard edged out Brookton’s Brad Bassett and Ashley Hobbs 7-5 in the final game of the day to win the men’s A-grade title in a thrilling match. In the ladies’ A-grade competition it was the solid pairing of Highbury’s Chris Pettit and Narrogin’s Sarah Hennessey-Parks proving too strong across the day going through undefeated. Last year’s winning B-grade ladies from Katanning, Emily Pinney and Emily Doak, finished runners-up in A-grade. Youth and experience prevailed in the men’s B-grade for the second year in a row, with Narrogin father-and-son duo Jason and 12-year-old Trevor Eastwood defeating Narrogin’s Tom Bairstow and Steven Durrell. Young guns Maddie Andrews from Highbury and Pingelly’s Hayley Page were runners-up to ladies’ B-grade winners Dani Porter from Highbury, and Kelly Steere from Wickepin. Next year’s event is planned for Saturday, November 6.