SPORTS

Local tennis pros wish
weekend didn't happen

IY WAS) a-weekend = of
upsets for North Shore ten-
nis players in Toronto and
at home.

! STH COLLEINGS
News Reporter

First, North Vancouver's Grant
Connell, seeded second at the Ca-
nadian tennis championship in
Toronto, was knocked out by the
No. 15 seed, then defending pro-
vincial and national Remington
Family champs, Susie Fought and
Pam Hunter, were ousted by the
No. 2 seeds at the North Shore
Winter Club.

Brian Gyetko won the Sun Life
Nationals final after a 7-6 (7-5),
3-6, 7-6 (7-5) victory over Connell
on Sunday in a game interrupted
by rain on Saturday. It was the
first national singles final for
Connell, 24, since he captured the
Canadian under-18 title.

Later that day, Connel! teamed
with Mark Greenan of Ontario in
the men's doubles finals is down
Martin Laurendeau and ”

Bonneau of Quebec, 6-2
4).

Meanwhile at home, Hunter
and her daughter, Fought, of the
Hollyburn Country Club, lost the
provincial final, 7-6 (10-8), 7-6
(6-3) for the first time since the
Remington championship started
in 1988 to Leona and Caroline
Sporer. It’s the first provincial
win for the Sporers against Hunt-
er and Fought in three Remington
finals.

However, as runners-up last
weekend, Hunter and Fought will
still be able to have a crack at
defending their national title in
Toronto on the Labour Day
-weekend. Last year at the Interna-
tional Remington Family Cham-
pionship, the West Vancouver
team won a Kiam Finalist Cup
after playing the U.S. team.

Also going to the national
tournament are Jim and his son,
Stefano Walker, of North Van-
couver.

The Walkers reached the pro-
vincial finals for their second con-
secutive year before Jim and Pat

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

EYES ON the ball, Susie Fought prepares to return the bal! during the
provincial Remington Family Tennis Championships at the North Shore
Winter Club. Fought and her mother, Pam Hunter were defeated in the
final by the Sporers of Burnaby but still earned a berth in the national

tourney for this September.

Macken of Vancouver took out
the number two seeds 7-5, 7-5.

““We were kind of hoping to
win it this year,’* said a disap-
pointed Jim Walker, 45.

Nevertheless, the Walkers are
looking forward to the nationals
where Jim will be meeting up with
Stefano, 17, who will be coming
from Texas Tech where he starts
his firs: year on a tennis scholar-
ship.

“If we can get seeded, and I

We've got

hope we can, I think we can do
fairly well,’’ Jim said.

In other tennis news, the
Hollyburn Country Club team left
this week for the Canadian club
team championships in Toronto.

Captained by former Romanian
Davis Cup team member Gabriel
Neascu, the provincial team in-
cludes Hunter and Fought,
Stefano and his older brother,
Fabio Walker, Scott Moore, San-
dra Weinfeld and Robyn Jens.

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