Aaron Hicks added the Otago Indoor Tennis Open title to the Otago Open title with a convincing final performance yesterday.
He beat Carlos Reid 6-4, 6-0 in a match where the score told the story. Auckland student Hicks prospered as the rallies became longer and he gradually forced Reid into risky choices and an increasing number of errors in the second set.
Reid seemed undecided whether to go on all out attack and Hicks kept the pressure on with fine placements.
Ryan Eggers was too inventive and solid for Paddy Ou in the playoff for third and fourth and won 6-1, 6-3 after Ou had left it all in his 2-6, 7-6, 2-6-marathon semifinal loss to Hicks.
This match featured many long rallies as each player searched for an opening on the slow carpet. Reid had a solid workout from Eggers in the other semi but held on to win 6-4, 6-4 in a tense finish to each set.
Ou had earlier caused a minor upset when he was able to outlast third seeded Auckland student Sam Shearer 7-6, 6-3, gradually breaking down his much taller opponent's power game.
The women's round robin event saw some evenly fought matches with Rileigh Fields proving a little too solid for her three rivals. She beat Eliza Booth 6-3, 6-4 in the final round after Booth had won her two earlier singles.
The pair combined to win the only double played, beating Heike Cebulla-Elder and Amelia King 6-2, 7-5.
An entertaining men's doubles final went to Eggers and Ou, who were unseeded, as they gradually overcame Reid and Sizemore 5 7, 6-3, 10-4.
The winners had comfortably accounted for second seeds Shearer and Hamish Low 6-2, 6-3 in their semifinal, while Reid and Sizemore were pushed by young Queenstown pair Peter Hartono and Josh McDermott and won 6-3, 7-5.
Sizemore won the special plate and Low won the plate.
