Cornish takes out men’s single title
3 October, 2023, 2:40 pm
Tennis player Storm Cornish at the Tennis competition at the Victoria Courts in Suva, on st 30 Sept 2023. Picture: ELIKI NUKUTABU
Storm Cornish won the Open Men’s Singles title shrugging off a tough fight from Solomon Islands’ Benjamin Junior in the final of the Vodafone Suva Open Tennis tournament yesterday.
Cornish had a good start and won the first set 6-4.
Junior came back strongly in the second set, but Cornish had other plans and managed to take the set 7-5 and win the final.
Tarani Kamoe won the Open Women’s Singles final against Josephine Grace Debalevu.
Kamoe beat Debalevu with two straight sets, 6-2 6-4.
In other results, Grace Liu beat Mareile Jerosch-Hoehn 8-4 to win the Social Women’s Singles final while Yashraj Patel beat Deevansh Singh 8-5 to win the Social Men’s Singles final.
Shalend Singh beat Beatrix Ecube 6-0 to take out the Novice Singles title while Idaant Basu won the under-14 Boy’s Singles Final edging Liam O’Donnell 8-7.
