Please note that the Finals Day singles finals matches start at 13:30 to accommodate the delayed Mixed Doubles matches from Thursday. Tea and prize presentations are forecast to be 16:00 and the Mixed Doubles Final will be played aro0und 16:30.
The complete schedule for Finals Day Saturday can be found here.
The draws leading up to the Finals Day matches are here.
The two unfinished matches were resumed at 18:30 in the evening. See Thursday 25 July match report for the play so far.
On court 1, Alex Vallmajor resumed serving at 3-4 down against Logan Mair, who won the first set 7-67-5. There had been no breaks of service in the match so far.
Alex believed he was at a disadvantage in having to serve cold to resume, while Logan had a game to warm up his play before having to serve. But Alex held his serve to level the second set at 4 games all. Logan held his next service game to go 5-4 up, then put a lot of pressure on Alex, who could not maintain his record on serve, and was finally broken to give Logan the set 6-4 and the match 7-67-5 6-4.
At first, both Alex and one of the bystanders (who shall remain nameless) were confused, but it was clear to Logan and others not directly on the court, that Logan had just won the match, having served only the once.
On court 2 the completion of the match between 4th seed, Olly Turner, and 7th seed Joseph Rigal, took considerably longer. Joseph had won the first set 6-2, with Olly taking the second set 6-4. Joseph now had to serve 0-3 down in the final set.
On the resumption Olly was playing very consistently. He tended to lure Joseph into the net, and Joseph could not find the winning approach shot off a short ball, then was not able to stop Olly from passing him. But Olly typically came to the net with approach shots which put Joseph under a lot of pressure, with Olly finding the winning volley most of the time. Joseph was, however, hitting a number of first service winners. But Joseph didn’t seem to be playing quite as well as he had in the previous round, perhaps because Olly was able to apply more pressure.
Joseph won his serve. Matters proceeded on serve until Joseph found himself serving 2-5 down, winning the game. Joseph then broke back to 5 all. He was again under pressure on his next service game, with Olly having match points, but Olly could not convert.
In the set tie break (first to 7), mini-breaks were traded but serving on serve at 4-5 down, Joseph lost his two service points to give Olly the set 7-67-4.
