Grassroot takes first sip of Grenadines Challenge Cup

The Grassroot Tennis Club (GTC) got the first hold of the Grenadines Challenge Cup, the symbol of Tennis supremacy between the GTC and the Mustique Tennis Club.{{more}}

GTC claimed the maiden title 5-4, when the inaugural competition served off last Sunday in Mustique.

The inaugural first leg of the competition saw the teams playing eight game sets in six singles and the Doubles play.

At the end of the singles, GTC led comfortably 4-2, with Rafai Bentick defeating Kirk Dasilva when the number one seeds met.

But, Mustique clawed back in the Doubles when the Director of the Mustique Tennis Club Richard Schaffer teamed up with Kirk Da Silva to defeat Deron Grant and Bentick and the Mustique Doubles team of Randolph Bailey and Michael Charles got the better of Kyle De Freitas and Khir Huggins, to level the competition at 4-4.

The deadlock was broken when in the deciding doubles play off between Basil Charles and Glenn Forde of Mustique Tennis Club lost out to the GTC pair of Head Coach Trevor Sam and Director Grant Connell.

This was a comeback for the GTC duo, after the Mustique pair was leading 4-2.

Richard Schaffer of Mustique Tennis Club organised the Challenge Cup and said it was a great success and hope this can be the beginning of a great tradition in which more players in the country would give in.

The competition, which will be contested twice per year, on a home and away basis, is seen as the formation of the embryo, signalling the rebirth of Club Tennis in St Vincent and the Grenadines. (RT)