PICTURES: Inverness Tennis Club hold championships in Highland capital with Adrian Duthie and Jane Bradley the big winners
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A full century after the first Inverness Tennis Club men's singles champion was crowned, a new batch of winners earned silverware in 2022.
Last Saturday saw the club hold their annual finals day, with some close competitions marking a celebration of the club and its members.
The men's final was filled with drama, as Adrian Duthie and Scott Henderson needed a third-set tie-breaker to decide the champion.
Each player had won one set 6–3, but in the end the final set went the way of Duthie 10–8.
It was not as close in the women's final, where Jane Bradley defeated Jane Chisholm 6–2, 6–0.
There was a repeat of 2021's final in the men's doubles, with the singles finallists teaming up to take on Roman Bilko and Brian Mackenzie.
Another tie-break was needed, but Duthie and Henderson would end up winning it comfortably, 10–4.
Bradley would make it a hat trick of triumphs, as she added the women's doubles – beating Chisholm and Carol Lobban 6–2, 6–4 alongside Shona Ramsay – and the mixed doubles, where she teamed with Bilko to defeat Sheena Forbes and Henderson 6–0, 6–1.
Mackenzie and Brian Dent were the men's over-50 and over-60 winners respectively, while Kay Henderson and Forbes claimed the corresponding women's titles.
The 100+ competition – where each pair's ages had to be over 100 combined – was won by Deborah Macrae and Danny Gillson.
Consolation winners included Ryan Mackenzie in the men's, Gillson and Neil Murdoch in the men's doubles and Kay Henderson and David Milne in the mixed doubles.
