Macaulay’s thrilling last towards quantity three seed Ben Hudson (Broughty Ferry) went the total distance.
The previous Pittodrie youth keeper survived the lack of the second set to finally prevail 6-4, 3-6, (10-7) after greater than two hours of play.
Bearsden’s Scott Macaulay, seeded two, received the lads’s singles title on the North-East Scotland Indoor Championships at Aberdeen Tennis Centre.
The ultimate of the ladies’s occasion was a extra easy affair, with favorite Halle Pringle (David Lloyd Sunderland) proving too robust for Whitecraigs’ Zoe Moffat. The rating was 6-1, 6-2.
The occasion was hit by a number of late Covid-related withdrawals together with that of males’s high seed and former runner-up Patrick Younger (Newlands).
RESULTS
MENS SINGLES 1ST ROUND – B. Struck (St. Andrews) bt I. Patchkoria (Cults) 6-2, 6-4; C. Fryer (David Lloyd Dundee) bt A. English (Perth) 6-1, 6-0; C. Michie (RGU) bt S. Martin (Rubislaw) 6-3, 7-5; E. McGinn (College of Stirling) bt Ok. Muzamal (King’s Faculty) 6-0, 6-1; C. Strang (Inchyra) bt A. Adams (ATC) 6-4, 6-4; T. Chan (Merchiston Fort) bt B. Alnasser (King’s Faculty) 6-1, 6-2; D. Gunn (Whitecraigs) bt O. Forbes (College of Stirling) 6-0, 6-2; B. Hine (Rubislaw) bt R. Sivarajan (Cults) 6-7, 6-3, (10-6); L. Gillespie (Rubislaw) bt O. Paterson (David Lloyd Aberdeen) 6-1, 6-1; A. Sitwell (St. Boswells) bt C. Cowie (Banchory) 6-2, 6-2; L. O’Brien (Hillhead) bt M. Kerswell (Rurhrieston Park) 6-1, 6-0; R. McLennan (Stirling) bt L. Duthie Grey (Edinburgh College) 7-6, 6-2; A. Grant (Rubislaw) bt G. Matthew (Cults) 6-1, 6-3; E. Mackenzie (Craiglockhart) bt F. Watters (Thorn Park) 3-6, 6-3, (12-10).
2ND ROUND – S. Macaulay (Bearsden) bt Grant 6-0, 6-0; O’Brien bt McLennan 6-3, 6-3; Mackenzie bt Chan 6-0. 6-2, McGinn bt Gillespie 1-6, 7-5, (11-9); B. Hudson (Broughty Ferry) bt Struck 6-3, 6-1; Sitwell bt Strang 6-1, 6-0; Fryer bt Hine 6-3, 6-3; Gunn bt Michie 7-5, 6-2.
QUARTER-FINALS – Mackenzie bt McGinn 6-2, 6-0; Macaulay bt O’Brien 7-5, 6-3; Fryer bt Gunn 6-3, 6-4; Hudson bt Sitwell 6-2, 6-3.
SEMI-FINALS – Macaulay bt Mackenzie 6-2, 1-6, (10-6); Hudson bt Fryer 7-5, 6-2.
FINAL – Macaulay bt 6-4, 3-6, (10-7).
WOMENS SINGLES – 1ST ROUND – L. Teffner (Aberdeen College) bt S. Sensible (Cults) 6-0, 6-0.
QUARTER-FINALS – Z. Moffat (Whitecraigs) bt C. Gibb (Gleneagles) 6-1, 6-3; A. Hudson (Broughty Ferry) bt A. Gates (Cults) 6-4, 6-3; C. Ward (Giffnock) bt R. Thomson (Gleneagles) 6-4, 6-3; H. Pringle (David Lloyd Sunderland) bt Teffner 6-2, 6-1.
SEMI-FINALS – Moffat bt Ward 6-1, 4-1 ret; Pringle bt Hudson 6-0, 6-3.
FINAL – Pringle bt Moffat 6-1, 6-2.
