TOP seed Carlos Adams destroyed Rudy Grant to keep in touch with Godfrey Lowden in the Men’s Over 35 singles at the Assuria Classic Invitational Lawn Tennis Tournament.

Playing the lone match on Monday evening at Harry Panday’s place Bel Air Park, Adams defeated Grant 6-1, 6-0 on the back of his superior play, playing in cold, damp conditions.
Adams started strongly by holding his serve 40-15 to open the first set of the evening match, he subsequently broke Grant to lead 2-0 , that was quickly followed up with yet another break to open up a 4-0 lead.
Rudy began to place his serves in strategic areas of the service box to hold at love, at which point he began feeling comfortable on the courts heading into the change over’s. That feeling though was short lived as Grant could not handle the top seeded Adams powerful ground strokes.
That was followed by an error prone second set from the senior circuit player, Rudy Grant, who eventually loss the set 6-0. He, Grant now drops to a 1-2 win/loss record in the round robin competition while Adams (3-0) remains on course for a Titanic clash with  Lowden  for the over 35 title on Sunday.
The top two seeds in the Over 35 competition Carlos Adams and Godfrey Lowden are unbeaten with 3 wins a piece virtually leaving both senior men to battle it out.
In action from last night, number 3 seed in the Men’s Singles group Leyland Leacock needed two tie break sets to get pass, up-and-coming junior sensation Daniel Lopes.
The young Lopes, a top national junior played comfortably throughout the opening set, looking more relaxed than he did in his previous match against Anthony Downes.
Lopes played very aggressively to force the tie breaker, the breaker was even up until the fifth game, which was one of the longest on Lopes’ serve. That was the most critical point in the opening set tie break, which the third seed eked to inch ahead 3-2 and take it(7-5).
The same strategy was applied by Lopes in the second only for him to lose that breaker (7-2); this was a vast improvement for the younger player from his three previous matches.
Meanwhile, the battle for supremacy in the Men’s single where top two seeds and best friends Anthony Downes and Jeremy Miller lock horns to be crowned, Assuria Invitational Classic champions.
The Women Kick into action on Saturday at the same venue.
Former Pegasus Open Ladies champion Carol Humphrey has formally accepted the invitation to play in the tournament at the last moment. Her acceptance was accepted by the tournament committee, which now brings the ladies draw to four players.
The tournament committee has also made another change to the tournament, by switching the remaining two days of matches over the weekend from Diamond Tennis centre to the National Racquet centre, Woolford Avenue.