The drama in the Irish Open tennis championship finals at Fitzwilliam on Saturday was produced in the Girls under-16 decider won in extraordinary circumstances by the Tipperary teenager, Clodagh McMorrow.
She seemed dead and buried, a set down and trailing 2-5 to Rachel Halligan, the number three seed.
McMorrow fairly raced to victory from the eight game of the second set for a 1-6 7-5 6-3 win.
Elsa O Riain, of Kilcully in Cork, lifted the senior girls' title for a second successive year despite an erratic performance that sufficed against the sometimes impressive Emma Murphy, the number two seed, also from Cork. O Riain won 7-5 6-2. Larne's Nelson Boyle based his success in the boys' senior final over Tim Barry on a sound service game and won 6-4, 6-3.
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