Latrobe City Men’s International Challenger Event

What an absolute incredible day of play here in Traralgon at the Latrobe City Traralgon Challenger.

We started the day with both semi-final matches to be completed after rain halted play last night. Both Marc Polmans (VIC) and Andrew Harris (VIC) came from a set down to extend their matches into a third set. Both matches going the distance to a final set tie-breaker with Polman advancing 5-7 6-2 7-6(4) over Hiroki Moriya (JPN) and Harris advancing 4-6 7-6(2) 7-6(7) over Tatsuma Ito (JPN).

Whilst the singles finalists rested and recovered for the final, the doubles final was conducted on centre court. After a slow start, which ended in a tie-break the top seeds Max Purcell (NSW) and Luke Savile (SA) were able to claim victory over the unseeded pairing of Brydan Klein (GBR) and Scott Puodziunas (QLD) 6-7(2) 6-3 10-4.

Games stayed on serve in the first set of the singles final up until 5all when Marc Polmans (VIC) came through with the vital break of serve, he went on to serve out the set 7-5. From there Polmans looked to be in control of the rallies, taking the second set and the match 6-3. Polman’s claims his second ATP Challenger title of 2019 and his third overall. 

Marc Polmans – 2019 Latrobe City Traralgon Challenger Singles Champion

Max Purcell / Luke Saville – 2019 Latrobe City Traralgon Challenger Doubles Champions

Massive thank you to all  the Traralgon Tennis Association and the Latrobe City Council for once again providing such a wonderful venue and such an incredible team to work with.  Thank you to the amazing volunteers that continue to help run our events each year, we couldn’t do it without you all.

Thanks to Brett and Josh the physio’s extraordinaire, Matthew the massage man, Andrey Kornilov and Scott Ray our superstar Challenger Supervisor and Referee, Di Larkin out super-efficient Chief-of-Umpires, as well as the Chair Umpires, Line Umpires and the amazing Ballkids thank you for all your efforts.

Thank you to all who came along and watched the Grand Final!