By STEPHEN MARTELLUCCI
NORTH READING — The fourth annual North Reading Tennis Open took place last Saturday and Sunday at North Reading High. Proceeds for the tournament went to the North Reading High boys’ and girls’ tennis programs. The tournament featured 31 players.
“The tournament ran really smoothly,” said North Reading High boys’ tennis head coach Mark Bisognano who runs the event along with North Reading girls’ coach Matt Tiberii. “The weather was great both days.”
Both days featured mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the 80’s.
In the men’s finals (over 18), Lorenzo Russo of Lynnfield shut out Daniel Stringer of Medford, 6-0, 6-0.
In the women’s finals, Quynh Tran beat Eve Crampon in three sets. Tran won the first set, 6-3 but lost the second one, 3-6. The third set was a 10-point super tiebreaker that Tran won, 10-7.
In the mixed doubles final, Nelson Lau, and his daughter Audrey, defeated Adam Reynolds and his daughter, Lucie, 6-1, 6-0.
The Lau’s are from Reading while the Reynolds’s are from North Reading.
Crampon and Emilie Giaime, who are both from Wakefield, beat North Reading’s Lori Johnson and Christina Chow in the women’s double final 6-4, 6-2.
In the boys (17 and under) final, North Reading’s John Pastore defeated Charles Luongo (Reading) 7-5, 6-2, while Therese Kosinski (Burlington) beat Lucie Reynolds, 7-6 (7-4 in the tiebreaker), 6-4.
In the junior doubles final, Reading’s Dylan Taylor and Grant Lewis beat Lynnfield’s Kathleen Brown and Christine Choi in three sets. Taylor and Lewis won the first set, 6-3. Brown and Choi, who are from Lynnfield, then won the second set, 7-5, but the boys won the rubber set, 6-3.
“That was the best match of the tournament by far,” stated Bisognano. “The girls gave the boys a very good run.”
The winners in each category got gift cards to local restaurants.