The annual Kiama Tennis Club "Vets and Legends” tournament was well supported by locals and visiting South Coast players recently.

Club president David Lehman was pleased with the turnout with many Kiama players dominating the events.

The Round Robin events were briefly halted by a morning storm on the Saturday but play resumed after an hour.

Kiama’s Tracey Coleman performed well in the ladies doubles with Chris Stiller, recording victories in the aged and combined aged ladies doubles.

In the singles events played on the Friday, KSDTA Ladies Competition secretary Jan Horspool was successful in the Group B singles event, defeating Leoni Murphy.

In the men's open singles, two local tennis coaches - Joe Moseley from Kiama and Shaun Rose (Blowhole) were the finalists.

Moseley picked up the "Quad Crown" with wins over Shaun Rose in the singles and combining with Shaun in the aged men's doubles to defeat Michael Veith and James Cain (Kiama).

In the Aged doubles, Joe and Shaun defeated Manual Radich and Todd de Leeuw from Wollongong.

Joe's fourth event victory was with Tammy McDonald (Kiama), defeating Lehman and Alana Green in the Group A mixed doubles final.

Tournament director Ross Smith paired up with Kay Daniel to take out the Group C mixed doubles with a close win over Bob Morgan and Hilary Brigden.

The final of the Group B aged mixed doubles was a local affair with James Brown and Helga Pimm defeating Ralph Szulerowski and Katie Sharpe.

A relative newcomer to tournament tennis, Maree Hackett, teamed up with Colin Elliot to lose a close Group C mixed final.

David Graham (Kiama) teamed up with his son Simon Graham (Canberra) to take out the combined aged Group B doubles event.

Other locals to feature in finals included Mark Coleman, Wilco dal Haas, David O'Keefe and James Brown.

The tournament committee was very pleased to receive continued sponsorship support from the ANZ bank and the Big 4 Caravan Park Resort at Easts Beach and the winner of the major raffle prize was Alana Green from Wollongong.