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Garry Dodd and Alice Edwards will contest a trio of finals tomorrow night as they look to complete a sweep of the headline titles at the Island Championships.
On the weekend both had secured their slots in the singles and had teamed up for the mixed, last night they made it through to the men’s and women’s doubles finals at the championships being held at the GTTA centre.
Dodd is looking to retain his title with Joshua Butler and the pair were in ominous form during straight sets wins over Nye Matthew and Ben Foote, followed by Matthew Stubbington and Sam Clark.
The challenge for the top seeds in the semi-finals was the third seeded twin duo of Joshua and Lawrence Stacey.
Dodd and Butler had too much and raced into a three sets lead, followed by then opening up a 10-7 lead in the fourth.
The twins played some excellent shot making from this point and did superbly to pinch it 12-10.
They continued this momentum in the fifth end to force a sixth, but at this point Dodd and Butler increased their level and comfortably closed it out 11-4.
Their opponents in the final will be second seeds Ben Foss and Ryan Bichard.
They too reached the semi-finals without dropping a set by dispatching Andy Gill and Ian Le Page and then sixth seeds Jamie Ferbrache and Steve Ozanne.
In the semi-finals they were up against fourth seeds Phil Ogier and Jez Powell and they did well to overcome a deficit to pinch the opener 11-9.
Ogier and Powell took the second set comfortably to regain parity, however the younger pair then took the following three sets strongly with some high quality attacking table tennis to reach the final.
Edwards is competing with Charlotte Casey in this event and the top seeds made their way to the final with relative ease.
They defeated Emily Gavey and Sian Craig followed by Jan Priest and Katy Collenette without dropping a set.
Their opponents in the final will be the unseeded duo of Kay Chivers and Juliette Yeaman after they produced an upset win in the other semi-final.
Their match against second seeds Shelby Timms and Paula Le Ber started perfectly as they took the first two sets.
Timms and Le Ber took a tight third end 11-9, but the advantage was then increased when the eventual victors took the fourth 11-5.
The seeded pair again battled back to take another tight end 11-9, however this was not enough and the underdogs then comfortably closed out the sixth set 11-4 to earn an excellent scalp.
All Island Finals will be held tomorrow evening at the GTTA Centre.
The CI Finals are then on Friday evening, followed by the Inter-Insular team matches all day Saturday.
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