JULIEN Lawes and partner Georgina Stickland took just 20 minutes to complete a remarkable mixed doubles victory over Tom Legg and Zoe Acutt at Greenhill last night in the Weymouth Town Tourna-ment after the match had been halted by rain at one set all on Monday.

Having won seven games in a row to steal the second set Lawes and Stickland were keen to keep that roll going and their opponents were under pressure from the off as a nervy Acutt struggled to serve with the wind, losing the opening game to 15.

A more confident Stickland then held to love at the same end and so Legg desperately needed to win his service game firing into the wind.

But a wild forehand from the former singles champion conceded the game to 30 and the Lawes/Stickland combo had won ten games in a row.

From there Lawes showed the spectators how to serve into the wind putting all the pressure back on the Acutt serve.

Despite a couple of double faults, as the wind carried serves long, this was by far the most competitive game and it took a glorious backhand winner on the run by Lawes to beat Legg down the line and take the game after one deuce point.

Stickland then brought up two match points with some purposeful serving and Lawes completed the task punching two volleys away at the net to end the deciding set 6-0.

Earlier in the evening Lawes and Legg showed why they are favourites to win the doubles as they eased home in straight sets against John DeKretser & Chris Nelson while former champions Clif Moreton and Clive Stow also made light work of overcoming the Bridport pairing of Mark Mathias and Robbie Hayter to one and two.

The last game on court saw Matt Brook enjoy a real ding-dong struggle with Peter Notley in the second round of the singles - the former pulling through 6-2, 7-6 after Tom Flowerdew had just got the measure of Richard Roberts, to three each set.

RESULTS

Men's singles - T Flowerdew bt R Roberts 6-3, 6-3, M Brook bt P Notley 6-2, 7-6.

Men's doubles - C Moreton & C Stow bt M Mathias & R Hayter 6-1, 6-2, Julien Lawes & Tom Legg bt J DeKretser & C Nelson 6-0, 6-0 Mixed doubles - J Lawes & G Stickland bt T Legg & Z Acutt 6-7, 7-5, 6-0.

ORDER OF PLAY TONIGHT

6pm: Men's singles - L Thomas v J Samuelson, C Moreton v D Cartwright.

7.15: Men's doubles - M Brook & P Mason v C Moreton & C Stow.Mixed doubles - C Moreton & R Lawes v A & T Moore (to finish).