Helensburgh Tennis Club

HELENSBURGH Tennis Club's Gordon Reid lost to Dutch world no.6 Ronald Vink in Wednesday's men's singles second round at the US Open USTA Wheelchair Tennis Championships in St Louis, Missouri.

In his opening match on Tuesday the 18-year-old British no.2 and world no.16 beat Chile's Robinson Mendez 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the fifth and final Super Series event on the 2010 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour.

Gordon then had his third meeting this season against sixth seed Vink, having endured two narrow losses to the Dutchman at May's World Team Cup and July's British Open, and, while he played well, he lost again 6-3, 6-2.

On the day that marked two years to go to the start of the wheelchair tennis event at the London 2012 Paralympics, Gordon and partner fellow Briton Marc McCarroll beat Canadian duo Eric Gilbert and Yann Mathieu 6-0, 6-2 to progress to the last eight.

In Friday's quarter-final they took second seeds Stephane Houdet of France and Stefan Olsson of Sweden to three sets before eventually slipping to a 6-1, 3-6, 6-0 defeat.

HELENSBURGH Tennis Club's annual club championships were completed on Saturday with no major upsets for the favourites — and top honours going to Alastair Hope who walked off with three trophies.

Alastair took the over 40 mens singles title with a classy display against Hadden Smith. Hadden was playing with an injured ankle but he admitted he would have struggled against Alastair's powerful display even if he was fully fit.

LUCKY Louise Burnet has won the Helensburgh Tennis Club Lottery for the second time in three months.

Organiser Gay Black made the draw today, and a cheque for £20 is now on the way to Louise who last won it in June.