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Ash and Sash are Caribbean champions

Sasha Fisher and Ashley Brooks (pictured) teamed up to win the girls' doubles title at a top regional junior tennis tournament in St. Vincent.

The two teenagers triumphed 6-3, 6-3 over Nicole Agositini and Hope Pollonais of Trinidad in the Caribbean 14-and-under Development Championships.

Their comfortable victory at the National Tennis Centre in Kingstown helped to earn the Bermuda team third place overall out of 10 countries taking part.

With 14-year-old Fisher serving superbly and 13-year-old Brooks volleying sharply at the net, the Bermudian pair never looked like losing.

After taking the first set, they raced into a 5-1 lead in the second. Nerves crept into their play and they wasted five match points and allowed the Trinidadians to reduce the deficit to 5-3.

But they regained their composure to clinch the match and with it, the title.

Fisher, who earlier this year became the youngest player to represent Bermuda at senior level in the Federation Cup, also finished third in the singles competition, while Brooks finished ninth.

Bermuda's boys, John Masters and Kris Frick, reached the semi-finals of the boys' doubles before losing to opponents from Aruba.

Masters also finished ninth in the singles and Frick, who is still only 12, finished 10th.

Trinidad were comfortable winners of the tournament with 37 points, while the US Virgin Islands took second place with 24 points, just two ahead of third-placed Bermuda.

The Island team's high placing marked progress from last year, when they finished fourth in Trinidad, when Fisher also won the doubles title, playing with a partner from Aruba.

The team was coached by Howard Cross.