Mike Curry, the affable veteran lefthander playing on his 'home' court while visiting the Island, will rue the fact he wasted two set points during his Coral Beach Invitational semi-final match against the favoured Andy Bray.

For Curry went on to lose in straight sets 6-1, 7-6 (8-6) yesterday.

"I had that won," said a dejected Curry. "It was my fault, especially on the first one because Andy hit down the line and I should have left it alone because it was going either wide or long. But I saw an opening and thought I could win the point anyway and went for it.

"Well you can see what happened ? I will be on the sidelines while he will be playing in the finals."

Meanwhile, the tournament's top seed, James Collieson, had a good workout with young Chris Watson on his way to a place in today's final, romping to a 6-1, 6-3 win.

Earlier, in one of the most bizarre matches, final or otherwise, Sam Maybury came from a set down to defeat Earl Leader 1-6, 6-1, 6-3 to capture the Men's 45 Singles title.

In this clash neither of the players held serve during the first two sets!

The only game won in the opening spell came for Maybury when he broke Leader in the fifth game to trail 1-4.

Maybury 'returned' the favour in the second set when Leader's only game came as a result of breaking Maybury when the latter double faulted in the fourth game.

But the real change in the match occurred in the eighth game of the deciding set with Maybury leading 4-3 and Earl serving. Leader had two unforced errors, one when he slipped and the other when he hit a half volley wide with Maybury well beaten.

That was just the way things had gone for Leader throughout the match, where Maybury was able to play the wind better, with ball 'dying' in mid-air, when at first it looked long, while other balls hit the tape and stayed low.

The wind was howling throughout the match catching both players off balance on more than one occasion, but Maybury's athleticism gave him more of an advantage on his way to the title.

In one of the more exciting finals of the day, Dede Cooper captured her first ever title in Bermuda when she teamed with the veteran Laverne Stowe to defeat Gill Butterfield and Wendy Gelhay 6-3, 6-3 to win the Ladies 40 Doubles crown.

"I'm on top of the world," exclaimed a beaming Cooper when it was all over. "I've been so close on so many occasions in the past. But today I actually did it."

Cooper admitted that she and Stowe complimented each other.

"She attacks the net and neither of us allowed Gill and Wendy to lull us into their slow patter," she said. "We both continued to attack and play solid strokes. It really was a fun game."

In one other final, the pair of Oliver Bain and Jan Jarmula must be wondering what happened in their final in the Men's 45 doubles when they let Earl Leader and Eldon Daniels off the ropes.

In commanding position in both sets, complacency set in. Bain and Jarmula led 3-0 and 30-love in the first set before losing 6-3, and they were up 4-2 in the second set before losing 6-4. It was said that their game went the way of the wind, all over the court, but not on it.

The two major finals today should be the Men's singles between Collieson and Bray, and the Men's Open final featuring Collieson and Curry against the youthful pair of Bray and Watson.