The ?Golden Oldies? defeated the youngsters by a lopsided score of 6-1 on Sunday at the WER Joell Tennis Stadium in the annual Over 35s against Under 35s clash.

There was talk all day that the Unders would have to split their Davis Cup and Small Island Games power players to defeat the Overs and after losing the first three matches, the Unders did just that, splitting their teams in the hope of winning four in a row and winning the best-of-seven fixture.

But it was not to be as the younger split power teams lost two of the next three matches at the top and suffered a final misfortune of a walkover to lose the number one match as well, leaving the final score at 6-1.

The day started out with the very strong Overs team of Earl Leader and Wilfred Gonsalves defeating the young pair of Ryan Swan and Paul York in straight sets 6-1, 6-4 before the cagey older pair of David Lambert and Eldon Daniels beat John Masters and Quinton Burgess 6-0, 6-2.

The rout was now on with the Overs up 2-0.

The experienced pair of John Johnston and David Hyland were much too steady for youngsters Fraser Moore and Johnny Holland, comfortably taking that match 6-2, 6-2.

The next match sealed it for the Overs as the consistent Brent Smith and Steve Bean defeated Davis Cup player Romar Douglas and Jacob Trott 6-4, 6-4.

Insult was then added to injury as the seasoned pair of Stuart Smith and Andrew Kennedy defeated the second split power team of the Unders, Bermuda stalwart Jenson Bascome and Tony Thompson, 6-1, 6-4. The young team struggled valiantly to stay in the game in the second set but to no avail.

In the best match of the day ? and a win finally for the Unders ? young guns Gavin Manders and David Thomas beat the experienced pair of Mark Cordeiro and Roger Marshall 6-3, 6-7, 7-6. The match was a long encounter, hotly contested and enjoyable for all to watch.

The final match was a walkover for Michael and Brian Way over Andy Bray and James Collieson when the latter failed to show at the last minute, despite claiming messages had been sent to say he was injured.

In a separate fixture, the Older Ladies defeated the Young Ladies 7-4 on Friday evening.