Meredeth Quick And Steph Hewitt Capture Wilson Cup  
by Rob Dinerman

Winners Steph Hewitt/Meredeth Quick (purple),  Scott Wilson (Morgan Stanley), Finalists Suzie Pierrepont/Tehani Guruge


Dateline July 26th ---  Meredeth Quick and Steph Hewitt ended the 2013-14 WDSA season on a victorious note by defeating first-time partners Suzie Pierrepont and Tehani Guruge 15-10, 11 and 6 this afternoon at the Elmaleh-Stanton Center in Southampton in the final round of the third annual Wilson Cup. Byed to the semis of this six-team invitational event by virtue of their top-seeded status, Quick and Hewitt won a competitive four-game semifinal against Dana Betts and Tarsh McElhinny Saturday afternoon, while in the bottom-half semi second seeds Pierrepont and Guruge out-played Narelle Krizek and Joyce Davenport. Pierrepont and Krizek have won an all-time high 13 tournaments over the past five years, including the 2012 and 2013 versions of this Wilson Cup event with respective final-round wins over Hewitt/McElhinny and Hewitt/Dana Betts.

   Today's final was closely contested until midway through the second game, with Pierrepont imposing her firepower and Guruge, by far the youngest of the four players on court, chipping in with winners as well. But Quick and Hewitt, partners for five years, have acquired a level of teamwork and cohesion that emphatically asserted itself from that point onward, enabling them to run out the second game and race through a thoroughly convincing close-out third. The WDSA is planning an exciting schedule for the 2014-15 campaign, which will be the eighth since the tour's founding in Autumn 2007.






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