WHILE Emma Murphy flies the flag for Ireland in the women’s individual championships and fellow Corkwoman Elsa O’Riain carries a fourth seeding into the doubles alongside Australia’s Melissa Anderson, Limerick’s Conor Niland is perfectly poised for a tilt at the NCAA men’s singles championship this week.

LIMERICK’S Conor Niland got a huge shock at the semi-final stage of the Danone-sponsored National Irish tennis championships at Donnybrook last evening.

IRELAND’S top player Peter Clarke was the big news-maker on the Irish tennis scene yesterday when he was surprisingly left out of the Ireland team to meet Ukraine in the Davis Cup on the weekend of July 16-18.