Fitzgerald crashes out as unseeded Dunne hits form

LEADING Munster junior player, Cork’s Paul Fitzgerald, suffered a disappointing defeat to unseeded Morgan Dunne in the Irish Junior Open tennis championship quarter-finals at Fitzwilliam yesterday.

It was a tricky assignment for Fitzgerald, seeded number four, for Dunne was quite an unknown quantity as far as current form was concerned.

Dunne, a Dubliner, who contested last year’s final without success, had swapped play on the court for his books when preparing for the Leaving Certificate.