Brothers set for semi-final clash

NIALL FITZGERALD enhanced his men’s singles title credentials when he gunned down former Wimbledon participant Edward Seator in the National Indoor tennis Championship quarter-finals at David Lloyd Riverview last night.

Now working as a coach at Dublin’s Clontarf-Westwood facility, Fitzgerald dropped only a total of three games in the first two rounds to enhance his chances of coming away with the top prize tomorrow.

The Surrey native looked on course for a place in the semi-finals when he took the first set thanks to one break of serve but Greystones lad Fitzgerald, a tennis scholarship student at Indiana’s Notre Dame, didn’t drop a game in the second set and subsequently overwhelmed his opponent in the champions’ tie-break to emerge with a 4-6 6-0 10-0 victory after an hour and 28 minutes.