Tennis: Ireland record good day against Wales

Ireland's women took pride of place at this weekend's Home Countries International Tennis Tournament in Glasgow finishing runners up to England in their section after a good final day against the Welsh.

Gina Niland and Elsa O'Riain recovered from a drubbing at English hands on Saturday to beat Wales in all three ties.

Niland, whose lack of recent circuit level play saw her go down to Felixstow Futures semi-finalist Melissa Berry in the 2nd round, lost just one second set game against Ellen Jones from Wales for 6-0 6-1 victory.

O'Riain had come close to tears after her outing against England's Cristelle Grier when she left court believing she had lost to "cheating" tactics and a ball called out when in.

And she was slow to settle against Welsh number one Kirsty Thomas losing the first set 1-6.

From then on it was always a bit of a struggle with breaks of serve against her in the two remaining sets to give cause for worry before she won 1-6 6-4 6-4. "I was a bit tired," she said, "but once I got into a rhythm I didn't miss much."

In the doubles, they won an easy 6-1 6-1.

And in the senior men's tournament Larne's Nelson Boyle notched up his first singles success of the weekend.

After losing the first set 0-6 and seemingly heading for a beating, he fought back to take the next two 6-4 6-2 for victory.

England were overall winners with Scotland 2nd while Ireland beat Wales for 3rd spot, both teams on section 7 wins but they had 20 rubbers on their score card to 18 for the Welsh.