Drew Hawkins, Turner Voges win City tennis titles

Drew Hawkins returns the ball during the 2017 TSSAA Division II-AA tennis girls' singles championship match against Baylor teammate Landie McBrayer in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Hawkins took the state title that day, and she added three titles this weekend at the Chattanooga City Championship tournament.
Drew Hawkins returns the ball during the 2017 TSSAA Division II-AA tennis girls' singles championship match against Baylor teammate Landie McBrayer in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Hawkins took the state title that day, and she added three titles this weekend at the Chattanooga City Championship tournament.

Drew Hawkins won three titles and Turner Voges outlasted top seed Lucas Plesky in a men's singles classic as the 2019 Chattanooga City Championship concluded Sunday at the Manker Patten Tennis Club.

Voges, the No. 2 seed in the 16-man open field, won 7-6 (9-7), 3-6, 7-5 in a championship match that lasted nearly four hours - arguably one of the best battles ever waged on a Chattanooga tennis court. The former McCallie School standout is a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga graduate transfer from Memphis; Plesky is a relatively recent UTC alumnus who stayed in town as a chemical engineer.

The father-son duo of Ray and Eric Roddy followed their semifinal win over the No. 2 seeds with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over top-seeded Plesky and tournament director Brandon Deering.

Hawkins, like Eric Roddy a Baylor School graduate, won women's open singles, women's doubles and mixed open doubles - the doubles events with two other Baylor alumni, Lilly Mooney and Patrick Toomey. Hawkins, a Belmont University junior, won 6-2, 6-2 in the singles final as the No. 2 seed against No. 1 Marina Galey, who kept her out of the final last year but since has had a baby.

Amelia Fair and Charli Wyatt won in combined women's 8.0 doubles, Charmaine Kincaid and Therese Worth in women's 7.0, Brian Thomas and Brad Wheatcroft in men's 8.0, Scott Blalock and John Sorrow in men's 7.0, Zach Prophater and Chris Ramsey in men's 6.0 and Fiona Johnson and Scotty Webb in mixed 7.5 doubles.

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