Days after the Shepparton tournament ended the family was on the road to the inter-regionals event at Yarrawonga.
Siblings, Tayla and Kade, faced off in the Under-12 doubles tournament at the GV Open and contested a thrilling tie breaker before the younger of the pair secured the win.
Kade was playing with Echuca’s Eli Kingma in the event, while Tayla partnered Sydney-sider Corey Dixon. She and Dixon won the opening set 6-3, before dropping the next 4-6 to force a tie breaker.
In that tie breaker her younger brother was an 11-9 winner.
Their father, David, won his opening-round match 6-4, 6-2, then progressed with a tie break win in the round of 16. He lost the first set in a tie break, then bounced back for a 7-5 win to force the tie breaker — which he won 10-7.
In another epic match, the unseeded Starling lost his quarter final match to Zach Ransen after winning the opening set 6-2, then losing 4-6 and ending his tournament with a 7-10 tie-break loss.
Starling and Deagan Tomkins won their opening-round doubles match 6-4, 6-2, but lost in the round of 16 to the sixth seeds in the event 1-6, 4-6.
Eighth seed Tomkins was a 6-3, 6-2 winner in his opening match, then won a tough contest 7-6, 7-5 before losing to the second seed Sam Allen in the quarter final 3-6, 4-6.
Kade Starling secured one victory in the Under-12 boys singles event and won the opening two rounds of his Under-11 boys doubles with Eli Kingma before losing in the quarter final.
Tayla Starling and Chloe Liddell contested the Under-12 girls doubles and won their way through to the semi-final, before bowing out of the tournament with an ankle injury.
Starling faced the fourth and sixth seeded players in the singles.
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