Club's Invitational Tournament at Coral Beach, pulled off a superb victory on Saturday when he upset top seed Mike Curry 6-3, 2-6, 6-2.

Playing in his first local tournament, Eggenschwiler wasted little time in stamping his authority on the game when he broke Curry in the first and third games for a 4-0 lead from which Curry was unable to recover.

"I just couldn't get focused early on and before I knew it I was down two service breaks,'' said Curry.

The local man bounced back to take the second set 6-2, but he was unable to get going in the deciding set, losing the last four games and the match.

Second seeds Stuart Smith and Reto Krauer beat Jerome Bradshaw and Mark Ward to take the men's doubles crown 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).

It seemed the favourtes were facing an uphill battle when Smith was broken at love in the opening game of the match and Bradshaw won his serve easily for the loss of just one point.

But it was then that disaster struck for Ward when he broke a string in his one and only racquet and had to borrow Bradshaw's spare. That gave Smith and Krauer the chance to turn the match around with a break in the fourth game to level the score at 2-2 and go on to take the set.

The second set went with serve until the tie-break when Smith and Krauer took the early iniative. Bradshaw's powerful serve pulled his team back into contention but he couldn't stop Smith from serving out the match.

"When they broke me at love we knew things were going to be difficult but we thought if we made them play the ball and just hang in we would be able to win,'' said Smith. "Plus the fact my partner played a hell of a game.'' As far as Ward was concerned things really didn't go wrong, even with his partner's borrowed racquet. "We just didn't make enough shots when they really counted,'' he said.

Kim Simmons, playing a steady game, toppled top seed and former youth team partner Kelly Holland to take the women's title, while Gretchen Devlin and Daphne Whitman defeated Gill Butterfield and Margie Gottscho 6-3, 6-4 in the ladies' 40s doubles final.

The veterans of the tournament continued to sparkle when Dick Mount and his partner Wally Stimpson, who was nursing a pulled muscle, took the 55s doubles title with a 7-5, 7-5 victory over fellow Americans Bob Brown and Gene Whitman.