Okanagan players rank at Vernon tennis tourney<\/p>\n
Published 12:30 pm Wednesday, July 1, 2026<\/p>\n
Three players from Vernon, and three from Kelowna, wound up in the A finals at the 99th annual Hankey Cup Doubles Tennis Tournament.<\/p>\n
The nearly century-old event ran June 27 to 29 at the Kalamalka Country Club on the shores of Kal Lake in Coldstream.<\/p>\n
Participants came from Vernon, Salmon Arm, Kelowna, and Penticton to play in this annual tournament which included men\u2019s A and B doubles, women\u2019s A doubles, and mixed A and B doubles events.<\/p>\n
Spectators were entertained by many close matches and exciting tennis.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Bell of Vernon teamed with West Martin of Salmon Arm to knock off the Vernon duo of Derek Lord and Jerry Reinhardt in the Men\u2019s A Doubles final.<\/p>\n
The Women\u2019s A Division title went to Kelowna\u2019s Supha Wall and Olivia Dembroski, with Meryl Ogden of Vernon and Eva Koksalova from Kelowna finishing second.<\/p>\n
Taking the Men\u2019s B Doubles title were Mark Corbett and Barry Nelson, narrowly defeating Ralph Stevens and Shane Valouch in an all-Vernon matchup.<\/p>\n
In the mixed A doubles, four teams competed for the championship in a round-robin format, which was won by Koksalova and Cal Benazic from Kelowna. Runners up were Ogden (Vernon) and Alan Davis (Salmon Arm).<\/p>\n
In the mixed B doubles, eight teams played off. Winners were Caleb Jones and Amanda Newman of Kelowna. Runners-up were Tanya Elliot and Scott Wilson, also from Kelowna.<\/p>\n
Tournament directors Gary Davidson and Stevens appreciated the help of tennis committee volunteers Karalee Drdul, Dave Valouch, Laramie Shockey, Carey Stevens and Tuck Warner.<\/p>\n
Thanks also to Voet\u2019s Coffee for their continued generosity in donating coffee to the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okanagan players rank at Vernon tennis tourney Published 12:30 pm Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Three players from Vernon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-774163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}