Flagstaff Freighters women and Trinity Titans men qualify for Asia-Pacific Tennis League national finals

FLAGSTAFF Freighters will enter January's Asia-Pacific Tennis League finals full of confidence after steamrollering all comers in the SA conference.

FLAGSTAFF Freighters will enter January's Asia-Pacific Tennis League finals full of confidence after steamrollering all comers in the SA conference.

The defending national champion, Freighters could not have been more impressive in their win over the Tea Tree Gully Timberwolves in last Friday's SA conference final at Memorial Drive.

The Freighters won all six rubbers and only dropped 19 games in the demolition.

Interstate trio Viktorjia Rajicic, Jessica Moore and Karolina Wlodarczak again starred in the win.

Rajicic is currently ranked inside the world's top 400 and beat former Freighters player, now Gullies No. 1, Chloe Hule 4-1, 4-0.

Western Australian Moore, who has been ranked as high as 137 in the world, overcame a slow start to beat Claire Dixie in three sets, while Wlodarczak breezed past Nicole Kraemer in straight sets.

The Freighters' local star Nicole Collie had a strong win against Claudia May after dropping the first set.

The Freighters then won both doubles, ensuring they will head to Melbourne Park during January's Australian Open to defend their national crown.

On the men's side, Trinity Gardens pair Adam Alessandrini and Darren Polkinghorne won a final-set super tiebreaker as the Titans overcame Memorial Drive.

In a thrilling finish to the SA conference final, Trinity trailed The Drive 3-2 on rubbers, meaning Alessandrini and Polkinghorne had to beat Luke Smith and Yuya Ito for the Titans to progress to January's national finals at Melbourne Park.

With the sides locked at one set apiece, a super tiebreak to 10 was required and Trinity looked to have the edge when leading 7-2.

Memorial Drive then fought back to 7-5, as the tie went down to the final few points.

Alessandrini and Polkinghorne held their nerve with some clutch volleying to win 10-6, meaning Trinity will represent SA during the Australian Open for the first time.

Earlier, the sides split the singles rubbers 2-2, with Polkinhorne and Patrick Ganet winning for Trinity.

Ganet beat Lawrence Bataljin in three sets, while Polkinghorne had a straight- sets win over Sam Longhurst.

Li Tu and Colin Ebelthite both lost tight three-setters.

Ebelthite and Tu then lost a nailbiting doubles clash in three sets to Paul Kramberger and Mark Butcher.