His body was aching a day later, but a sweep of the three City of Victoria Island Open tennis titles helped take the edge off for Wesley Bertsch.
"It was two long days of tennis, which took a toll on all my muscles," he said of lengthy Saturday and Sunday events at Lambrick Park. "But it worked out pretty well.
"I'm not going to lie to you," he chuckled, of his men's open singles' 6-3, 6-2 victory over older brother Kieran Bertsch. "It felt like a payback for all those times he used to beat me in our earlier days."
The 19-year-old had teamed up with 21-year-old Kieran to defeat John Miller and Shawn Lusignan 6-2, 6-0 in Sunday morning's men's open doubles championship before Wesley then got the better of his older sibling shortly after.
Then the two got back on the hard surface and Wesley and Andjela Stojkovic teamed up to down Kieran and Sara Hart-Seeton 6-3, 6-2 for the mixed doubles' crown as Wesley capped the perfect day.
In the womens' open, No. 2-ranked Stojkovic toppled top seed Harjit Gosal 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 before the two teamed up to defeat Bridgit Tronruid and Mariko Takimura 6-4, 6-1 in the open doubles final.
The Bertsch brothers had recently returned from playing professional Futures tennis events in Southeast Asia and Wales.
Wesley is now enrolled at Camosun College, where he will study exercise and wellness, while Kieran will start pre-engineering courses at UBC.
