Sherry FitzGerald won the annual estate agents tennis tournament for the fourth time when they beat Hooke & MacDonald in the final at Lansdowne Lawn Tennis Club. The event last weekend, which is sponsored by The Irish Times, was first held in 1989 and has become the traditional end-of-summer fixture for many Dublin agents before the busy autumn selling season.

This year, 13 teams took part in the tournament including a team from outside Dublin, Quinn Brothers from Longford.

The 13 teams were drawn in two groups and the two leading teams in each group qualified for the semi-finals.

The Law Society and Hamilton Osborne King emerged from one group, while Sherry FitzGerald and Hooke & MacDonald emerged from the second group.

In the semi-finals, Hooke & MacDonald beat the Law Society by three matches to nil, while Sherry FitzGerald also had a comprehensive three-nil victory over Hamilton Osborne King.

In a tense final, old adversaries, Sherry FitzGerald and Hooke & MacDonald competed for the coveted trophy. The men's doubles pairing of Simon Ensor and Brian Dooley, representing Sherry FitzGerald, had a 6-4 win over Hooke & MacDonald's Ken MacDonald and David Cantwell. A close-run match between the mixed doubles pairing of Maeve Cantwell and Ronan Rooney, of Hooke & MacDonald, and Laura Mulleady and John Walshe, of Sherry FitzGerald, produced a 7-5 victory for Sherry FitzGerald.

The final match was the women's doubles in which Aine Neill and Mary Creed, of Sherry FitzGerald, had a 6-4 win over Hooke & MacDonald's Sheelagh Lacy and Suzanne Elliott.

The prizes were presented by Wendy Jane Catherwood, president of the IAVI, and Maura Reilly, head of classified and property sales at The Irish Times.

The tournament directors were Valerie Bourke and Wendy Jane Catherwood.