NEGRIL, Westmoreland — Former national representative Damion Johnson won his second Couples Swept Away Easter Clay Court Men’s Open Singles title yesterday after avenging last year’s loss with a straight sets win over defending champion Joe Cadogan in the final played at the hotel in Negril.

The top seed Johnson, who recently returned home from Florida where he was based for the past few years, beat the Trinidad-born Cadogan in straight sets 6-3 6-4 to take home the $110,000 first prize cheque plus the winners trophy and other prizes.

In the Ladies Open Singles, number two seed Megan Jones who is based in Florida, upset top seed Diana Goldsmith in three sets 3-6, 6-0 6-3 to win her second titles and first since 2005.

Nicholas Malcolm beat Adrian ‘Ruddy’ Armstrong in straight sets 6-3 6-1 in the finals of the Pro 35 and Over, Richard Deeham beat Stephen Jones 6-4 6-0 in the Amateur finals while Max Brown and Malcolm won the Doubles 6-0, 6-1 over Marcus Malcolm and Davian Burrell.

Johnson, who lost in three sets last year after winning the first set, got off to a fast start yesterday, leading 3-0 but Cadogan rallied to 5-3 and threatened to extend the first set when he took the ninth game to deuce before Johnson held on to take the first set.

The second set was far from smooth as the two combined for five service breaks in the first seven games and also saw Cadogan take a medical time out to treat what he said was tight muscles in his back.

Johnson led 4-3 when Cadogan asked for the time out, and after the Trinidadian won the eighth game at love, the Jamaican wrapped up the match with two big aces in the final game.

In the semifinals on Sunday, Cadogan turned back Yussuf Mikogo 6-0, 6-1 in straight sets, while Johnson beat many-time champion American Vince McKey, also in straight sets 6-3, 7-5.

In then Ladies Open final, the tall Goldsmith raced to an early lead, rallying from 1-3 down, but despite battling stomach cramps, which she said could have been from eating under cooked hamburgers the previous night, Jones, whose parents are Jamaicans, gutted out a tough win.

After the game, the 20-year-old Jones, who played College tennis at Stetson and Florida International University, said she was “hurting but wanted it (the title) badly”.

After winning the second set 6-0, Jones went up 4-2 in the third then broke Goldsmith’s serve to lead 5-3 before serving out for the match.