By Caden Helmers
When Storm Sanders checks in at a tournament she usually has to say her name twice.
It's not a tongue-twister, nor hard to understand. But it is definitely unique.
Storm Sanders of Australia.Credit: Darrian Traynor
"A lot of people either think it's my nickname or my surname," Sanders said.
"They're like 'What's your name?' And I say 'Storm' and they're like 'What's your first name?' It happens a fair bit."
That could be about to change after Sanders – who was named after a character in a book – combined with Jessica Moore to clinch the female doubles title at the Australian Pro Tour's Canberra International on Saturday.
The 6-3, 6-4 win over Canberran Alison Bai and Lizette Cabrera will likely give Sanders a career-high doubles ranking before she heads into pre-season training.
The second-seeded pairing of Sanders and Moore joined forces last week in Bendigo after going their separate ways following a stint together at this year's Australian Open.
"We hadn't actually played together for a while so it was kind of nice to reunite," Sanders said. "We're obviously really good friends so it was a lot of fun playing together."
It took the duo just an hour to complete a straight-sets win and silence Bai's home-town crowd as they executed plans to perfection.
"We had watched a little bit of their match yesterday in the semi-final so we had a few things we wanted to do and we did it well," Sanders said.
Luke Saville and Jordan Thompson combined to clinch a 6-2, 6-3 win over Matt Reid and John-Patrick Smith in the men's doubles final.
James Duckworth knocked over Jordan Thompson 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the men's ATP Challenger singles final, where he will meet young gun Marc Polmans, who outlasted Omar Jasika in a gruelling two-hour battle 5-7, 6-3, 7-6.
Top seed Risa Ozaki advanced to the women's singles finals with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 win over US hopeful Jennifer Elie, The Japanese international awaits Italian qualifier Georgia Brescia after she disposed of Croatian Jana Fett 7-6, 6-2.