A tearful Jo Edwards dedicated her fifth World Cup singles crown to her mother, while Warilla superstar Jeremy Henry also made it five mens titles for Australia in a dramatic finals day at Warilla.

New Zealand’s World No 1 Edwards withstood a stirring fightback  from Guernsey’s Lucy Beere in a tie-break, while Henry made it five titles in six years by beating Malaysian  Soufi Rusli 6-5, 10-2.

Edwards fought back tears in dedicating her roller-coaster 8-5, 2-9 (4-1) triumph to her mother Brenda, who passed away a few months ago.

“It has been emotional losing my mum a few months ago and coming in here after getting silver at the world (championships) and silver in the Premier League and get to another final. Fortunately this time I got over the line,”™ Edwards said.

“™It was a titanic final. Lucy never stopped fighting. She played better than me in the second (set) but I got my form back in the tie-break. Leading 3-0 I still don’™t know how she made that shot in the second. But I was able to get there, just.

 Edwards has now won five of the 13 World  Cup womens singles- beginning with a hat-trick of titles in 2009, 2010 and 2011, plus her fourth in 2013.

The Kiwi star lost just one of her 12 matches at the tournament to Singapore in her final sectional match when she had already claimed the section.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Henry won his fifth World Cup in six years by outlasting a dogged Soufi Rusli in the final.

Henry played one of the shots of the tournament a running drive to break a 5-5 deadlock in the first set with Rusli holding shot for the set.

A massive storm erupted outside Warilla BC in the second set but Henry had too much class and from 2-2, won four straight ends to finish the match after only seven of the nine ends.

“This tournament has been great to me. Before today, I was able to win four, also make the final and also win the bronze,” Henry said.

“Playing at home is special and it’s always a terrific international field so I feel very fortunate to be in the final again,”™ Henry said.

 Rusli was backing up after a 9-2, 11-6 win over New Zealand world champion Ali Forsyth in the second mens semi-final on Wednesday morning.

 Forsyth looked out of sorts and lost his rhythm after not playing for two days due to advancing straight through to the semis.

Coincidently, three of the four section winners-“ Forsyth, Ronnie Duncan (Scotland) and Australia’s Natasha Scott lost their semi-final despite being the top player in the pool phase.