Well the weather man was finally on our side for Day 4 of the 2017 12/u and 14/u Australian Grasscourt Championships.
In the 12/u Girls, the top four seeds of [1] Hana Sonton (QLD), [2] Catherine Auila (NSW), [3] Jessica-Jade Haylo (QLD) and [4] Cassidy Mataia (QLD) have all made their way through to tomorrow’s singles semifinals. Impressively, all four players will also take part in the doubles final tomorrow with Aulia/Sonton vs Haylo/Mataia.
Two South Aussies will feature in the 12/u Boys semifinals with second seed Edward Winter taking a hard fought win over [5] Kanika Jayathilake (QLD) 7-5 6-7(5) 6-1 and [7] Doni Gashi defeating Samuel English (WA) 6-0 7-5. The doubles final will be between [1] Jeremy Jin (NSW)/Owen Yu-Hao (QLD) and [3] Zachary Viiala/Kent Yamazaki (WA).
In the 14/u Girls, top seed Tina Smith (QLD) took a convincing win over [7] Alexandra San Andres (Vic) 7-5 6-0 and South Australia’s Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz continued her winning ways with a 6-2 7-5 victory over fellow South Aussie Alana Repanich. In the boys, [2] Philip Sekulic (QLD) defeated Callum Gale (SA) 7-5 6-2 and [3] Cooper White took a strong win over Nicholas Salmon (Vic) 6-3 6-3.
Extraordinarily, the home state is guaranteed both of the 14/u Doubles Championships with Jasmine Adams/Repanich to play Kempenaers-Pocz/Maggie Pearce in the girls and Alex Carroll/Patrick Douglas to take on Terry Karahalios/Edward Vo in the boys.
Day 5 will see main draw singles semifinals take place at 9.30 am, with doubles finals not to be played before 3.30 pm.
Updated singles draws, doubles draws and order of play for Wednesday 12 April now available here.
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