Africa-Press – Namibia. NAMIBIA’s George Louw was the only seeded casualty in the first round of the boys singles competition at the International Tennis Federation J4 tournament at Windhoek’s Central Tennis Courts yesterday.
Louw, who was the eighth seed, suffered a straight sets defeat to the unseeded Maris Ostrowski of Austria, who easily won the match 6-1, 6-2. Ostrowski will now meet Evan Jarzaguet of France who beat South Africa’s Rudiger Dusselberg 6-2, 6-0.
All the other seeded players however comfortably reached the second round of the competition.
The top seeded Leo Matthysen of South Africa, who is ranked 301 amongst the world’s top juniors, comfortably beat Namibia’s Stephan Koen 6-0, 6-1, to book a second round date against Yoshka Sborowsky of France, who beat Jay Singh of Australia 6-2, 6-3.
The number two seed, Benedict Badza of Zimbabwe comfortably beat Namibia’s Daniel Jauss 6-1, 6-3, to book a second round clash against the unseeded Johannes van Wijk of South Africa who beat Esi Molefe of Botswana 6-0, 6-1.
The third seeded Joseph Townes of South Africa beat Namibia’s Ruben Yssel 6-0, 6-2 and will now meet the unseeded Mostafa Nour el Din of Egypt who beat Thompson Thomu of Zimbabwe 3-6, 6-4, 6-0.
The fourth seeded Mark Nawa of Botswana beat Namibia’s Dian Calitz 6-3, 6-1 to book a second round clash against the unseeded Marshall Hulett of South Africa, who beat Tobiasz Sopolinski of Poland 6-3, 7-6.
The fifth-seeded Yarona Morule of South Africa beat Hayden Loffler of Swaziland 7-5, 6-2 to book a second round clash against compatriot John Coetzee, who beat Namibia’s Eduan Schollij 6-0, 6-0.
The sixth seeded Calum Jestin of South Africa beat Namibia’s Joel Hiveluah 6-0, 6-0 to book a second round clash against the unseeded Elias Hoxha of Austria who beat Francois van Wyk of South Africa 6-4, 6-2.
The seventh seeded Shane Tapera of Zimbabwe beat Antonio Tchivanda of Angola 6-1, 6-0 and will now meet the unseeded Jovan Lubbe of South Africa who beat Namibia’s Sarel Janse van Rensburg 6-0, 6-1.
In the girls singles competition, all the top seeded players received byes into the second round, while a few also secured comfortable victories to progress to the quarterfinals.
Rune van Wyk of South Africa beat Leandre Louw of Namibia 6-2, 6-1 in the first round, but lost to her second seeded compatriot Tayla Wilmot 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 in the second round.
Kaitlyn Ramduth of South Africa beat Namibia’s Joanivia Bezuidenhout 6-2, 6-1 to book a second round clash against the fourth seeded Shahd Habib of Egypt.
The eighth seeded Claire Jaramba of South Africa beat Nina Sekonopo of Botswana 6-2, 6-0.
The sixth seeded Sophia Fuller of South Africa beat compatriot Mia Leshem 6-4, 6-3, and will now meet the third seeded Dune Vaissaud of France, who beat Annika Kleinhans of South Africa 6-0, 6-0.
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