Top seeds Alison Bai (WTA 381) and Matthew Barton (ATP 382) have both had comfortable opening round wins as they started their campaigns in the ACT Open Platinum Australian Money Tournament (AMT). The event held at the Canberra Tennis Centre has $10,000 prizemoney on offer and has attracted some of the top players from around Australia. Canberra players Jake Okines and James Frawley caused the biggest upsets in the Men’s draws taking out the number 2 and 4 seeds respectively, while Imogen Clews took out the number 6 Women’s seed.
In the Women’s draw, Alison Bai was convincing in her first round match against Wollongong’s Brooke Winley defeating her 6-1, 6-3. Bai will face number 8 seed Gabrielle O’Gorman in the quarter finals tomorrow. Canberra’s Imogen Clews was also impressive defeating fellow Canberran Chorlida Kang in the first round, before taking out the number 6 seed Sonja Balic in straight sets. Canberra Velocity player and number 2 seed, Tyra Calderwood, posted a 6-3, 6-3 win over qualifier Claudia Furdi. It was a relatively comfortable day for the Women’s seeds with the remainder moving into the quarter finals.
In the Men’s draw, top seed Matthew Barton was clinical in his match against qualifier Antoni Trajkovski, only dropping two games in his 6-1, 6-1 victory. Barton will face Glen Dawes in tomorrow’s quarter final after Dawes upset number 7 seed Brian Tran. Canberra player Jake Okines was impressive with a straight sets win over Tomislav Papac in the first round. In the second round his faced second seed and world number 1217, Daniel Guccione with Okines causing the upset of the day after going up a set and 3-2 before Guccione was forced to retire with an injury. Fellow ACT player, James Frawley also caused a major upset, defeating number 4 seed Jason Taylor in an epic 3 set match, 6-1, 6-7, 7-5. Frawley will face qualifier Pearse Dolan for a place in the semi finals.
Quarter finals and semi finals will take place at the Canberra Centre tomorrow from 9am.
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