Canberra’s Charlie Camus has won the biggest title of his young career taking out the 12/u boys singles final at the Australian Claycourt Championships today at the Canberra Tennis Centre.
The second seeded proved too strong for doubles partner Pavle Marinkov (NSW) claiming a hard fought 6-3 3-6 6-2 victory to claim his maiden national title.
It capped off an outstanding week for Camus, with the 11-year-old winning the doubles title yesterday with Marinkov.
“It feels pretty good to win my first ever national title especially here in my hometown Canberra,” Camus said.
“I think I played really disciplined and kept my cool and didn’t lose my head throughout the week which helped with my results.
“My goals as a junior tennis player is to one day win a Grand Slam and represent Australia in a Davis Cup.”
Camus will now play in the Tennis World Canberra Junior Open, before heading to Sydney next week for the Sydney Age.
In other ACT results, Marqaylar Tere equal 15th position, Charlie Snow finished in 28th, and Stellan Lindrud finished in 31st position.
In an event first, players, officials and parents also took part in the #HandshakeChallenge, a new initiative launched by former South African Davis Cup player and coach, John-Laffnie de Jager, the challenge is designed to increase sportsmanship and fair play on the court by asking participants in any sport to shake hands before and after competition.
In addition to players shaking hands before the start of the match, parents/guardians and coaches were also invited to step on-court before the start of the match and shake hands and listen to the pre-match instructions from the chair umpire or court supervisor.
Tournament director Mark Pead believes the initiative was a great element to a highly successful week.
“It was great to be the first national Australian tennis tournament to incorporate the Handshake Challenge into competition. The concept is great for encouraging sportsmanship between parents, participants, officials and everyone involved at the event and we are proud of everyone who graciously took part in the challenge.”
“The overall event was a huge success and I’d like to congratulate and thank all of the players, volunteers, staff, public and sponsors for getting on board another great Claycourt Championships here in Canberra,” Pead continued.
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