Tennis Victoria\u2019s Junior UTR State\nChampionships ended yesterday with 19 Junior Tennis Players\ncrowned State Champions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the first major Junior Tennis Event in Victoria since the easing of\nCOVID restrictions, the 12-day event brought the best young Tennis\ntalent in the state to Bendigo in the Wheelchair, 12\/U, 14\/U, 16\/U\nand 18\/U Boys and Girls disciplines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All players used the UTR Junior State Championships as a\nspringboard for the summer of Tennis ahead, with valuable match\nplay opportunities in both Singles and Doubles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the pinnacle of the Championships, the Under 18 events, it was US-College commits Enzo Aquiard (Royal Park) and Matthew Bosancic (Brighton) who battled it out in the Boys Singles Final, with Aguiard claiming victory 6-4, 6-4, and 16-year-old rising star Leann Serna (Hume) who won the Under 18 Girls Singles, defeating Jelena Cvijanovic 5-7, 7-5, 10-5.
In the doubles, it was Jemma Carbis (Hume) and Serna who defeated Jelena Cvijanovic and Klaire Elkin. Bosancic and Aguiard teamed up to win the Boys Doubles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over 400 matches were completed across the 12 days of competition where\nplayers enjoyed the chance to test their ability in a round robin competition\nin the group stage, before continuing through a knockout process to find the\nchampions of each age group in Singles and Doubles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The week also saw the rising stars\nof Tennis on show in the 12\/U, 14\/U and 16\/U Singles Championships, as\nwell as the Victorian Wheelchair State Championships <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 12\/U competition saw Rupert Sever (Torquay) defeat\nRoman Filipovic 6-4, 6-1 in the Boys Singles and Ava Beck (Bundoora) steady in\nthe tiebreak to defeat Jasmine Mathew in a close contest in the Girls Singles\nFinal (6-1, 4-6, 10-5). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 16\/U Singles, Stefi Webb (Reservoir) won the Girls Singles 6-4,\n6-1 against Ruby Grace Rothman and Cooper Errey (Ivanhoe)\ndefeated Hanival Kahsay 6-3, 6-0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier in the Championships, the 14\/U\ncompetition saw Isabella Crossman (Echuca) come from a set down to defeat\nGabrielle Villegas in a tie breaker 11-9. The Boys 14\/ U Champion Jarrod Joyce\n(Ballarat) defeated fellow regional player Logan Casey (Horsham) 6-3, 6-4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wheelchair Singles event saw Riley Dumsday (Mornington)\ndefeat Saalim Naser 6-2, 7-6 and the Wheelchair Doubles saw Jin Woodman\n(Sunbury) and Naser come from a set behind to claim victory 4-6, 6-3, 12-10\nagainst Dumsday and Megan Beatty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matches were played in a competitive and respectful manner with\nOfficials very pleased with the level of behaviour and etiquette displayed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nUTR Junior State Championships were run by Tennis Victoria and\ncontribute to the Universal Tennis Rating, a world-recognised Tennis rating\nsystem.
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\nTennis\nVictoria would like to thank the staff and volunteers at\nthe Fosterville Gold (Bendigo) Tennis Centre and the City of\nGreater Bendigo for their support of the Junior UTR State\nChampionships. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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