MICHAEL Major Jr, coming off his double championship victory at the FOCOL Junior Tennis Tournament held recently in Grand Bahama, won his opening match in the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s IC Junior Tennis Challenge at the National Tennis Center.
The tournament is being played between players from the Bahamas, Canada and the United States of America.
Top seed Major Jr, a 16-year-old student of Windsor Academy at Albany, won his opening match yesterday against Edward Stan of Canada in set scores of 1-6, 6-2, 10-7.
Major Jr later teamed up with William McCartney, but they lost 6-3, 0-6, 6-10 to the Canadian dup of Alec Anghel and Edward Stan in their doubles match.
In other results on the boys’ side, Anghel defeated McCartney 6-2, 6-0, American Stiles Brockett def. Bahamian Jerald Carroll 6-1, 7-5 and American Jonah Hill def. Bahamian Jackson Mactaggart 6-0, 6-0.
In girls’ action, Canadian Emma Tutoveanu def. Bahamian Sierra Rodgers 6-0, 6-1, American Clara Zou def. Bahamian BreAnn Ferguson 6-0, 6-1 and American Shivanni Selvan def. Bahamian Saphirre Ferguson 6-0, 6-1.
Following the tournament. Major Jr will travel to Kingston, Jamaica to participate in the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors Tournament November 14-18.
It’s the second leg of the tournament that got started with the first event this week.
The tournament is scheduled to end after today’s session which starts at 9am.
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