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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Stampfli wins, Legall loses in ITF tennis

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T&T's Bre­an­na Stampfli booked a place in­to the quar­ter­fi­nals of the Girls Un­der-18 draw of the Sec­ond In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) Ju­nior cir­cuit at the Shaw Park Ten­nis Courts in To­ba­go yes­ter­day. The fourth seed Fed Cup play­er whipped St Lu­cian Ju­lia D'Au­vergne 6-2, 6-0 in their sec­ond round match-up and will face fifth ranked Erin Faulkn­er (USA) lat­er to­day for a semi­fi­nal spot. Stampfli, who is ranked 504 in the world, got bye in the first round and was the lone lo­cal play­er to get past the sec­ond round. Com­pa­tri­ot and third seed Kan­dis Legall suf­fered a sur­prise lose go­ing down to the un­ranked Amer­i­can Mad­die Pothoff who dom­i­nat­ed the en­counter 6-0, 6-0. Le­gal was not the on­ly top play­er to fall as the num­ber one ranked Russ­ian Ljubov Vazhen­i­na was dis­missed by Jen­na Friedel of the USA 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-3. Lo­cals Caris­sa Ro­dul­fo, Sha­nia Milling­ton, Aryanne Hart-Dixon, Juli­et Camp­bell, Do­minique Coutain, Vik­isha Kel­ly, Makalah Goodridge and Danielle De­venish all bowed out in the first round. Sec­ond ranked Peer­ay Charoen­sirisut­thikul of Thai­land will be favoured to win and qual­i­fied whip­ping Nan­cy Men­ji­var (El Sal­vador) 6-0, 6-0 and will next play Danielle Thomp­son of Ba­hamas who elim­i­nat­ed Ba­jan Kiana Mar­shall 6-2, 6-2.

Friedel will play San­jana Sud­hir of In­dia. Sud­hir eased past Cherise Slo­combe of Bar­ba­dos in their Round 2 con­test 6-1, 6-0. Pothoff will next square off against sev­enth seed Eliz­a­beth Suther­land (USA). The Amer­i­can got by D'Jeri Ray­mond of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da 6-0, 6-1. In Boys U-18 ac­tion, lo­cal play­ers again had a tough day as home-boy Ty Abra­ham was the on­ly T&T to sur­vive the first round on Mon­day. Play­ing on his home court Abra­ham was lead­ing sixth seed Bar­ba­di­an Matthew Hutchin­son tak­ing the first set 6-0 be­fore the vis­i­tor re­tired. Abra­ham lost to Turkey's Sinan Orhon late yes­ter­day in their sec­ond round en­counter 6-4, 6-1. Abra­ham's twin broth­er, Josh, the eighth seed, and sev­enth seed Ju­lian Greig were al­so elim­i­nat­ed. Josh lost to Cana­di­an William Tutecky in a close first round en­counter (6-4, 7-5) while Greig fell to Vic­tor of Gure­vich of the USA (6-3, 6-3), al­so in the first round. Scott Lanser, Jabari David­son, Ibrahim Mo­hammed, Ross Hack­shaw, Gi­an­luc Robin­son, Kyrel Trim, Che Sanchez and Elan Mendes were beat­en in their match­es. Mendes put up a fight in his bat­tle with sec­ond seed Yan­nik James of Grena­da but went out 6-4, 6-4. Trim was brushed aside by Ital­ian fourth seed Ia­copo Bel­tramo (6-1, 6-1) and third seed Stephan Frl­jan­ic of Cana­da whipped Mo­hammed (6-1, 6-0). Top seed Mo­hd Merzu­ki of Malaysia got his cam­paign off with a win over Russ­ian Se­men Tripol­skiy (7-5, 6-2).

Em­ma-Rose Tre­strail is one of three lo­cal play­ers in­to the girls U-14 semi­fi­nals. Top seed Tre­strail got a bye in the first round will play com­pa­tri­ot Lily Stauble who whipped an­oth­er T&T play­er Anya King (6-0, 6-0). Joni-Mae Am­mon will square off against Bar­ba­di­an sec­ond seed Jaimie Lewis in the sec­ond se­mi. Am­mon ad­vanced to the fi­nal four beat­ing an­oth­er lo­cal Em­ma Davis (6-2, 6-1). Je­lani David­son is one of two T&T play­ers in­to the boys U-14 semis. The num­ber four seed got by Jua­nal­do Greig 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 in an all lo­cal match up and will bat­tle top seed Taqel Lewis of St. Lu­cia (6-1, 6-1) in to­day's first semis. The sec­ond match is al­so a T&T/St. Lu­cia face-off. Lo­cal lad Nabeel Mo­hammed up­set sec­ond seed Tji­mon Louisy in a en­ter­tain­ing bat­tle 7-6(3), 4-6, 7-6 (5). There was ac­tion in the boys and girls U-18 and boys U-14 dou­bles first round yes­ter­day, with the quar­ter­fi­nals set for to­day. Am­mon and Tre­strail were card­ed to face Davis and Stauble in the girls U-14 dou­ble fi­nals. Daynelle Des Vi­gnes cap­tured the first ti­tle of the one-week tour­na­ment which be­gan on Sat­ur­day. The To­ba­go play­er out­played an­oth­er T&T play­er Isha­la Go­sine 4-0, 4-0. Ac­tion con­tin­ues from 9 o'clock this morn­ing.


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