T&T’s Make­da Bain con­tin­ued her rich vein of form when she breezed in­to the semi­inals of the Girls Un­der-14 Sin­gles in the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean Ten­nis Con­fed­er­a­tion (COTECC)-Trinidad In­ter­na­tion­al Ju­nior (U-14) Ten­nis Tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre, Or­ange Grove Road, Tacarigua, Monday.

The win­ner of the sin­gles ti­tle and dou­bles with Suri­name’s Cy­belle Fer­ri­er in the Bar­ba­dos leg of the com­pe­ti­tion last week­end at the Ray­mond Forde Na­tion­al Ten­nis Cen­tre in St Michael, Bain stayed on course for the girls U-14 sin­gles crown on home soil when she swept past Sofia Gutier­rez of El Sal­vador 6-1, 6-1 in her quar­ter­fi­nal and will face coun­try­woman Cher­dine Sylvester in the semi­fi­nals to­day af­ter the lat­ter hum­bled St Vin­cent and The Grenadines’ Danelle Kennedy 6-1, 6-2.

On the oth­er side of the draw, the sec­ond-ranked Cyra Ram­cha­ran, the run­ner-up to Bain in Bar­ba­dos last week, whipped fel­low T&T play­er Karis­sa Mo­hammed 6-3, 6-1 in her quar­ter­fi­nal to set up a meet­ing with Fer­ri­er, who won her quar­ter­fi­nal 6-0, 6-0 over lo­cal en­trant Samiyah Mo­hammed.

Al­so at Tacarigua, in the Trin­i­ty Ju­niors Un­der-12 Trin­i­ty Cup, top-ranked Eli Paty and Dhruv Ramb­ha­jan set up a meet­ing for the Boys U-12 Sin­gles ti­tle, while in the Girls Un­der-12 cham­pi­onship match, top-seed­ed Tei­jha Welling­ton faces Anaya Roberts.

This was af­ter Paty whipped Ethan Primus 6-1, 6-1, and Ramb­ha­jan up­staged sec­ond-ranked Austin Ward 6-2, 6-3 in the boys semi­fi­nals.

Paty will al­so con­test the dou­bles fi­nal with Ryan Steuart af­ter they beat Har­ri­son Hadeed and Dhruv Ramb­ha­jan 6-0, 6-3 in their semi­fi­nal, while Primus and Austin Ward stopped Ma­lik Bain and Hold­en Hadeed 6-4, 7-5 in the oth­er.

Welling­ton, the run­ner-up in Bar­ba­dos last week­end, over­came St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Nakay­da Cain 6-4, 6-0, while Roberts, the daugh­ter of for­mer Min­is­ter of Sports Anil Roberts, hum­bled sec­ond-ranked Bar­ba­di­an Ava Warn­er 6-0, 4-6, 10-5.

Mon­day’s re­sults

Un­der-14 Di­vi­sion

Boys Sin­gles round-of-16: Christo­pher Khan bt Justin Dun­can 6-1, 6-0; Den­ney Es­ta­va (St Luc) bt Se­bas­t­ian Plim­mer 6-3, 6-1; Oliv­er Har­ra­gin bt No­vak Mal­colm 7-5, 6-2; Jack Brown bt Jay­sean Wells 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.

Boys Sin­gles Con­so­la­tion quar­ter­fi­nals: San­jay Ram­char­i­tar bt Akquin John­son (ST Vin) 6-0, 6-3; Luke Bel­lamy bt Fa­vian Dates 4-6, 6-3, 12-10; Dy­lan Clif­ford bt Ro­han Ram­char­i­tar 6-1, 7-5.

Boys Dou­bles round-of-16: No­vak Mal­colm/Gabriel Man­soon bt Se­bas­t­ian Plim­mer/Cruz Thorn­ton (B’dos) 6-1, 6-2; Ro­han Ram­char­i­tar/San­jay Ram­char­i­tar bt Jaiden Gor­mandy/Akquin John­son (St Vin) 7-5, 6-3.

Girls Sin­gles quar­ter­fi­nals: Make­da Bain bt Sofia Gutier­rez (El Sal) 6-1, 6-1; Cher­dine Sylvester bt Danelle Kennedy (St Vin) 6-1, 6-2; Cyra Ram­cha­ran bt Karis­sa Mo­hammed 6-3, 6-1; Cy­belle Fer­ri­er (Sur) bt Samiyah Mo­hammed 6-0, 6-0.

Girls Sin­gles Con­so­la­tion quar­ter­fi­nals: Keyah Roberts bt Adai Hope (B’dos) 6-3, 3-6, 10-4.

Girls Dou­bles quar­ter­fi­nals: Cyra Ram­cha­ran/Suri Ram­cha­ran bt Adai Hope (B’dos)/Gabriel­la Sals­bacj (Cur) 6-4, 6-3; Karis­sa Mo­hammed/Samiyah Mo­hammed bt Danelle Kennedy (St Vin)/Keyah Roberts 6-3, 4-6, 10-3.

Un­der-12 Di­vi­sion

Boys Sin­gles Main Draw semi­fi­nals: Eli Paty bt Ethan Primus 6-1, 6-1; Dhruv Ramb­ha­jan bt Austin Ward 6-2, 6-2.

Boys Sin­gles Con­so­la­tion semi­fi­nals: Har­ri­son Hadeed bt Oliv­er Khan 3-5, 4-2, 10-5; Ma­lik Bain bt Hold­en Hadeed 2-4, 4-2, 10-3.

Boys Dou­bles semi­fi­nals: Ethan Primus/Austin Ward bt Ma­lik Bain/Hold­en Hadeed 6-4, 7-5; Eli Paty/Ryan Steuart bt Har­ri­son Hadeed/Dhruv Ramb­ha­jan. 6-0, 6-3.

Girls Sin­gles Main Draw semi­fi­nals: Anaya Roberts bt Ava Warn­er (B’dos) 6-0, 4-6, 10-5; Tei­jha Welling­ton bt Nakay­da Cain (St Vin) 6-4, 6-0.

Girls Sin­gles Con­so­la­tion semi­fi­nals: Ama­ia Wa­ter­stone (St Vin) bt Josey Khan 4-1, 4-2.

Girls Dou­bles Round Robin: Nakay­da Cain (St Vin)/Ama­ia Wa­ter­stone (St Vin) bt Suri Bis­nath/Ava Warn­er (B’dos) 6-4, 6-2.

<Walk­er wins, Dougdeen los­es in ITF U-18 open­ers>

T&T’s Shiloh Walk­er and Ni­rav Dougdeen en­joyed mixed re­sults in their open­ing match­es when the J30 In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion World Ten­nis Tour Tour­na­ment served off at the Ray­mond Forde Na­tion­al Ten­nis Cen­tre in St Michael, Bar­ba­dos, yes­ter­day.

Walk­er ad­vance to the sec­ond round of the girls draw when she bat­tled past Mic­ah Austin 6-4, 6-4 and will meet Cana­da’s Jolie Mas­tre for a spot in the quar­ter­fi­nals while Dougdeen, the lone T&T play­er in the draw went un­der to Great Britain’s Levi Tay­lor 1-6, 0-6.