Jor­dane Dook­ie moved in­to the round of 32 on Mon­day af­ter on­ly her first day of the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion’s (ITF)/Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean JITIC J4 Grade III Tour­na­ment in Mex­i­co.

She swept aside Maria Me­lo of Mex­i­co in straight sets 6-2, 6-2 in the Girls’ Sin­gles, mov­ing her up a notch in the play-off. The tour­na­ment, con­sid­ered her most dif­fi­cult tour­na­ment to date, due to the lev­el of play, pits her against some of the top play­ers in the world.

On­ly last year, Dook­ie soared up the ITF rank­ings by mov­ing from 2,304th to 1,297th when she reached the quar­ter­fi­nals of the three-leg ITF Ju­nior Cir­cuit at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­ter (NRC) in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua.

To­day she will take on an­oth­er Mex­i­can Maria Do­minique Fuen­za­l­i­da Hi­gare­da for a place in the quar­ter­fi­nals. The Mex­i­can had an easy stroll on her col­li­sion course with Dook­ie, by get­ting a bye yes­ter­day.

Dook­ie was al­so sched­uled to spring in­to ac­tion in the dou­bles yes­ter­day with her part­ner Fer­nan­da San­doval of Mex­i­co. To date, the pair has proven to be a force to be reck­oned with since their jour­ney to the fi­nal of the J4 tour­ney in April in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic be­fore los­ing.