T&T's Jor­dane Dook­ie had to set­tle for the run­ner-up spot in the Girls' Un­der-14 Sin­gles fi­nal of the Unit­ed States Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion Lev­el Six Ex­treme Ten­nis Acad­e­my af­ter los­ing in straight sets at the Michael Ann Rus­sell Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­ter in Mi­a­mi, Flori­da, USA on Tues­day.

Com­ing up against the top-ranked Gretchen Wolfe in the main draw East Di­vi­sion de­cider, the un-ranked Dook­ie siz­zling form de­sert­ed her as she fell to a 0-4, 2-4 de­feat in a match that was post­poned from Mon­day due to rain.

Speak­ing af­ter her run­ner-up fin­ish Dook­ie ad­mit­ted it was a tough bat­tle.

She said,” I had a tough match in the fi­nals as I played the num­ber one seed. We had a lot of close games but my op­po­nent was able to come out with the win.”

De­spite not se­cur­ing the win, Dook­ie said she was hap­py to com­pete.

She added, “I’m thank­ful for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to be play­ing in the US­TA Tour­na­ment es­pe­cial­ly when it was planned.

“It was a great tour­na­ment as I was able to com­pete against many high-qual­i­ty play­ers and I am now look­ing for­ward to com­pet­ing in the next tour­na­ment in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.”

On Sun­day, Dook­ie de­feat­ed Flori­da’s Michelle Fly­am 5-3, 5-3 in the semi­fi­nal af­ter she ral­lied past sev­enth-ranked Ar­i­ana Gil 4-5(2), 5-3, (8-6) in the quar­ter­fi­nals and sec­ond-ranked Kami­la Cor­rea 4-0, 3-5, 15-13 in the pre­vi­ous round.

In ad­di­tion to her vic­to­ry over Dook­ie in the fi­nal, Wolfe al­so whipped fel­low T&T play­ers Jae­da-Lee Daniel-Joseph 4-1, 4-1 and Bri­ana Har­richa­ran 4-0, 4-0 on her way to the ti­tle match.

Mean­while, in the con­so­la­tion round, Isa­iah Box­ill was a beat­en semi­fi­nal­ist af­ter a straight-set loss as well to Kr­is­hang Bad­w­al, 1-4, 0-4.

Box­hill had start­ed with a 6-0, 6-1 win against Seokhwan Har­ri­son Jang in the round-of-32 fol­lowed by a 4-2, 4-1 beat­ing of sev­enth-ranked Max­i­mo Lop­ina in the last-16, and 5-4 (2), 4-1 thump­ing of Jose Miguel Par­don in the quar­ter­fi­nals.

T&T's Daniel-Joseph shared the U-14 Girls' Plate crown with sec­ond-ranked main draw play­er Kami­la Cor­rea af­ter their match was can­celled due to rain and time con­straints.

In the semi­fi­nals, na­tion­al U-16 and U-16 cham­pi­on Daniel-Joseph blanked Ash­ley Canelon, 4-0, 4-0.

And in the Boys' U-14 North Plate ti­tle match, Kay­den Siewrat­tan and Kale Dal­la Cos­ta shared top ho­n­ours af­ter their fi­nal was can­celled due to poor weath­er and time con­straints to com­plete the com­pe­ti­tion.

Siewarat­tan swept past Jon­nic Wis­niews­ki 4-0, 4-1 and Dal­la Cos­ta out­played Max­i­mo Lop­ina 4-0, 4-2 in their semi­fi­nal match­es af­ter both won their quar­ter­fi­nals by de­fault.

On Sun­day, T&T’s Zach­ery Byng cap­tured the Third Draw (North East) ti­tle in the Boys' U-14 Age-Group with a tough win over Jose Miguel Par­don 5-4 (7-3), 4-2 af­ter he was oust­ed in the main draw quar­ter­fi­nal stage.

The in­volve­ment in the tour­na­ment in the USA for the T&T play­ers came af­ter they had their quest for in­di­vid­u­als ho­n­ours at the Co­pa Mun­do Maya at the Com­ple­jo de Te­nis de la Fed­eración Na­cional de Te­nis de Guatemala, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, come to an abrupt halt on Ju­ly 3 due to the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic. This af­ter a play­er from El Sal­vador test­ed pos­i­tive for the coro­n­avirus.