The ac­tion will be riv­et­ing at the courts on Vic­to­ria Av­enue on Fri­day in Port-of-Spain as com­peti­tors seek to inch clos­er to cap­tur­ing the re­spec­tive sin­gles ti­tles up for grabs.

On Fri­day, Dex­ter Ma­hase, Ki­no Fran­cis, Lu­ca Sham­si and Ronald Robin­son all booked their spot to se­cure ex­tend­ed play in to­day's round of 16 sin­gles match-ups. Ma­hase who start­ed his bat­tle in march of 2020 and held a 6-2 first set lead over Saqiv Williams, fin­ished off the job with a swift 6-1 fi­nal in­side 30 min­utes.

He will take on the 3rd seed Ke­shan Moonasar on Court 3 from 9 am.

Ki­no Fran­cis who al­so had a con­tin­u­a­tion of his 2020 match with Beck­ham Sylvester re­sumed from deuce in the first set, to claim his 6-0, 6-2 win. Fran­cis who won the Chetwyn sin­gles ti­tle re­cent­ly and was de­feat­ed in the fi­nal of the Duke's Ten­nis Acad­e­my Tour­na­ment said he pre­pared well and is ready to go all the way. He will have to be at his best as he will come up against 4th seed Richard Chung who al­ready has the the tour­na­ment's Men's Dou­bles ti­tle un­der his belt.

Mean­while, 15-year-old Lu­ca Sham­si was un­for­giv­ing in his 6-0, 6-0 tri­umph over Zach­ery Byng, to progress to take on, the 43-year-old play­er coach Dun­stan De­noon out of To­ba­go.

Sham­si who lost in the Boy's Un­der-18 fi­nal of the RBC Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment in De­cem­ber, said he is un­der no pres­sure tak­ing on the 7th seed who 27 years his se­nior. He is go­ing out to play his game, gain the ex­pe­ri­ence and have fun. Ronald Robin­son and Adisa Ide­mu­dia was the last match to be com­plet­ed on the first day back out as the two bat­tled till the end.

Robin­son pre­vailed 7-5, 6-3 to as­sume his place to­day to take on the 5th seed Ethan Wong.

The play­ers that will fea­ture in Sat­ur­day's pro­gramme are the top seed Nabeel Mo­hammed, who will square off with Liu Chin and sec­ond seed Akiel Duke has a date with Joshua Boyce.

The two out­stand­ing match­es which will get go­ing around 10:30 am brings to­geth­er To­ba­go's Vaughn Wil­son who's the 6th seed bat­tling Tim Pasea and the 8th seed Se­bas­t­ian Sylvester clash with Nathan Valdez.

The women will have their time to shine in the af­ter­noon rub­ber match­es from 1 pm when the quar­ter­fi­nals are ex­pect­ed to serve off.

Top seed Carlista Mo­hammed will match skills with Zara Ghu­ra and third seed Cameron Wong will tan­gle with Jor­dane Dook­ie.

Al­so, sec­ond seed Os­eny­onye Nwoko­lo, who is fresh off her RBC Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment Un­der-18 Girl's Sin­gles suc­cess, will face Maria Hon­ore as they chase a se­mi-fi­nal spot, while fourth seed Aal­isha Alex­is and El­la Car­ring­ton will face off in the oth­er bat­tle.