Tournament top-seeded Janet Koch continued her winning streak with a 6-1 6-2 win over the eighth seed Louise-Mare Botes in their quarterfinal encounter at the Maties Tennis Club in Stellenbosch on Wednesday, to advance to the semi-finals of the SAS Junior ITF 2 tournament.
Koch leads the top four seeds in the singles tournament, who all reached the quarter-finals stage in straight sets wins with Jessica Simpson the most impressive, dropping a single game on her way to a 6-1 6-0 victory over Amy Olivier.
Koch built her game around a reliable serve, and her solid defence did not give her opponent a chance to group enough points to make an impression on the score line. She intends stepping up her game on Thursday with more aggression in attacking plays.
The tournament’s tough foreign contingent continue to impress, with the Ghanaian 2nd-seed Elizabeth Kapari dealing decisively with Huibre-Mare Botes, and Zimbabwe’s fourth-seed Valeria Bhunu beating Serbia’s Vanja Klaric.
Not satisfied with their singles success, Dzenga teams up with Kapari as the tournament’s top-seeded doubles team, and their 6-4 6-4 win over Morgan Dickason paired with Chelsea Steward takes them to the semi-finals, and a chance to lift the trophies in the singles and doubles draws on the cards.
Olivier persists in the tournament with Koch as partner for the doubles contest’s second-seeded pair, after the pair beat the Great Britain pair of Georgina Axon and Louise Ronaldson in a tiebreaker.
Having lost out on their tournament singles chances on Wednesday, the Botes twins formed too potent a doubles pair, comforting beating Manuela Huckfeldt and Eunice Rohlandt to progress to the semi-finals, where Namibian Lize-Elfrida Moolman teams up with Katie Poluta for the final pair, having beaten Kiana Neethling and Nina van der Berg to progress.
Live scoring: Live scoring by Altech will be available for the semi-finals and finals of the tournament on the Tennis SA website.
Singles Quarterfinal Results on Day 3 of the SAS Junior ITF 2, an International Tennis Federation Junior Grade 5 tournament at the Maties Tennis Club in Stellenbosch on Wednesday, 24 October: 1-Janet Koch bt 8-Louise-Mare Botes 6-1 6-2 4-Valeria Bhunu (Zim) bt Vanja Klaric (Srb) 6-0 6-3 3-Jessica Simpson bt Amy Olivier 6-1 6-0 2-Elizabeth Kapari (Gha) bt 6-Huibre-Mare Botes 6-1 6-3 Doubles First Round: Morgan Dickason/Chelsea Steward bt Mia Aleksic/Flyora Shiyanova (Rus) 6-3 6-3 Kiana Neethling/Nina van der Berg bt 4-Vanja Klaric (Srb)/Marli van Heerden 3-6 6-1 [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][13-11] Doubles Quarterfinal: 1-Nicole Dzenga (Zim)/Elizabeth Kapari (Gha) bt Morgan Dickason/Chelsea Steward 6-4 6-4 3-Huibre-Mare Botes/Louise-Mare Botes bt Manuela Huckfeldt/Eunice Rohlandt 6-2 6-0 Lize-Elfrida Moolman (Nam)/Katie Poluta bt Kiana Neethling/Nina van der Berg 6-4 6-2 2-Janet Koch/Amy Olivier bt Georgina Axon/Louise Ronaldson (GBR) 5-7 6-2 [10-7] First Round Results on Day 2 of the SAS Junior ITF 2, an International Tennis Federation Junior Grade 5 tournament at the Maties Tennis Club in Stellenbosch on Tuesday, 23 October: Emmanuelle de Beer (Mri) bt Kirsty Orton 6-0 6-1 Marnelle Boshoff bt Flyora Shiyanova (Rus) 2-6 6-1 6-4 8-Louise-Mare Botes bt Nina van der Berg 7-6(5) 6-1 Katie Poluta bt Minette van Vreden 6-3 6-1 7-Marli van Heerden bt Georgina Axon (GBR) 6-3 4-6 6-4 5-Nicole Dzenga (Zim) bt Danielle du Plooy 7-5 6-2 Louise Ronaldson (GBR) bt Kiana Neethling 6-0 6-1 Lize-Elfrida Moolman (Nam) bt Mabru Uys 6-0 2-6 7-6(7) Second Round Results on Day 2: 1-Janet Koch bt Emmanuelle de Beer (Mri) 6-1 6-2 8-Louise-Mare Botes bt Marnelle Boshoff 6-3 3-6 6-2 4-Valeria Bhunu (Zim) bt Katie Poluta 6-1 6-2 Vanja Klaric (Srb) bt 7-Marli van Heerden 6-1 6-1 Amy Olivier bt 5-Nicole Dzenga (Zim) 5-7 6-3 6-2 3-Jessica Simpson bt Louise Ronaldson (Gbr) 6-2 6-1 6-Huibre-Mare Botes bt Lize-Elfrida Moolman (Nam) 6-1 6-2 2-Elizabeth Kapari (Gha) bt Morgan Dickason 6-2 6-4 First-Round Doubles Results on Day 2: 1-Nicole Dzenga (Zim)/Elizabeth Kapari (Gha) bt Danica Brewer/Cindy Dorrington 6-1 6-2 3-Huibre-Mare Botes/Louise-Mare Botes bt Valeria Bhunu (Zim)/Emmanuelle de Beer (Mri) 6-3 1-6 [13-11] Manuela Huckfeldt/Eunice Rohlandt bt Sian-Frances Crowder (GBR)/Kirsty Orton 4-6 6-3 [10-7] Lize-Elfrida Moolman (Nam)/Katie Poluta bt Caitlin Herb/Lindsay Truscott 6-1 6-2 Georgina Axon/Louise Ronaldson (GBR) bt Danielle du Plooy/Marsha-Ann van Rensburg 6-0 6-2 2-Janet Koch/Amy Olivier bt Maxine Bateman/Minette van Vreden 6-0 6-4 First Round Results on Day 1 of the SAS Junior ITF 2 (ITF Junior Grade 5 Tournament) at the Maties Tennis Club in Stellenbosch, on Monday, 22 October, 2012: 1-Janet Koch bt Danica Brewer 6-2 6-0 4-Valeria Bhunu (Zim) bt Mia Aleksic 6-1 6-0 Amy Olivier bt Caitlin Herb 6-1 7-5 3-Jessica Simpson bt Lindsay Truscott 6-1 6-1 6-Huibre-Mare Botes bt Dominique West (Walkover due to injury) 2-Elizabeth Kapari (Gha) bt Maxine Bateman 6-4 7-5 Morgan Dickason bt Chelsea Steward 2-6 6-4 6-2 Caitlin Herb bt Amy Olivier 6-1 7-5 Vanja Klaric (Sbr) bt Jone Kruger 6-1 6-2
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