Pretoria, South Africa – Tennis South Africa (TSA) announced the boys and girls singles seeds and wild-cards for next week Gauteng North Junior ITF international junior tennis tournament.
The tournament, a Grade 4 status event on the international junior tennis circuit, will be played at the Groenkloof Stadium in Pretoria, Tshwane from 23-28 July 2018.
The boys singles top seed is South Africa’s highest world ranked junior Phillip Henning of Bloemfontein who has just returned to South Africa after competing in the European summer circuit including the Junior French and Wimbledon Championships.
Megan Basson of Johannesburg headlines the girls singles. Basson is the reigning Growthpoint national under 16 junior champion.
The Gauteng North Junior ITF is the second of back to back international junior tennis tournaments hosted by TSA during the winter school holiday. The first, the Wanderers Junior ITF is coming to an end this weekend at the Wanderers Sporting Club in Illovo, Johannesburg.
The boys seeds are as follows;
RSA unless stated
1. Phillip Henning
2. Pierre Malan
3. Christiaan Worst
4. Charl Morgan
5. Gerhardt Becker
6. Joubert Klopper
7. Robbie Arends
8. Jordan Coutinho
9. Thabo Ncube (ZIM)
10. Victor Putter
11. Dylan Salton
12. Parker Collins Flores (USA)
13. Tinashe Taruberekera (ZIM)
14. Gerhard Sullward
15. Tsholofelo Tsiang BOT
16. Maj Tomac (SLO)
The girls seeds are as follows;
1. Megan Basson
2. Marne Derckson
3. Delien Kleinhans
4. Linge Steenkamp
5. Lara van Der Merwe
6. Rochelle Pienaar
7. Goerginal Moolman (NAM)
8. Tamsin Hart
The wildcards were announced as follows;
Boys
Andreas Scott, Durther Theron, Devin Badenhorst, Luc Koenig, Francois Van Wyk, Yarona Morule
Girls
Ntokozo Zungu, Jessica Portwig, Carmen Fichardt, Makhosaza Steward
Ends.