Jin Woodman has confirmed he is a star within the making after successful three titles on the 2024 Australian Wheelchair Tennis Nationwide Championships.
Melbourne, VIC, 13 November 2024 | Jackson Mansell
For the previous decade, followers have marvelled on the abilities of Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson who’ve dominated on the world stage. They’ve paved the best way for the following wave of stars, and it’s starting to return to fruition.
Because the Australian Open’s inaugural junior wheelchair tournaments draw nearer, the hosts are strengthening their illustration. Final weekend, the Australian Wheelchair Tennis Nationwide Championships hosted its greatest area for the junior singles competitors since 2019.
With 4 Australians ranked contained in the boys’ and women’ prime 10 – three boys and one woman – a aggressive area of 12 assembled.
Finally, 15-year-old Jin Woodman defeated second seed Yassin Hill within the closing to assert his sixth junior title of the 12 months.
In a dominant weekend for the teenager, Woodman additionally gained the quad singles and quad doubles titles with out dropping a set in both occasion. Most impressively, he and accomplice Finn Broadbent didn’t drop a single sport of their quad doubles marketing campaign.
The Victorian has achieved a rare quantity in a short interval.
The ITF boys’ world No.4 has taken his complete titles tally to 14 after his efforts at Melbourne Park. Additionally ranked world No.22 within the quad singles rankings, Woodman is at present the youngest participant within the prime 25.
With Woodman, Hill, boys No.8 Benjamin Wenzel and women No.10 Isla Gillespie, Australia has a powerful junior contingent for Australian Open 2025.
Within the open-age competitions, Australian males’s No.1 Anderson Parker defended his 2023 title, prevailing in opposition to Ben Weekes 6-4 7-6(7) within the males’s singles closing.
It marked a profitable weekend for Parker, who additionally paired with Weekes to win the open males’s doubles silverware. The Australian Paralympics duo misplaced only one sport within the closing to assert their third trophy collectively this season.
Within the ladies’s singles occasion, Hayley Slocombe made it back-to-back titles, successful all three of her round-robin matches. The world No.67 paired with Gillespie to defeat Marita Morgan and Ruth Gallagher and prevail within the open ladies’s doubles.
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