Perth teen Taylah Preston scooped the ladies’s singles and doubles titles on the Cairns Worldwide this week.
Cairns, Australia, 15 October 2023 | Leigh Rogers
Taylah Preston proved unstoppable on the Cairns Worldwide this week, sweeping each the ladies’s singles and doubles titles.
The promising 17-year-old claimed her third ITF singles title of the season, overcoming Japan’s Yuki Naito 6-4 6-4 within the last.
It’s world No.316 Preston’s second Australian Professional Tour singles title, following a title-winning run in her hometown of Perth final month, and improves her current file to fifteen wins from her previous 17 matches.
Preston’s spectacular type carried over to the doubles courtroom too, profitable her first skilled title alongside 23-year-old compatriot Destanee Aiava.
It’s Aiava’s eleventh profession title and her sixth of the season. The in-form Aiava has gained 5 of those titles in her previous seven occasions, constructing an unbelievable 21-2 win-loss file on this interval.
Within the males’s singles competitors, high seed Omar Jasika was topped champion.
The 26-year-old secured the title with a hard-fought 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4 victory in opposition to eighth-seeded Aussie Jake Delaney within the last.
“I simply wished to play some good tennis,” world No.315 Jasika mentioned. “I performed very well within the first spherical and stored the momentum going.”
That is Jasika’s tenth profession singles title and his second this season.
Aussie duo Jeremy Beale and Thomas Fancutt claimed the boys’s doubles title, overcoming first-time finalist Tomislav Papac and his Chinese language Taipei accomplice Fu Hong-Lim within the last.
The 29-year-old Beale and 28-year-old Fancutt additionally gained an Australian Professional Tour title in Darwin final month.
South Australia is the subsequent cease on the Australian Professional Tour, with Playford internet hosting males’s and girls’s occasions from 22-29 October.
A stellar subject is about to compete in Playford, with entrants together with Ricky Hijikata, Thanasi Kokkinakis and Kimberly Birrell.
Cairns Worldwide 2 finals
Girls’s singles: [4] Taylah Preston (AUS) d [5] Yuki Naito (JPN) 6-4 6-4
Males’s singles: [1] Omar Jasika (AUS) d [8] Jake Delaney (AUS) 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4
Girls’s doubles: [2] Destanee Aiava (AUS)/Taylah Preston (AUS) d Roisin Gilheany (AUS)/Alicia Smith (AUS) 7-6(5) 7-5
Males’s doubles: [1] Jeremy Beale (AUS)/Thomas Fancutt (AUS) d Fu Hong-Lin (TPE)/Tomislav Papac (AUS) 6-4 6-4
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