The final January Configure Express NZMT Circuit Tournament - the Canterbury Championships kicked off today at Wilding Park alongside the finals of the National Teams Event and NZ Wheelchair Tournament.
This NZMT has seen record entries with the main draw and qualifying of the men's full and a near full women's draw. International players who are over for the NZ Junior ITF Circuit are playing utilising the NZMT for match play in NZ prior to the ITF kicking off. Some of the juniors came straight off the court from the 16s to attempt to qualify.
The top three seeds Southern's Hector Garcia Aguilar , Auckland's Adam Lee and Northern's Ari Davis all made it through qualifying. Fourth seed Dima Babenkov (Akld) was beaten by Travis Scott (Wkto) before Auckland based Tem Asafu-Adjaye beat Scott in three sets to qualify.
The main draw has been released tonight with the top seeds who are all ATP ranked - Dan King-Turner (Akld), GD Jones(Akld), Marcus Daniell (Wair) and Mark Nielsen (Nrthn) making the men's line up one of the strongest NZMT yet.
In the women's, the two players consistently making the finals - top seed Kairangi Vano (Akld) and fourth seed Dianne Hollands (Akld) have been drawn in the same half of the draw this time around. Second seed Shona Lee and fellow Aucklander fourth seed Imogen Golder are in the bottom half of the draw.
The seeds are feed through to the quarters, which will see them take the court on Saturday afternoon.
Semi-finals are on Sunday at 10am, followed by the finals (approx 2pm).
The NZ Wheelchair tournament runs through to Sunday (finals day) and the Sunsmart Canterbury ITF Junior Tournament kicks off on Sunday with the qualifying, main draw on Monday.
Qualifying Results:
Round 1
16 Tem Asafu-Adjaye d. Matt Brady 6-4;6-3
16 Travis Scott d. (4) Dima Babenkov 7-6;7-6(8)
16 Ji Hoon Heo d. Chester Espie 6-0;6-1
16 (3) Ari Davis d. Alem Tleshov 6-4;6-3
16 Michael Saunders d. William O'Connell 6-2;6-1
16 (2) Adam Lee d. Andrew Falck 6-3;3-0 Ret (quit)
16 Hamish Duff d. Beau Wills 6-4;5-7;6-2
16 (1) Hector Garcia d. Chris Simich 6-1;6-2
Final Round
QF Tem Asafu-Adjaye d. Travis Scott 4-6;6-3;6-2
QF (3) Ari Davis d. Ji Hoon Heo 4-6;6-4;6-0
QF (2) Adam Lee d. Michael Saunders 6-4;6-4
QF (1) Hector Garcia d. Hamish Duff 6-1;4-6;6-3
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