Live stream: Watch the Tennis Australian Junior Teams Championships Under-15s

NSW has finished empty-handed in both deciders after Victoria (boys) and Queensland (girls) made life extra tough at the U15 National Teams Tennis Championships. Check out the REPLAYS.

Queensland have completed a dirty day for NSW by claiming the girls’ leg of the Under-15 National Teams Tennis Championships on the back of a classy doubles display.

Forced to take it to the deciding doubles match after the two states split the singles rubbers one-all, the Queenslanders proved too strong as they raced to a straight-sets victory.

The 6-4, 6-4 result and subsequent grand final defeat was a bitter pill for NSW as the state also came up short in the boys’ decider.

Gina Cha and Georgia Campbell set the tone early in the doubles against Vesna Marinkov and Jizelle Sibai when they took out the opening set 6-4.

DAY 4 REPLAYS

NSW v Queensland - Girls

Tori Russell (QLD) vs Emilie Chen (NSW)

Georgia Campbell (QLD) v Jizelle Sibai (NSW)

NSW v Victoria - Boys

Nikolas Baker (VIC) vs Har Abir Sekhon (NSW)

Ymerali Ibraimi (VIC) vs Ethan Domingo (NSW)

DAY 3 REPLAYS

Queensland v Victoria (Boys)

Ymerali Ibrami (VIC) v Heaton Pann (QLD)

Nikolas Baker (VIC) vs Lucas Hann (QLD)

NSW v ACT (Girls)

Brooke Komorowski/Vesna Marinkov (NSW) v Britta Russell (ACT)/Jasmeet Goraya (ACT)

Vesna Marinkov (NSW) vs Britta Russell (ACT)

Brooke Komorowski (NSW) vs Jasmeet Goraya (ACT)

DAY FOUR ROUND-UP CONTINUED

They then raced out to a 3-0 lead in the second set before NSW fought back to tie it up at 4-4.

But the Queensland pair was having none of it, as they held serve and then broke NSW in the very next game to claim the match in 1hr17min.

Earlier, Campbell overcame Sibai in three sets to give Queensland first blood in the singles.

Campbell and Sibai waged a fierce battle in the opening set, with the former emerging on top in a tiebreaker.

Sibai then found plenty to level the sets at one-all with a 6-3 return in the second before Campbell returned the favour in the third to claim the match.

Emilie Chen would level up the grand final with a demolition job of Tori Russell in the second singles match-up.

It was all one-way traffic as Chen never allowed her opponent to get into the match, winning easily 6-4, 6-0.

The doubles would be of a similar vein as Queensland took in consecutive sets.

Victoria’s Ymerali Ibraimi and Nikolas Baker have lived up to their top seed ranking with a dominant 2-0 victory against NSW in the boys’ grand final.

With the John Reid Cup at stake on the Gold Coast, the highly rated Victorians proved too classy for a spirited New South Wales outfit.

Nikolas Baker was pushed hard by Har Abir Sekhon in an entertaining match played mostly from the baseline before emerging with a 6-3 5-7 6-2 result.

A fired up Sekhon threw everything at Baker, but the Victorian’s calm head prevailed as Sekhon became more and more frustrated as the contest wore on.

Sekhon staged a thrilling comeback in the second set when Baker was serving for the match at 5-4.

Winning that game and the next two, Sekhon looked in total control when he took the set 7-5.

But Baker’s composure in the deciding set proved the difference as he broke his opponent twice en route to victory.

Earlier, rising star Ymerali Ibraimi was too powerful for Ethan Domingo, winning in straight sets.

Ibraimi worked hard in the first set to gain ascendancy, taking it 7-5 before racing through the second one for a 6-2 result.

PREVIEW

The coverage of the Under-15 National Teams Tennis Championships continues today, with all the finals action at KDV Sport on the Gold Coast.

KTV will showcase two state v state match-ups from courts 1 and 2, with the girls showdown between NSW and Queensland while NSW will face the impressive Victorian team in the boys.

DAY 3 ROUND-UP

On Saturday, Queensland’s Lucas Han would have walked off the court knowing he threw everything he could at Victorian Nikolas Baker in the boys semifinal.

Baker was pushed in the opening set before winning the match in three sets, claiming a 6-7 6-2 6-1 match.

Han lost the opening break in the first set but clawed it back to take it to a tie-breaker in the opening set, eventually winning it 7-4 in the tie-break to claim a 7-6 set.

But it was all Baker from there who used the court to his full advantage with incredible use of the lines and depth shots.

Baker continually owned the second and third set as he spent majority of his time centred at the back of the base line while forcing Han to run from tram line to tram line.

DAY 2 REPLAYS

Heaton Pann/William Genberg (Queensland) vs George Goddard/Zaviour Targett (Tasmania)

Scarlett Dattoli/Ruby Ward (Victoria) v Georgia Campbell/Gina Cha (Queensland)

Replay: Gurmanat Sandhu (Victoria) v Tori Russell (Queensland)

Replay: Scarlett Dattoli (Victoria) v Georgia Campbell (Queensland)

DAY 2 ROUND-UP

Queensland’s leading ladies have pulled off a brilliant fight back to set themselves up for finals action at the Tennis Australia Junior Teams Championships on the Gold Coast.

The home side have clawed their way through the rounbd stages undefeated after pulling out all the stops in an epic tie against Victoria on Friday.

The Queenslanders had to reach deep down into the never-say-die attitude which has typified the state on the sporting stage, and it was never as evident as during Tori Russell’s epic third set comeback in the second singles clash.

After dropping the second set of her clash with Gurmanat Kaur Sandhu 6-1, and staring down the barrel of losing the best-of-three tie in straight matches, Russell found an extra gear to come over the top of her rival in 11-9 in an epic tiebreaker set.

It set the tone for the doubles match decider, which like the two previous singles games, was also forced to a deciding tie-breaker set after a stiring mid-match momentum shift.

In the end it was the Queensland team of Geina Cha and Georgina Campbell who managed to keep their composure late in the match to walk away with a tournament-defining 6-3, 1-6, 10-6 win.

It was double delight for the maroons on Friday, with the boys under-15 side cruising to a fantastic 3-0 win over Tasmania in their afternoon tie.

While the two singles contests had to be moved from the show court, due to the nearly four-and-a-half hour girls tie, the Queenslanders managed to bring the night home with a brilliant doubles display.

William Genberg and Heaton Pann joined forces to topple the Tasmanian team of George Goddard and Zaviour Targett in straight sets 6-0, 6-1.

All three matches were finished in straight sets by the Queenslanders, as they bounced back in a big way after going down to South Australia 2-1 earlier in the day.

DAY 1 REPLAYS

WA v South Australia (Girls)

Karin Hiramatsu & Elena Manoj (WA) vs Taylor Glennon & Jia Shah (SA)

Sara Nikolic (WA) vs Taylor Glennon (SA)

Victoria v WA (Boys)

Nikolas Baker/Lachlan King (Vic) v Sehun Park/Benjamin Galvao (WA)

Nikolas Baker (Vic) v Sehun Park (WA)

Ymerali Ibraimi (Vic) v Nemanja Savic (WA) (Second set only)

DAY 1 ROUND-UP

Top seed boys side Victoria have made an early statement in the race for the John Reid Cup at the Under-15 National Teams Championship on the Gold Coast.

Singles stars Ymerali Ibraimi and Nikolas Baker made brilliant starts to the tournament, as the Victorians outlasted a valiant Western Australia 2-1 in their opening round tie.

Ibraimi proved too strong for Western Australia’s Nemanja Savic in the opening game, storming home to a 6-1, 6-2 win.

Baker than turned up the intentisty to take the tie in straight matches when he dispatched of Sehun Park 6-2, 6-2 in straight sets in a blistering match.

The Western Australians showed their resiliency to fight back in an epic doubles contest with all three sets going to a tiebreaker.

In the other day one tie on the show court at KDV Sports, Western Australia’s womens side powered past South Australia 3-0.

Sara Nikolic had to fight tooth and nail in a third-set comeback win over Taylor Glennon, beating her rival 10-7 in the final set tiebreaker.

From there it was smooth sailing for the girls from the west with Elena Manoj winning her singles clash in straight sets before partnering with Karin Hiramatsu to take the doubles contest.

PREVIEW

NSW will pack an almighty punch when they hit the court to defend their Under-15 National Teams Championships girls crown.

The only problem plaguing team manager Olivia Ley, just which of her star-studded trio she puts on the court first.

The Under-15 teams championship will be exclusively live streamed on KommunityTV, with the best action from the KDV Sport show court streamed every day from June 27-June 30.

The sky blues have brought out the big guns with two-thirds of their champion Under-13 side from last year, Jizelle Sibai and Brooke Komorowski, joining forces with Emilie Chen on the Gold Coast.

Chen has had a sizzling start to her year, winning the Australian Open Asia-Pacific Elite Trophy in January, the Junior Claycourt Nationals in April and competing on the international junior circuit in the summer.

“They make a great team, each of them has had a fantastic first half of the year,” Ley said.

“Them being the team that represents NSW is very exciting.

“The hardest job as a manager will be working out how we play them. It will go on past results a bit, whoever is feeling the freshest and who wants to really play.

“It can change on a dime really. There is a lot more thought than people realise that goes into the make up each time.”

After the success of last week’s 13&Under event, Tennis Australia and KTV will be showcasing the top 15&U players from the Gold Coast over ther next four days.

The Teams Championships will be hotly-contested with NSW one of the early favourites for the girls crown.

They will face stiff opposition from the likes of Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia.

The sky blues have also assembled an impressive three-man line-up to contest the boys title, which includes friendly rivals Ethan Domingo and Flynn Coventry-Searle.

Victoria will be the favourites for the boys title, however South Australia and hometown heroes Queensland, will bring some formidable firepower to the nationals.

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