Live stream: Catch six days of action from the 2024 Australian Junior Hardcourt Championships

Three top seeds locked up quarter final appearances at one of Tennis Australia’s top junior tournaments, while a Queenslander’s hot start drew to a close. Check out the schedule. Catch the REPLAYS.

A day after stunning top-seed Ren Asai in the first round of the Australian Hardcourt Championships in Adelaide, Queenslander Antoni Luo exited in the under-14 boys round of 16 in a hard-fought straight set loss to South Australian Ashton Lim.

Lim, who is partnered with Asai in the doubles draw, fought his way through to the singles quarter finals with a 7-6 (9-7), 7-5 win over Luo on Thursday.

With the first set going down to a tiebreaker, it proved a see-sawing second set as both players broke each other on multiple occasions.

Lim looked in control early, breaking Luo in the first game but the Queenslander struck back soon after to make it 2-2 before breaking again to go 2-4 up.

But Lim stayed in the fight to force it back to 5-all before holding his nerve to close both the set, 7-5, and the match.

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Meanwhile, top under-12 seed Cleo Taylor booked a quarter final berth but it was not without an early fight by Kaitlyn Poon.

Taylor won in straight sets, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, despite giving up an early set point.

With Taylor looking to close the first set, on 6-5 and 40-30, Poon saved the set point before breaking Taylor to bring on the tiebreaker.

But Taylor soon settled to easily wrap up the first set with a 7-4 tiebreaker, as well as the second set 6-3, to set up a quarter final match against five-seed Ayumi Ito.

In other matches, under-12 and under-14 second seeds Aleksandr Kharkov and Jake Spurrell breezed through to their respective round of 16 boys matches with identical 6-2, 6-1 wins over hometown wildcard entry Aahan Soni and Victorian Joel Roney.

REPLAYS

Antoni Luo (QLD) v Ashton Lim (SA)

Joel Roney (VIC) v Jake Spurrell (QLD) [2]

Aahan Soni (SA) v Aleksandr Kharkov (NSW) [2]

Cleo Taylor (QLD) [1] v Kaitlyn Poon (NSW

DAY ONE WRAP

Under-14 girls top seed Tori Russell made no mistakes in her opening match at the Australian Hardcourt Championships in Adelaide.

The Gold Coast native, who has enjoyed a stellar year on the Australian junior circuit in 2024, knocked off hometown hero Hannah Park 7-5, 6-1 in straight sets on Wednesday.

The clash headlined a big opening day on the showcourt at West Lakes Tennis Club in which a fellow top seed also made a dominant start to the tournament.

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While she might have exploded into the Round of 16 with the straight sets win, it was far from a cruise for Russell after she withstood a tough fightback from Park in a first set.

Despite being broken early, Park rallied late in the first set to pick up a late breakpoint and fight her way back to even keel with her rival.

Russell produced a brilliant rally of her own to break back on the next serve and set up the 7-5 first set win, before dominating the second set.

Under-12 boys top seed Novak Palombo made little mistakes in his tournament opener on Wednesday, dropping only one game to rival Edmund Limbert in a straight sets win.

Palombo wasted little time in the match dispatching of Limbert 6-0, 6-1 in little over an hour.

In other action on Wednesday, Ayumi Ito defeated Samantha Sun 6-2, 7-6 while Nikola Markulin made a strong start to the boys Under-14 championships with a straight sets win over Aidan Chan.

REPLAYS

Escher Case-Boag v Ariel Gunawan

Tori Russell v Hannah Park

Aidan Chan v Nikola Markulin

Samantha Sun v Ayumi Ito

Novak Palombo v Edmund Libert

PREVIEW

Twelve-year-old Novak Palombo, who won the national grasscourt title back in January, headlines a stellar class of talent for the Australian Junior Hardcourt Championships in Adelaide this week.

Over 100 players will compete for the 12-and-under and 14-and-under boys’ and girls’ singles and doubles titles.

The coverage continues the partnership between KTV and Tennis Australia, which has already included the Australian Grasscourt Championships in January, the Junior Claycourt Championships in mid-April and the Australian Junior Teams Championships in June and July.

Victorian Palombo started the year in flying form, winning the grasscourt title in Mildura, and will be the 12/u boys top seed in Adelaide.

But he faces some stiff competition, with the likes of NSW duo Aleksandr Kharkov and

Sebastian Lavorato expected to do well.

Tori Russell is the top seed in the girls 14/u.

The 14/u boys title is seen as a battle between players from Victoria and Queensland. Victoria have four of the five top seeds, with Ren Asai sitting at No.1 in front of Queenslander Jake Spurrell.

Queenslanders Cleo Taylor and Tori Russell are the favourites in the 12/u and 14/u girls divisions, with Russell gunning for her second national title after claiming the 12/u claycourt championship in 2023.

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Originally published as Live stream: Catch six days of action from the 2024 Australian Junior Hardcourt Championships