The Referee for both the ITF Junior Events in New Caledonia over the last 2 week, Pat O’Rourke, writes that ”
In June the Ligue Caledonienne de Tennis staged two ITF Junior Circuit tournaments back to back for the first time. Good fields were assembled for both events and with it being school holidays in Noumea, larger than normal numbers of local players took part in the two events.
The Girl’s Singles event was a triumph for Carol Lee from the Northern Mariana Islands. Carol won the first tournament to claim her first singles title on the ITF Junior tour and then repeated the performance in the second week. Both weeks she beat Helena Mahomed from France in the final. Carol also won the doubles title, her second, in the first week combining with Holly Stewart from New Zealand. As a result Lee will move inside the top 300 players in the world.
The boys singles saw New Zealander Isaac Becroft reach his first singles finals on the ITF Junior Tour. In week one Hyeonsu Choi (KOR) beat Becroft in the final but the Kiwi went one better in the second week beating top seed Denton Ho (HKG) 64 64 to claim his first singles title. Becroft did the same in the doubles reaching the final with compatriot Findley Hall both weeks, losing the final the first week but then going one better to beat TK Williams (NZL) and Ryo Minakata (JPN) 62 63″