Jin Woodman has confirmed he is a star within the making after successful three titles on the 2024 Australian Wheelchair Tennis Nationwide Championships.
Melbourne, VIC, 13 November 2024 | Jackson Mansell
For the previous decade, followers have marvelled on the abilities of Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson who’ve dominated on the world stage. They’ve paved the way in which for the following wave of stars, and it’s starting to return to fruition.
Because the Australian Open’s inaugural junior wheelchair tournaments draw nearer, the hosts are strengthening their illustration. Final weekend, the Australian Wheelchair Tennis Nationwide Championships hosted its greatest area for the junior singles competitors since 2019.
With 4 Australians ranked contained in the boys’ and ladies’ high 10 – three boys and one lady – a aggressive area of 12 assembled.
In the end, 15-year-old Jin Woodman defeated second seed Yassin Hill within the ultimate to say his sixth junior title of the 12 months.
In a dominant weekend for the teenager, Woodman additionally received the quad singles and quad doubles titles with out dropping a set in both occasion. Most impressively, he and companion Finn Broadbent didn’t drop a single sport of their quad doubles marketing campaign.
The Victorian has achieved a unprecedented quantity in a short interval.
The ITF boys’ world No.4 has taken his whole titles tally to 14 after his efforts at Melbourne Park. Additionally ranked world No.22 within the quad singles rankings, Woodman is presently the youngest participant within the high 25.
With Woodman, Hill, boys No.8 Benjamin Wenzel and ladies No.10 Isla Gillespie, Australia has a robust junior contingent for Australian Open 2025.
Within the open-age competitions, Australian males’s No.1 Anderson Parker defended his 2023 title, prevailing towards Ben Weekes 6-4 7-6(7) within the males’s singles ultimate.
It marked a profitable weekend for Parker, who additionally paired with Weekes to win the open males’s doubles silverware. The Australian Paralympics duo misplaced only one sport within the ultimate to say their third trophy collectively this season.
Within the girls’s singles occasion, Hayley Slocombe made it back-to-back titles, successful all three of her round-robin matches. The world No.67 paired with Gillespie to defeat Marita Morgan and Ruth Gallagher and prevail within the open girls’s doubles.
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