View from Aorangi Pavillion
The girls’ singles quarter-final matches have three unseeded players and all of the top five seeds. Nottinghamshire Freya Christie has been unstoppable qualifying from her group with the loss of just one game in three matches and winning both knockout matches 6-1, 6-1. Norfolk’s Megan Wright is an exceptional athlete and will prove to be the top seeds toughest challenge to date.
The fourth and fifth seeds clash in the other quarter-final in the top half of the draw. Kent’s Sarah Wray, the only girl left with a one handed backhand, seeded one place above her quarter-final opponent, Cornwall’s big hitter Athena Chrysanthou, who has dropped just 8 games in her 5 matches at the HSBC Road To Wimbledon National Finals.
Wimbledon girl and third seed, Chloe Halliday, who emerged from the Wimbledon Junior Tennis Initiative schools program feels like she is playing at home and must tackle Cambridgeshire Eilish Mackie, the only girl left in the draw that qualified second from her group that is still left in the draw.
The Suffolk second seed, Daniella Silva, has brushed aside all of her opponents in straight sets and the girl who now lives in Portugal, faces Laura Sainsbury of Avon who has gone the distance twice winning both knockout matches in the third set.
