The girl’s quarter-finals yesterday saw the top four seeds make it through to the semi-finals stage. Freya Christie, 12, the number one seed from Nottinghamshire, continued to use her powerful groundstrokes to notch up an immaculate 6-0, 6-0 victory over Megan Wright of Norfolk. She will face Kent fourth seed, Sarah Wray, in their first ever encounter for a place in the final. Wray is a young talent that also possesses a lot of power, and has a great single-handed backhand that helped her to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Cornish girl Athena Chrysanthou yesterday, so this match is sure to have a lot of exciting rallies.
In the bottom half of the draw Wimbledon girl Chloe Halliday, 13, who edged out Eilish Mackie of Cambridgeshire 7-5, 6-1 in the quarters goes head to head with fourteen-year-old second seed Daniella Silva from Suffolk. Silva also had an impressive 6-3, 6-0 win over Laura Sainsbury and her match against the left-handed third seed should be a high quality encounter.
Emily Kerr of Hampshire will meet Bethany Eccles of Somerset in the top half of the draw in the girls’ consolation semi-final. And Shropshire’s Harriet Jones will play Emma Hurst from Devon.
In the girls’ doubles Nottingham pair Corinne Blythe, and Freya Christie meet Chloe Halliday of Surrey, and Sezan Walker of Middlesex. Kent’s Gabrielle Paul and Sarah Wray will play the Leicestershire and Warwickshire pairing of Abigail Amos and Maria Pandiya.
