South Africans keep heads up in the Sun City Futures

In the men’s singles, tournament favourite Fritz Wolmarans of South Africa had little trouble and needed less than an hour to beat fellow South African Reinhardt Trollip 6-2 6-0. The tall and strong Wolmarans used his big serve to full effect in dominating throughout.

Meanwhile men’s sixth seed, Ruan Roelofse also of South Africa had a tougher first round against countryman Lance Cohen who he overcame with a final score of 6-4 7-6 (6).

Other South African men to win through to round two on Tuesday were second seed Tucker Vorster, eighth seeded Damon Gooch and wild card Benjamin Janse Van Rensburg.

Augusto Laranja of Brazil seeded seven lost only two games in beating local Johannes Mybugh 6-1 6-1 and now meets Zimbabwean Benjamin Lock in round two.

In the women’s singles, top seeded South African Madrie Le Roux had to come from behind and pull out all the stops in her 1-6 6-3 6-4 win over current under 18 National Junior Champion, Katie Poluta.

Third seeded Michelle Sammons kept the flag flying high with an easy win over unseeded Anais Isart of Spain 6-2 6-0.

– Sapa