Jin Woodman: The brand new face of Australian wheelchair tennis | 13 November, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

For the previous decade, followers have marvelled on the skills of Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson who’ve dominated on the world stage. They’ve paved the best way for the subsequent 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 discipline for the junior singles competitors since 2019.

With 4 Australians ranked contained in the boys’ and women’ high 10 – three boys and one lady – a aggressive discipline of 12 assembled.

In the end, 15-year-old Jin Woodman defeated second seed Yassin Hill within the remaining to assert his sixth junior title of the yr.

In a dominant weekend for the teen, 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 recreation of their quad doubles marketing campaign.

The Victorian has achieved a rare quantity in a quick interval.

The ITF boys’ world No.4 has taken his complete titles tally to 14 after his efforts at Melbourne Park. Additionally ranked world No.22 within the quad singles rankings, Woodman is at present the youngest participant within the high 25.

With Woodman, Hill, boys No.8 Benjamin Wenzel and women No.10 Isla Gillespie, Australia has a powerful 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 remaining.

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 recreation within the remaining to assert their third trophy collectively this season.

Within the girls’s singles occasion, Hayley Slocombe made it back-to-back titles, profitable 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.