Sun 13th, Day ONE:

Day one of Junior CASA 2014 kicked off today at the BSRA with the event being officially opened by Bermuda's very own Minister Wayne Scott after a well organized opening ceremony.

The matches began straight after beginning with the BU13 and GU13 age groups.

Mostly all straight forward results for the youngsters with the exception of an all Bermudian battle between Oscar Lindsey and Shane White. Oscar Lindsey coming from 2-1 down to take the match 3-2 after quite a lot of emotion from both players.

In the BU15 and GU15 age groups saw some very strong performances from the top seeds to win 3-0 rather comfortably as well as two strong performances from newcomers Emma Turnbull and Kali Maclean. The pair from the Cayman Islands showed no signs of nerves and made it past two very tough matches to book their spot in the next round.

The BU17 and GU17 soon followed. Mainly straight forward results with the exception of two two extremely entertaining matches which can only be summed up in one word "run".

First up was Gyles Luke from the Cayman Islands against Roland Brewster from Barbados, there were some great rallies in this match seeing both boys flying around the court to do whatever they could to get a ball back on the front wall. Eventually Roland coming out the victor making it back from 2-0 down to win 3-2.

Roland said this after his match: "I played a formidable opponent out there today and had to push the hardest I could to make it through, I'm really happy to be in the next round."

Next up was Dylan Muldoon of Bermuda against Alec Melville of Guyana, this was a real see-saw battle with both players having hardly anything to separate them. The scores and rallies could have gone either way easily but on this day Dylan Muldoon came out on top winning 3-1 all games ending in a tie break.

After his match Dylan was quoted saying: "Mentally and physically that was so hard, I'm happy to make it through to the next round in my first CASA."

Last up were the BU19 which saw a few familiar faces up against each other, some of whom will be their last Junior CASA tournament.

All matches ended up being 3-0 except for one which has to go down as the match of the day between Daniel Murphy of the Cayman Islands against Christian Edghill of Trinidad and Tobago.

The match started with Christian looking the more steady and patient of the two players, hitting his length well and being rewarded by going 2-0 up. In the 3rd Daniel began finding his length a bit better and remaining calm after being a match ball down and a nervy tie break to take it 15-13. The 4th game was an exact copy of the 3rd seeing Daniel take it again in a tie break 12-10.

Not much changed in the 5th with Daniel again saving a match ball and yet again taking it to another tie break to finally pull off the win 3-2.

After the battle Daniel said: "I was struggling to find my length on a hot bouncy court in the first two games today and had to try and adapt if I was going to win. Thankfully I was able to and managed to pull off one of the closest matches I've ever played."

Draws & Results

Draws & Results