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| Nguyen Phan Yen Tich wins girls’ U16 singles title at the Dunlop Cup. — Photo thethaovietnam.vn |
Viet Nam News
HA NOI — Nguyen Phan Yen Tich of HCM City’s Hung Thinh Club won the girls’ U16 category at the first youth tennis championship, Dunlop Cup, which concluded in Ha Noi on Sunday.
The overseas Vietnamese player defeated Nguyen Thi Phuong of Ha Noi in a match that saw 1.80m-tall Tich put up a strong fight to win 0-6, 6-2, 6-2.
The HCM City team also triumphed in two singles event: the girls’ U12 was won by Ngo Hong Hanh, while Duong Thien Quang won the boys’ U14 event. In the doubles pool, HCM City, the national tennis hub, won all four categories of girls’ and boys’ U14 and U16.
With seven golds, HCM City topped the ranking charts.
In another final, Tu Le Khanh Duy of Becamex Binh Duong beat Tat Thai Nguyen of HCM City 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (6) in the U16 boys’ singles.
Both of them are members of the national junior team which finished third at the recent Junior Davis Cup pre-qualifier in Sri Lanka.
Earlier, Trinh Vu Khang of Thai Nguyen won the U10 boys’ singles, while Tong Thi Bich Tram of Tay Ninh won the girls’ singles. Dang Tran Quoc Thai of the military team won the U12 boy’ singles, and Ly Minh Anh of Bac Giang triumphed in the U14 girls’ singles. 7 VNS
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