MILES Maclagan's positive approach again paid dividends in the third
leg of the LTA Satellite Circuit at Telford yesterday. The 18-year-old
Scot was awarded a wild card into the main draw and reached the second
round with a three-set victory over seventh seed Lionel Berthez from
France.
After losing the first set 6-2, Maclagan fought back to take the
second 6-3. A controversial line call against him in the fourth game of
the final set put him 3-1 behind but he re-asserted his authority and
ran out a 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 winner. In today's last 16 he faces Hans Priller
of Austria.
Jennifer Duncan and Jason Barnett, winners of the singles titles at
the recent Scottish Junior Indoor championships, have a chance to test
themselves against Britain's top young players at Welwyn Garden City
this weekend after earning places in the 16-player Masters event of the
LTA 18-and-under winter circuit.
Duncan, who won 10 circuit points from the three qualifying legs to
finish sixteenth, has been drawn in a round robin section which includes
top seed Mandy Wainwright of Essex, Surrey's Candy Reid, and Karen
Nicholson of Bedfordshire.
Barnett, twelfth on the points table, takes on third seed Matthew
Coombs of Essex, Durham's Ben O'Connor, and Avon's Paul Martin who beat
Scottish No.1 Ross Matheson on the British Tour last month.
* RITCHIES of Edinburgh this week announced a three-year sponsorship
package, worth more than #20,000, for the Scottish Schools Team Tennis
Championships.
The event has been restructured to include singles play.
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