The traditional pre Australian Open event should start tomorrow, weather permitting, with 3 of our AO acceptances (Amarni Banks is missing). Felix Gill appears to have the toughest draw against the former JWR5, who has won a Grade A event
Play was curtailed to just the girls singles, where Matilda battled through two tiebreaks to earn a meeting with the American 16th seed, who beat Matilda en route to a Grade 1 title last year.
Girls R1 (L64)
Matilda Mutavdzic d. Ya Yi Yang (TPE) 7-6(5) 7-6(3)
Bit late to this, and a shame she lost to the seed in R2, but that was a good R1 win. Yang is pretty much the same age as Matilda (a couple of weeks older), and I remember watching her comfortably beat Garland in a Taiwan 125k R1 WC battle a couple of months ago, and she looked pretty good.