All four seeds go into the second day of wheelchair tennis action at the Sainsbury’s School Games filling the four semi-final spots in the boys’ singles, with England, Northern Ireland and Scotland all still represented in the competition for a place in Sunday’s final.
With three of the seeds having byes into the quarter-finals , Northern Ireland fourth seed Ross Gourley was the only player to be taken to a tie-break in the first two rounds of matches as he claimed a 4-1, 5-4(3) win over Warwick’s George Davies.
Three of the other four first round matches ended with 4-0, 4-0 wins for England’s George Jeremiah and Wales’s Ben Johnson-Rolfe and Ben Jones, but top seed Nicholas Smelt ended Jeremiah’s progress 4-1, 4-2, while Smelt’s England team mate Josh Cooper stormed past Johnson-Rolfe 4-0, 4-0.
Gourley dropped just one game in his quarter-final against England’s Nathanial Lowe-Cordingley and now plays Cooper for a place in the final.
Smelt, Cooper and third seed Ruairi Logan have all previously represented Great Britain in the junior event at the World Team Cup. After being the wheelchair tennis flag bearer at the Sainsbury’s School Games opening ceremony on Thursday night 13-year-old Logan won his opening match against Ben Jones of Wales 4-0, 4-2 to ensure a Scot’s presence in the last four.
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