The 2022 Mornington Frankston Senior and Junior Open Championships took place over the weekend with Croydon’s Sajith Silva and New Zealand’s Jiayi Zhou taking out the Senior Open titles whilst Croydon dominates the junior results.

Silva took a couple of quick wins in his group stage matches before moving through the finals only dropping one set on his way to the title match. He was too strong for Coburg’s Zachary Anstey in the final, winning in straight sets.

Fresh off her week of representing New Zealand at the 2022 Eastland ITTF-Oceania Championships Jiyai Zhou took a trip down to Mornington and cruised her way to five victories to claim the Open Women’s Singles title ahead of Bairnsdale’s Danica Alburo. 

In the U/21 Men’s Singles Coburg’s Rocky Chen took home the title following an impressive performance that saw him take both group wins before dropping a solitary set on his way to the championship. In the U/21 Women's, Dandenong's Ellen Walker won each of her matches to take home the title.

Anstey slightly made up for the disappointment of finishing second in the Open Men’s by winning the Twenties Open Singles title whilst Albury’s Sam Palmer and Dandenong’s Linda Suy won the O/30 Men’s and Women’s Open Singles.

FULL SENIOR RESULTS

In the Junior Open Championships Anthony Silk (Croydon) battled it out with fellow Croydon player Justin Kwan in a five-set final for the U/19 Boy’s Open Singles title with Silk finishing the match ahead 3-2.

Jiayi Zhou came in hot form also taking out the U/17-19 Girl’s Open Singles in straight sets, defeating Croydon’s Alice Xia.

The U/17 Boy’s Open Singles title was taken out by Croydon’s Justin Kwan who defeated Charlie Hollow (MFTTA) on his home turf in a four-set final match.

Hollow battled hard across the weekend but couldn’t quite come away with a title in his home championships, narrowly losing to Croydon’s Alex Huang in the final of the U/15 Boy’s Open Singles as well. Serena Zhang won the all Croydon final in the U/15 Girl’s Open Singles against Esme Ho in four sets.

In a field that included nine groups, Loops’ Aiden Tang beat Croydon’s Joshua Ding in the final of the U/13 Boy’s Open Singles whilst Swetha Sundaresan (Loops) defeated Croydon’s Coral Zhao in the U/13 Girl’s Open Singles.

Finally, it was Alyssa Zhang (Croydon) and Aiden You (Dandenong) who took out the U/11 Girl’s and Boy’s Open Singles categories. With youngsters Lydia Tran (Dandenong) and Charlie Mak (Albert Park) won the U/9 Open Singles titles.  

FULL JUNIOR RESULTS

The next tournament up on the TTV State Tournament Circuit is the 2022 S-Trend Victorian Closed Junior on October 22 as well as the Senior and Para on October 23 at MSAC.

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