Maddison Inglis claimed her first Australian Professional Tour singles title in additional than 4 years in Mildura this week.
Mildura, Australia, 17 March 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Maddison Inglis and Alex Bolt lived as much as their top-seed standing at this week’s Mildura Tennis Worldwide.
The 26-year-old Inglis claimed the ladies’s singles crown on the Australian Professional Tour occasion with out dropping a set, finishing an ideal week with a 6-4 6-1 victory over fellow Australian Tina Smith within the remaining.
That is Inglis’ seventh profession ITF singles title and first received on Australian soil in additional than 4 years.
The 31-year-old Bolt was equally as dominant within the males’s singles occasion on the grass-court match held in regional Victoria.
Bolt didn’t lose a set both and secured the title with a 6-2 6-2 victory in opposition to fellow South Australian Luke Saville in as we speak’s remaining.
That is Bolt’s tenth profession singles title and his first received in Australia since October 2022.
Joshua Charlton and Blake Ellis mixed to win the lads’s doubles title, edging out fellow Australian Matt Hulme and New Zealand’s James Watt in a three-set remaining.
It’s 24-year-old Charlton and 25-year-old Ellis’ second consecutive Australian Professional Tour title, having additionally scooped a crown in Traralgon earlier this month. The in-form duo have now received 11 of their previous 12 matches.
A primary-time winner was topped within the girls’s doubles competitors, with Tahlia Kokkinis triumphing alongside Alicia Smith.
Kokkinis, a 15-year-old from Brisbane, was contesting simply her fifth skilled doubles match and was a last-minute entry alongside 27-year-old Smith.
It additionally proved a milestone victory for Smith, marking the fourth and largest ITF doubles title of her profession.
The Australian Professional Tour continues subsequent week with the Swan Hill Tennis Worldwide, one other mixed ITF 25 occasion for males and ITF 35 occasion for girls.
Inglis and Bolt headline the sphere, as they purpose to win back-to-back grass-court singles titles.
Mildura Tennis Worldwide – 2024 finals
Males’s singles: [1] Alex Bolt (AUS) d [2] Luke Saville (AUS) 6-2 6-2
Ladies’s singles: [1] Maddison Inglis (AUS) d [3] Tina Smith (AUS) 6-4 6-1
Males’s doubles: [2] Joshua Charlton (AUS)/Blake Ellis (AUS) d Matt Hulme (AUS)/James Watt (NZL) 6-4 6-7(4) [10-4]
Ladies’s doubles: Tahlia Kokkinis (AUS)/Alicia Smith (AUS) d [4]
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