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01/28 21:00 CST The Latest: Marcinko wins Australian Open junior girls title
The Latest: Marcinko wins Australian Open junior girls title
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) --- The Latest at the Australian Open on Saturday
(all times local):
1:30 p.m.
Top-seeded Petra Marcinko is the Australian Open girls champion.
The 16-year-old Croatian player beat eighth-seeded Sofia Costoulas of Belgium
7-5, 6-1 in the first of the junior singles final to kick off play at Rod Laver
Arena on Day 13.
Top-seeded Bruno Kuzuhara of the United States was playing fourth-seeded Jakub
Mensik of Czech Republic in the boys championship match.
The 17-year-old Kuzuhara has Japanese heritage, was born in Brazil and moved to
the U.S. with his parents when he was an infant. The Florida-based Kuzuhara has
already won the junior boys doubles title at the Australian Open with Coleman
Wong of Hong Kong --- they beat American Alex Michelsen and Adolfo Daniel
Vallejo of Paraguay 6--3, 7--6 (3).
The junior girls doubles title has also been decided --- Clervie Ngounoue of
the U.S. and Russian Diana Shnaider beat Canadians Kayla Cross and Victoria
Mboko 6--4, 6--3.
Ash Barty and Danielle Collins were scheduled to play in the women's singles
final in a night match.
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11:45 a.m.
With center stage to be taken by Ash Barty and Danielle Collins in the women's
singles final later in the day, the junior boys and girls finals were first up
on Rod Laver Arena.
Top-seeded Bruno Kuzuhara of the United States plays fourth-seeded Jakub Mensik
of Czech Republic in the boys championship match.
Kuzuhara, 17, is Brazilian-born but moved to the U.S. with his
Japanese-heritage parents when he was an infant. The Florida-based Kuzuhara has
already won the junior boys doubles title with Coleman Wong of Hong Kong ---
they beat American Alex Michelsen and Adolfo Daniel Vallejo of Paraguay 6--3,
7--6 (3).
The junior girls doubles title has also been decided --- Clervie Ngounoue of
the U.S. and Russian Diana Shnaider beat Canadians Kayla Cross and Victoria
Mboko 6--4, 6--3.
After the Barty-Collins singles championship match, the men's doubles final
features an all-Australian lineup. The crowd-pleasing and so-called "Special K"
team --- Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios, play Matt Ebden and Max Purcell.
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