South African junior tennis ace, Christiaan Worst won his second international singles title in as many weeks in Potchefstroom on Saturday.
The Pretoria-based Worst, seeded twelfth and a member of Afrikaans Hoër Seunskool, won the ITF NWU Pukke 2 at the Riaan Venter Tennis Academy beating compatriot Rikhardt Bierman, seeded eleventh, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the rain-interrupted final.

The girls’ singles was dominated by the foreign players with Israel’s Shavit Kimchi, seeded sixth, needing less than an hour to beat unseeded Margriet Timmermans of Netherlands 6-3, 6-4, in the final.

Timmermans did not leave Potchefstroom empty-handed, however. The Dutch junior teamed up with her fellow countrywoman, Perla Nieuwboer, to win the doubles’ title.

The fourth seeds beat third-seeded South Africans, Megan Basson and Myah Petchey 6-1, 1-6, 10-6 in a battle royal.
Christiaan Worst won a full-house of titles when he teamed up with countryman, Justin Liebenberg to take the doubles title.

Third seeds, Worst and Liebenberg beat fifth-seeded Liam Coertzen and Joubert Klopper, also of South Africa 7-5, 7-5 in the final.

Photos: Wouter Pienaar