Abingdon's Alexis Canter is through to the semi-finals of the ITF Junior Grade 2 event in Delhi.

The 16-year-old second seed fought back to beat India’s Udayan Bhakar 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the quarter-finals.

He also had to come from a set down in the second round to beat Taipei’s Hua-Chen Yu 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 after opening up with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over India’s Shrey Gupta.

OXFORD’S Lucy Brown reached her second successive semi-final of an AEGON British tour event in the space of two weeks.

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The 22-year-old, from Elsfield, went out 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) to eventual winner in the last four of the women’s singles at Billesley, Birmingham.

In the last eight, she posted a thrilling 6-3, 6-7 (7-4), 7-6 (11-9) win over second seed Manisha Foster, from Warwickshire.

It came a week after Brown was beaten 6-1, 6-2 by Lisa Whybourn in the last four at Graves Tennis & Leisure Centre, Sheffield.

ABINGDON’S Matilda Mutavdzic won the Winter National ten & under tournament at Bolton.

She beat top seed Jaquelyn Ogunwale, from Bedfordshire, 4-0, 4-1 in the semi-final and then saw off Kent’s Sofia Johnson 4-1, 5-3 in the final.

This was Mutavdzic’s first Grade 2 win.

NORTH Oxford’s Louis Manson won the LTA Grade 4 tournament at Abingdon’s White Horse Leisure & Tennis Centre, beating Buckinghamshire’s Dylan Smith 4-1, 4-2 in the final.

AN 8-0 win for Woodstock Ladies A over Banbury West End moved them up to second in Division 1 of the Thames Valley Winter League, four points behind leaders Oxford City.

RESULTS

Ladies’ Div 1: Blewbury 7, Banbury 1; Woodstock 8, Banbury WE 0. Div 2: Cholsey B 7, Kingston Bagpuize 1; Faringdon B 2, Bicester 6; Goring 7, Mapledurham 1; Mapledurham 1, North Oxford 7; Portcullis B 5, Benson 3; Woodstock B 4, Abingdon 4. Div 3: Chinnor 4, Brackley B 4; David Lloyd 8, Shiplake B 0; Henley 2, Oxford Sports B 6; Kings Sutton 6, Shiplake 2; Thame 3, Watlington 5; Witney B 4, Goring B 4.

Men’s Premier Div: North Oxford 7, Norham Gardens 1; Oxford City 1, Woodstock 7; Portcullis 2, David Lloyd 6; Witney 1, Oxford Sports 7. Div 1: North Oxford C 5, Abingdon B 3; Bicester B 5, Wantage 3. Div 2: Appleton A 8, Banbury B 0.

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