De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Make­da Bain will face off with com­pa­tri­ot Cyra Ram­cha­ran in the Girls Un­der-14 Sin­gles fi­nal of the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean Ten­nis Con­fed­er­a­tion (COTECC)-Bar­ba­dos In­ter­na­tion­al U-14 Ten­nis Tour­na­ment Wednes­day.

This af­ter both T&T play­ers won their semi­fi­nal match­es in straight sets at the Ray­mond Forde Na­tion­al Ten­nis Cen­tre in St Michael, Tues­day.

The top-seed­ed Bain, who al­so won the girls' dou­bles ti­tle last year, ad­vanced to with­in one vic­to­ry of re­tain­ing her crown when she brushed aside an­oth­er T&T play­er Cher­dine Sylvester 6-2, 6-2 in their semi­fi­nal while third-ranked Ram­cha­ran up­staged sec­ond-ranked Cana­di­an Kate­lyn Pa­su­la 7-5, 6-3 to earn her spot in the ti­tle match.

In the Girls' Dou­bles semi­fi­nals, Bain and Suri­name's Cy­belle Fer­ri­er were ex­pect­ed to face Bar­ba­di­an Adia Hope and Pa­su­la while the Ram­cha­ran sis­ters, Cyra and Suri came up against Shreya Rawat of St Kitts & Nevis and Sylvester af­ter press time.

There were mixed for­tunes for the T&T boys con­tin­gent still in the main draw with Christo­pher Khan and Jack Brown ad­vanc­ing to the semi­fi­nals while Josi­ah Hills and Oliv­er Har­ra­gin were boot­ed.

Khan ad­vanced to the fi­nal four at the ex­pense of fel­low T&T play­er, fourth-ranked No­vak Mal­colm 6-0, 6-4 and will face Bar­ba­di­an Zane Kir­ton who stunned pre­vi­ous­ly un­beat­en and top-ranked Hills 6-4, 6-1 in their quar­ter­fi­nal while on the oth­er side of the draw, Brown bat­tled past coun­try­man Jay­sean Wells 6-2, 7-6 and will meet El Sal­vadore­an Ma­teo Gutier­rez who oust­ed Har­ra­gin 7-5, 6-1.

In the Boys' Dou­bles quar­ter­fi­nals, Har­ra­gin com­bined with Gutier­rez to de­feat T&T’s Dun­can and Mal­colm 6-2, 6-0 in their quar­ter­fi­nal and will come up against T&T duo Ja­cob Jacelon and Jay­sean Wells, 6-0, 6-1 win­ners against St Lu­cian Den­ney Es­tave and San­jay Lake, ranked fourth in their quar­ter­fi­nal.

In the oth­er semi­fi­nal, third-ranked T&T's Khan and Bar­ba­di­an Kir­ton dis­missed Kit­t­ian Bran­don Bris­bane and Bar­ba­di­an Gar­rick Pil­grim 6-0, 6-2 and will do bat­tle with the win­ners of last night's re­main­ing quar­ter­fi­nal be­tween USA's Hen­ry Mar­tin and Khrish Tal­la and T&T's Brown and Hills.

Oth­er re­sults

Girls U-14 semi­fi­nals: Cy­belle Fer­ri­er (Sur) bt An­abelle Stanis­laus (Grd) 6-0, 6-1.

Boys U-14 semi­fi­nals: Joshua Franklin (B'dos) bt Luke Bel­lamy (T&T) 6-3, 6-2.

U-12 Di­vi­sion

Girls: Tei­jha Welling­ton (T&T) bt Alyel­la May­nard (SKN) 4-0, 4-0.

Boys: Do­minic Cado­gan (B'dos) bt Chris­t­ian Dun­can (T&T) 4-1, 5-3; Tzuriel Per­ci­val (SKN) bt Chris­t­ian Dun­can (T&T) 4-0, 4-0.