The eight-seed­ed Kale Dal­la Cos­ta, sec­ond-ranked Jor­dane Dook­ie, and un­ranked Lil­ly Mo­hammed moved in­to the quar­ter­fi­nals of their re­spec­tive Boys and Girls Un­der-18 Sin­gles com­pe­ti­tion in the J30 In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) World Ten­nis Tour Tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Rack­et Cen­tre, Or­ange Grove Road, Tacarigua, on Tues­day.

In the boys’ main draw, Dal­la Coast trounced Jay­lon Chap­man in an all-T&T en­counter round-of-16 matchup with­out drop­ping a game, 6-0, 6-0 to set up a quar­ter­fi­nal du­el with the fourth-ranked USA’s Eas­t­on Hor­ricks, who won by a sim­i­lar 6-0, 6-0 mar­gin over T&T’s Deron Du­mas.

How­ev­er, the three oth­er T&T play­ers who reached the last-16, Se­bastien Byng, Beck­ham Sylvester, and Lu­ca De­noon were al­so de­feat­ed in their re­spec­tive sec­ond-round match­es.

The fifth-ranked Byng was out­last­ed by Chile’s Yong Chao He Wang 6-3, 6-7(3), 7-5 while Sylvester went un­der to third-seed­ed Juan Car­los Por­tilla Morales 1-6, 3-6, and De­noon fell to sev­enth-ranked Daniel Azar of Ja­maica, 6-7(7), 6-2, 6-3.

In the girls’ cat­e­go­ry, Dook­ie, com­ing off a third Dou­bles ti­tle win in four tour­na­ments, eased past fel­low T&T play­er Bri­an­na Har­richa­ran 6-2, 6-0, and will next face coun­try­woman Mo­hammed who stunned Grena­da’s Ar­li­na Dri­go, seed­ed eighth, 6-1, 6-2 in their last-16 clash.

The oth­er lo­cal girls in ac­tion in­clu­sive of Char­lotte Ready, El­la Car­ring­ton, Nao­mi Mo­hammed, Cameron Wong, and Shiloh Walk­er, were all beat­en.

Ready was stopped by Spain’s Al­ba Maria Coromi­na 0-6, 1-6; Car­ring­ton was dis­patched by Bar­ba­di­an fourth-seed­ed play­er Ser­e­na Bryan, 2-6, 2-6; Mo­hammed (N) was oust­ed by New Zealand’s Dal­las King-Ehau 1-6, 0-6; sev­enth-ranked Wong suf­fered a 6-1, 2-6, 1-6 loss to Cana­da’s Na­tal­ie Velits, and Walk­er was over­whelmed by USA’s Jes­si­ca Mc Lean 1-6, 0-6.

The Dou­bles round-of-16 was ex­pect­ed to serve off last night with a host of lo­cal play­ers in ac­tion.

In the lone all-T&T clash, Zachary Byng and B’jorn faced Na­then Mar­tin and Sylvester while De­noon paired with Nicholas Ready for a clash against Bar­ba­di­an Aidan Clarke, and Cana­da’s Thomas O’Neil; Chap­man broth­ers Jay­lon and Jordell met He Wang, and Hong Kong’s Ling Fung Li­onel Ng; Deron Du­mas and Daniel Ra­haman clashed with USA’s An­tho­ny Ab­bott, and T&T’s Thomas Chung, while lo­cals Yeshowah Camp­bell-Smith and Daniel Du­mas were due to face Ja­maican Azar and T&T’s Lu­ca Sham­si.