After defeating Malaysia, 2-1, earlier on Friday at the World Junior Tennis Asia/Oceania Qualifying in Shenzhen, the sixth-seeded Hong Kong team of Kevin Wong, Kelvin Lam, and Vincent Yau is to face-off with Chinese Taipei in the 5th – 6th Place Playoff at the East Lake Tennis Club today. However, at the time of writing, play has been suspended until further notice due to persistent rain. [Full Results]   [Gallery]

At the World Junior Tennis Asia/Oceania Qualifying held at the East Lake Tennis Club in Shenzhen, the sixth-seeded HK team of Kevin Wong, Kelvin Lam, and Vincent Yau suffered a 3-0 setback against second-seeded Australia in the quarterfinals earlier on Thursday. A win would have sent the territory to the World Finals in Prostejov, Czech Republic, for the first time since 2001. [Full Results] [Photo Gallery]

In a replica of opening day's dominant display at the World Junior Tennis Asia/Oceania Qualifying in Shenzhen, the sixth-seeded HK team of Kevin Wong, Kelvin Lam, and Vincent Yau blanked New Zealand 3-0 earlier yesterday to go joint-top in Group 2 together with No. 3 seed China. The territory will next face-off with China to determine final positions for qualification to the knockout stage.
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The sixth-seeded Hong Kong WJT Boys' contingent of Kelvin Lam, Kevin Wong, and Vincent Yau thoroughly dominated the Philippines 3-0 on opening day of the 2008 World Jr Tennis Asia/Oceania Qualifying event held this year at the East Lake Tennis Club in Shenzhen. The girls' competition will take place the following week at the same venue from April 21-26.  [Gallery]

Having needed to win both reverse singles to stave off relegation, Hong Kong did just that on Sunday at the Chinese Recreation Club where Yu Hiu Tung first leveled the tie at 2-2 by calmly defeating opposing No. 1, Karim Alayly, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3. Michael Lai then completed the 3-2 overall victory by seeing off the inexperienced Ibrahim Abou Chahine, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2, who got the call in place of the ailing Jicham Zaatini.

At the GB1 Asian Closed Jr Tennis Championships held at the Indore Tennis Club in Central India, junior world No. 4 and top-seeded Noppawan Lertcheewakarn extended her personal-best winning streak on the ITF junior circuit to 16 matches when she beat No. 3 seed Jessica Yang, 6-2, 6-0, to win the coveted girls' singles title earlier on Saturday.

On Saturday at the Davis Cup A/O Zone Group II Relegation Playoffs held at the Chinese Recreation Club, the Lebanese pairing of Jicham Zaatini and Karim Alayly came from two sets down to beat Henry So and Adrian Montesinos, 6-7(4), 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(7), 6-4, to stake the visitors to a precious 2-1 lead. Yu Hiu Tung is to face Karim Alayly first up in the reverse singles on Sunday in a must-win situation.

Earlier on Friday at the Indore Tennis Club in India, third-seeded Jessica Yang (ITF 37) defeated No. 14 seed Miyabi Inoue (ITF 97) in the semifinals at the GB1 Asian Closed Jr Tennis Championships, 6-4, 6-4, to advance to the final where top-seeded world No. 4 Noppawan Lertcheewakarn will await.

After opening day's action in the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas Asia/Oceania Zone Group II Relegation Playoff held at the Chinese Recreation Club, Hong Kong and Lebanon are deadlocked at 1-1 following the opening singles, thus guaranteeing a grandstand finish this weekend with everything still to play for.  First off, Yu Hiu Tung gave the home side a 1-0 lead by beating Jicham Zaatini, 7-6(2), 7-6(2), 6-7(1), 6-0, but Lebanese No. 1 Karim Alayly managed to beat Michael Lai, 6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 9-7, to pull his team back on level terms.

At the GB1 Asian Closed Jr Tennis Championships in India, No. 3 seed Jessica Yang (ITF 37) was trailing by a set and 3-5, 0-40 down in the second before she fought off all three match points to register a 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, victory over No. 8 seed Alexandra Kolesnichenko (ITF 87) of Uzbekistan to progress to the semifinals.