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weyaseelan takes tennis title

UNSEEDED AND battling the flu, local tennis ace Sonya

**There’s no way she would have

Jeyaseelan went on to become the first Canadian ever to lost ‘0 Edwards normally,’’ said
win the under-12 title at the December Fiesta Bowl U.S. na-
tional junior tennis championships in Tempe, Ariz.

Jeyaseelan easily defeated Maria
Cole of Santa Cruz, Calif., 4-6,6-
1,6-1 in the girls’ under-12 singles
final, despite suffering from the
flu in the early rounds.

Jeyaseelan said she felt good
about the win: ‘‘I deserved to win
because I worked really hard,’’
said the Upper Lynn elementary
student. ‘‘I was weak and tired but
I played aggressively. Cole wasn’t
tough to beat.”

Father and coach Reggie said
that after playing an emotional
game Jeyaseclan was physically
drained and tired. She went on to
win the first two rounds of the
Copper Bowl tournament but lost

‘Tough road’
for tennis dad

REGGIE JEYASEELAN has 2
tough road ahead of him.

The father of an up-and-coming
12-year-old tennis star, Jeyaseelan
quit a good paying full-time job to
manage daughter Sorya’s career.
A tennis tournament here, a tennis
tournament there, it all adds up.

“Our main problem now is try-
ing to get funds to pay for practice
and travel costs,'’said Reggie.

With four coaches to pay and a
host of other expenses that come:
with training, Reggie is hoping that
Sonya’s excellent record will either
catch the eye of a private company
or the Canadian government.

Unlike European countries that
spend millions of dollars on gifted
tennis players and other athletes,
Canada hasn’t contributed a penny

_ towards Sonya’s career, he said.

“The German tennis federation
spends an enormous amount of
money on people like Boris Becker
and Stefie Graf by the time they're
15. That’s before they’ve
(athletes) even earned a penny.”

Tennis B.C. has contributed
small grants of $50 and $100 but
Reggie considers that ‘*peanuts.””

“St’s a cough road from now on
for me,’’he says.

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im the semi-finals to Arizona's
Katie Edwards, !-6,3-6.

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In the final match Jeyaseelan
beat Jana Nejedly of Richmond,
B.C. to finish in third place.

On Sunday, Jeyaseelan added
another victory to her already im-
pressive record by winning the
under-14 title at the Pacific Nor-
thwest Pepsi Winter Junior

17 - Wednesdzy, January 11, 1989 -

Championships in Seattle,
defeating Erin Gowen of Mercer
Island, Wash., 6-4,6-2.

That was after defeating Renta
Icolbovic of Vancouver, B.C., 6-2,
6-2 in a morning match.

Jeyaseelan, who stands only
4°8"" became the first Canadian to
win the U.S. Indoor Nationals in
both singles and doubles in Cherry
Hill, N.J.

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