Editor: ANDY FRASER

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August 27, 1980

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Michibata victor in junior
national tennis tourney

By NOEL WRIGHT

Top-seeded Martin
Wostenholme of Ot-
tawa had a day when
nothing went right
Saturday as he lost the
men’s under-18 singles
final to Toronto's
Glenn Michibata in the
Canadian junior tennis

championships at the
Hollyburn Country
Club.

Aside from three double

faults at 4-0 in the first set,
Michibata took the tithe with
a smooth, confident 6 2, 6-0
performance He had
previously won the event

(wo years ago.

In the women's under-18
final No. 1 seed Diane
Blondean of Quebec City
finally emerged the 7-6, 62
victor over Sara Papplebaum
of La Jolla, California, after
a marathon slugfest lasting
almost two and a half hours

For much of the match
Papplebaum — whom
Blondeau had defeated two
weeks carlier in the Quebec
Open — kept her opponent
on the baseline fielding an
endiess series of Jobs

In the men's” under 16
division Chris Pridcham 0/
Oakville, Ontario, won the
final 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 against
fourth ranked Martin
Laurendecau of Montreal

Libby Wilkinson of

London, Ontario, took the
women's” under-16_ title,
beating Heten Christiaanse
of White Rock 6-3, 6-2

In the finals of the men's
doubles

events
Wostenholme and Ric
Bengston of West Van
couver (under- 18) won

Dale Willard of Victona and
Michacl Young of West
Vancouver won the men's
under-16 contest

JIN Hetherlngton = and
fatima Ravat of Mississauga
emerged traumphant ino the

women’s under 1& doubles
Kellle Hadden of Thornhill
Ont . and Marianne Groat ol

St Catharines, Ontario

were the victors in the
under 16 doubles
The semi-final between

Michibata and Doug Burke
of the
more exciting matches of the
tournament with scores of 6-
Jand ’-6

In the other sem final,
Wostenholme defeated Laird
Dunlop of Victoma 7 S64

of Toronto was one

lt was the firs( tame in
eight years that the nabonal
yumior champtonships have
been held on the west coast

Happiest the
tournament Saturday — af
termnoon were organizers Tor
Bengston and Roly Hastings
of the host Hollyburn Club
after a rain free week
following the = torrential
storm the previous Sunday
which had threatened the
opening of the event

men in

CANADA’S TOP
skateboarders com-
peted for the
national § skate-
boarding title at the
bowl in Sey-Lynn
Park. Freestyle,
downhill and
jumping com-
petitions were held
around the Van-
couver area, with
the bowl riding
winding up the
competition in
North Vancouver
last week.
(Terry Peters
photo)

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