Vucic Wins Back to Back Doubles Titles
 
MCTA Players Ilija Vucic and Henri Kontinen will both reach career high rankings when the latest points hit the computer next Monday. Vucic paired with Niki Mozer from Austria to win a second consecutive doubles title in Thailand at the ITF/LTAT Junior Championships 2008 G1 tournament. They beat no1 seeds Siributwong and Wachiramanowong from Thailand 4-6 6-3 [10-8] in the final.
 
Henri had a fantastic run of a win and runner-up spot in back to back tournaments the last 2 weeks. He was one hurdle short of winning a singles double. He lost in the final to Alexander Lobkov of Russia 6-3, 6-3. Kontinen had won the singles title of SALON PAS International Junior Championships in Indonesia last week.
 
Both Vucic and Kontinen still have one more tournament to play on their Asian tour and MCTA Coach Igor Tomasevic is pretty satisfied to have been involved on finals day two weeks running, with MCTA walking off with three out of four trophies.
 
MCTA Director of Tennis, David Sammel said: “The results are significant in both of their junior careers. Henri has established his credentials as a player on the move and Ilija has compensated with patchy singles form with some excellent doubles and hopefully they can continue the run of form into this final leg of the Asian tour. Certainly the other players will be wary and they carry the advantage of “Locker Room Power” into this week and hopefully into Europe in April”.