2026 AJC Day 1 Wrap Up
Published Sun 27 Sep 2026
A beautiful sunny day began with Daniel Gonzalez U17 doing battle with Dominic from WA. Dom proved too strong and moved into the 2nd round.
Sean Sehu U17 then took centre stage and got across the line 3-1 after a nervous start, and Connor Moriarty U17 won 3-2.
Josh Wood, Tyler Phabnixay, Guy Pascal, Riley Jones, Nathaniel Middleton, Samiya Sanghera, Niah Low-Nang all had tough matches and fought valiantly losing out before the lunch break.
The younger age groups then took to the courts with, Cristiano Wijesiri, Lucas Jones, Kaira Malhotra, Owen Boardman, Bhodi Wratten, Ayan Bhat, Ruisha Chu, Nathan Lin, Ahan Bhat, Cooper all winning and Ido Pascal winning twice.
Some of the younger contingent lost out but will fight again tomorrow; Jerry Chen, Ayden Wijesiri, Muhammad Khan, Wesly Lu, Felix Zhang, Jayden Zhang, Khadijah Khan, Zach Beck.
As the day moved on some of our previous AJC and State champions started their campaigns with wins, including Annette Chow, Elizabeth Wang, Emilia Scott, Hannah Frankcomb, Naveen Sanghera, Ben Boardman, Max Jones, Kasper Cheung, Stanley Chung and Thomas Wang.
Around the grounds Fatimah Khan took a win and will face AJO champion Joanne Joseph, team captain Jade Reynolds won and will play the OJC champion Sarbani Maitra. Daniel Yanez who will now take on Kasper and Ethan Middleton all progress to the quarters. Jaida Wigley will now face team mate Emilia Scott. Karissa Cheung won in 3 and will face last years champion Yashica Jiwa Mohan from Victoria.
Cooper Jones, Oliver Dickens will play for 9 to 16 after losing out in the last 16.
Henry Kross and Elka Low Nang will kick off their campaigns tomorrow.
