Leading Canterbury junior player Ellen Barry was beaten in the second round of the junior singles at the Australian Open yesterday.
The 15-year-old lost to Austrian Tamira Paszek 6-4, 1-6, 2-6 in temperatures topping 35C.
Barry won the first set on a tight line call which saw the more experienced Paszek earn a code violation for verbal abuse.
However, in the second and third sets the Austrian was fired up and hit winners with relative ease.
Barry also lost her doubles match with Russian partner Anastasia Poltoratskaya 1-6, 6-3, 2-6 against Taiwanese eighth seeds Wen Hsien Hsu and Hsuan Hwang.
Meanwhile, second seeds Marina Erakovic and partner Victoria Azarenka, of Belarus, reached the quarter-finals of the girls doubles.
They beat the Korean/Japanese pair of Ye-Ra Lee and Ayumi Morita 6-2, 6-3. In the quarter-finals they face seventh-seed Romanians Sorana Cristea and Monica Niculescu.
Erakovic, seeded ninth in the singles, will play her third-round match against fifth seed Yung-Jan Chan, of Taiwan, today.
- NZPA
Tennis: Austrian bundles out Barry in second round
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