13 year old Nathan Ponwith made his itf debut in Claremont winning three matches to make the maindraw but lost 63 63 in the 1st round to another talented junior, No.5 seed Alexander Zverev of Germany. Good effort in his first try

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Also Eduardo Nava is through to the 3rd round of this same event taking out Ponwith's conqueror A. Zverev 64 61

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