TOP seeds in the juniors or AMT event dominated many rallies in Tuesday's play at the McDonald's Classic on Bendigo's courts.
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Many of the youngsters progressed through to Wednesday's finals as those in AMT contention rolled through to second-round or the start of the finals.
Spring Gully's Isaac Watson has won through to Wednesday's final of the under-16 boys singles.
The tournament's No.1 seed, Watson scored a 6-4 6-2 victory in Tuesday's semi-final against Ryan O'Meara.
It could be an all-Watson final.
The semi between the fifth-seeded Blake Watson and No.7 seed Matteo Savio is yet to be played.
The Watsons are not related.
A great tournament for Isaac Watson has included teaming with Tane Thomas to win the under-16 boys doubles title.
Team-mates for BLTC Quest in the Bendigo Tennis Association's premier league, Watson and Thomas were top seeds and scored a 6-1 6-4 victory against No.2 seeds Ryan O'Meara and Blake Watson.
Rich River's Erik Holt-Crossman takes on Luka Cancar in the under-18 boys' singles final at 10.15am.
Crossman is top seed.
The fifth-seeded Cancar scored a straight-sets win against fourth-seed Nicholas Gattuso in the semis.
There's plenty more action to come in the AMT women's and men's singles.
Most of the top seeds are still in contention for a major share of the $7000 prize pool.
Top seed Katerina Valos scored a 6-2 6-1 victory in the second round of the women's singles.
Valos takes on No.7 seed Vanessa Dobson in Wednesday's quarter-final.
Qualifier Alexandra Bailey struck back from a 2-6 loss in the first set to defeat No.6 seed Sophie Torcello 6-2 6-4.
The other upset was Binasa Beslagic's 3-6 6-4 6-4 wi n against No.8 seed Bianca Duff.
In the men's AMT singles the top eight seeds are Daniel Byrnes, Aaron Leeder-Chard, Paul Kramberger, Caleb Boland, Glen Dawes, Joshua Boots, David Hough and Sam Longhurst.
First matches on Wednesday are at 9am at the Bendigo Bank tennis complex in Nolan Street.
