Tennis: Okutoyi out of US Open singles
Tennis
By
Washington Onyango
| Sep 06, 2022
Highly rated Kenyan tennis star Angella Okutoyi is out of the Junior US Open singles category.
The Wimbledon Doubles champion exited the singles event in the second round of the US Open Junior Championship on the hard courts of Flushing Meadows in New York on Monday night.
Okutoyi lost 2-6, 7-6, 1-6 against eighth-seeded Taylah Preston of Australia in a match that kicked off late after rain caused the interruption.
The 18-year-old Kenyan tennis star reached the second round after breezing past German's Carolina Kuhl by straight sets in the first round on Sunday evening.
Okutoyi stunned Kuhl 7-6, 7-5 to complete sweet revenge who had lost to the German 6-2, 6-3 in the second round of the JA Cape Town in South Africa last year in October.
Okutoyi, who is playing her last Grand Slam as a junior player, will meet eighth-seed Taylah Preston in the second round.
The Australian beat Alyssa Ahn (USA) 6-0, 3-6, 6-1 in the other round of 64 matches.
Last Saturday, Okutoyi added another accolade to her trophy cabinet as she bagged the Girls Doubles title in the J1 Repentigny tournament that took place in Canada
Alongside her Polish partner Malwina Rowinska, Okutoyi, staged a thrilling comeback from a set down to claim the trophy after the duo beat Ella Sidel (Germany) and Amelia Waligora (Belgium) 3-6, 6-2, 10-8 in the nail-biting finale.