Tennis South Africa has released the list of seeds and wildcards for the final Sun City Futures tournament, the Sun City Futures 3.
The tournament will get underway on Monday 9 June while the finals have been scheduled to take place on Friday 13 June.
The tournament is part of the three event Sun City Futures series for men and women that offers international world ranking points and prize money totaling R 750 000.00.
South African Davis Cup player Dean O’Brian is at the top of the men’s seeding, followed by countryman Tucker Vorster.
Vorster reached the final of the first Sun City Futures event but lost out to countryman Fritz Wolmarans.
Wolmarans is seeded third, while American player Tyler Hochwalt is the first outsider in fourth place.
On the women’s side, South African number two Chanel Simmonds tops the seeding despite her quarterfinal exit at the Futures 2 event.
France’s Clothilde De Bernardi, who was the runner-up at Futures 2, is seeded second, ahead of two more South Africans Madrie Le Roux and Natasha Fourouclas, who are seeded third and fourth, respectively.
Le Roux will look to bounce back strongly after a bout of influenza saw her retiring from the singles semi-final and also withdrawing from the doubles finals at Futures 2.
The seeds with world rankings are as follows (South African unless stated);
Men’s Seeds:
1. Dean O’Brien 555
2. Tucker Vorster 583
3. Fritz Wolmarans 584
4. Tyler Hochwalt (USA) 617
5. Jacob Adaktusson (SWE) 687
6. Milos Sekulic (SWE) 713
7. Ruan Roelofse 755
8. Augusto Laranja (BRA) 757
Womens Seeds:
1. Chanel Simmonds 237
2. Clothilde De Bernardi (FRA) 385
3. Madrie Le Roux 624
4. Natasha Fourouclas 728
5. Michelle Sammons 835
6. Alexandra Riley (USA) 869
7. Stephanie Kent (USA) 1022
8. Casey Robinson (USA) 1034
Tennis South Africa also announced the wild-cards for this week’s Sun City Futures 3.
The wild-cards are as follows (South African unless stated);
Men: Lloyd Harris, Richard Ashforth, Tuki Jacobs (NAM) and Anderson Reed (USA)
Women: Shannon Cox, Lenice Van Eyk, Chelsea Te Tai (NZL) and Maria Knott (AUS)
