Tennis: Childs into third round

Bay of Plenty's Austen Childs silenced the local crowd with his second-round victory over Australian Greg Jones at the Australian Open junior tennis championships in Melbourne yesterday.

Childs, 16, beat Jones 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, hitting 29 winners to his rival's 24 before a large contingent of New Zealand supporters.

Canterbury's Ellen Barry lost her second-round match to seventh seed Sorana-Mihaela Cirstea, of Romania, while Aucklander Sacha Jones lost to third seeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova.

Barry, ranked at 32, lost 2-6, 4-6 to the 15th-ranked Cirstea, while Jones went down 3-6 1-6.