Tennis: Goulding looks promising again

Britain's Oliver Golding yesterday advanced to the second round of the junior US Open with a 7-6 6-3 victory over Spain's Andres Artunedo Martinavarr.

Golding, who reached the semi-finals of the juniors at Wimbledon earlier this year, won the crucial tie-break 11-9 and broke early in the second set on his way to an impressive win on Court 15.

The 16-year-old Londoner, who won a gold medal in the recent Youth Olympics in Singapore in the boys' doubles, will face American Mitchell Frank – the 16th seed – in the second round.

The former child actor said: "It just slid out of my hand and just trickled over the fence. The umpire said she knew it was an accident but had to give me a code violation because it went out of the court.

"It was a scrappy match but it was a big one to get through because I lost to him a couple of months ago on clay in the European Championships."