Jeffrey Fradkin and Rebecca Lynn, of the United States, claimed singles titles as the Bermuda ITF Junior Open Tournament wrapped up at the WER Joell Stadium yesterday.

In a match interrupted by a morning shower, Fradkin, the No 2 seed, beat third seed Christopher Heck, of Canada, 6-1, 6-3 while unseeded Rebecca Lynn beat No 1 seed Nicole Kiefer 6-0, 6-3 in an all-American final.

The girls’ final, between 14 and 15-year-olds, saw the younger Lynn prevail in a match that lasted 1hr 50min and was closer than the scoreline suggests after six of the nine games in the second set went to deuce. Even the opening set, which lasted about 45 minutes had three deuce games, as Kiefer battled hard to win a game.

It took the top seed 57 minutes to win her first game, breaking Lynn’s serve to pull it back to 2-1 in the second set. Lynn then won the next two games to take a 4-1 lead, only to see Kiefer win back-to-back deuce games to bring it back to 4-3. Lynn then broke Kiefer’s serve and held serve for the win.

“She fought really hard, she’s a great player,” Lynn said. “I might have lost a little bit of focus [after the first set], but I think I was able to gain it back in the end and control myself.

“I played pretty well, definitely. I can always do better, but overall I think I did a pretty good job.”

Lynn is open to coming back to defend her title next year. “You guys are great, everyone here is so friendly,” she said.

Kiefer, who also lost the first set of her semi-final victory over Petra Miszczak the day before, was unable to get any momentum, although she worked hard to stay in the match. “It definitely was a close game but I didn’t take any of my opportunities,” said Kiefer, who won the doubles title the night before with Shirley Liang, of Canada.

“I had many put-away balls that I wasn’t able to execute and she just played better overall.

“I was down 4-3 but up 40-30 in the game. I missed a couple of shots, she went up 5-3 and I let her get away.”

Fradkin, who later partnered fellow American Spencer Brachman to beat Bermuda’s Trey Mallory and Matthew Doe, of Britain, 6-4, 6-4 in the doubles final, won the singles titles in straight sets.

Fradkin was leading 5-1 in the first set when a shower halted the match. In the second set he won the first game before Heck tied it, before three straight games put Fradkin in control at 4-1 up. Heck held serve to make it 4-2 before Fradkin won his next two games on serve for the win.

“I had a lot of momentum during the rain delay, which slowed me down a little bit,” said Fradkin, who lives in New York. “I started a little slow in the second set but was able to pull through.

“He was getting very down on himself towards the end of the first set. He then talked to his coach, changed some things and I changed some things. The second set was a little bit harder.

“His win [over Brachman] was a big upset, both players are very good. It’s been a good week.”