Bermuda's top tennis girls notched their first victory in El Salvador over the weekend when they beat Aruba 3-0 in the junior Fed Cup.

The team of Catherine Cooke, Cayla Cross and Carolita Joseph had lost all three of their previous ties without registering a single win, but took great delight on Saturday in handing out a similar battering to the opposition.

Number one seed Cross defeated Ayoni Guda 7-6, 3-6, 6-2 while Cooke then dispatched Nagela Buckley 6-0, 6-1.

In the doubles, Cross and Joseph crushed Buckley and Josephine Williams 6-2, 6-3 to take the match in convincing style.

In Davis Cup action, however, the Bermuda boys were once again on the receiving end of a thorough beating, this time at the hands of Trinidad and Tobago.

At first string, Philip Cooper lost in straight sets to Liam Gomez 6-1, 6-2 while Leonard Wade succumbed to Leon Fraser 6-1, 6-3.

And in the doubles the defeat was equally as resounding, with Cooper and Neal Towlson losing 6-1, 6-2 to Gomez and Chris Brash.

The boys lost all four of their Davis Cup ties 3-0.

[bul] The Emerald Financial junior tennis tournament is set to begin today at Grotto Bay.

This year the tournament boasts 50 junior players — up 60 percent from last year — and organisers expect the event to continue to grow in popularity.

All of the top youngsters who recently finished playing in the junior Fed and Davis Cups in El Salvador will have returned in time to compete.

This year's the top seeds are Christopher Rego in the boys' 10 and 12 divisions, Neal Towlson in the boys' 14, Alexander Cooper in the boy 16 and 18, Taylor McHarg in the girls' 10, Tyler Smith in the girls' 12, Catherine Cooke in the girls' 14 and Cayla Cross in the girls' 16 and 18.

All draws and schedules can be found on the web at www.mandersislandtennis.com under tournaments.