The Island's best young tennis players continued to struggle yesterday in El Salvador at the Junior Davis and Fed Cups.

Hard on the heels of their 3-0 defeats on Tuesday, the boys lost 3-0 to a rampant Barbados while the girls went down by a similar margin the hosts El Salvador.

In Davis Cup action, Bermuda's number one seed Leonard Frederick Wade lost 6-2, 6-0 to Barbados' Darian King, while at second string, Phillip Alexander Cooper was defeated by Seanon Williams 6-3, 6-2.

In the doubles, meanwhile, Wade and Cooper lost to Williams and Renaldo Gibson 6-1,6-3.

The girls fared little better in the Fed Cup, where number one seed Cayla Cross was beaten easily by Annette Rios 6-1, 6-0 while Carolita Joseph went down 6-0, 6-1. The young Bermudian duo then won two games in their doubles match against Alexia Casaus and Annette Rios.

Today, the girls take on El Salvador while the boys come up against Puerto Rico.