Strydom loses to world no.2

Namibia?s young tennis star Jurgens Strydom nearly caused a major upset at the Junior Wimbledon tennis tournament on June 27, before going down in three sets to the third-seeded Leonardo Mayer from Argentina.
Mayer, who is the second-ranked junior in the world, but the third seed for junior Wimbledon, took the first set 6-4, before Strydom clinched the second set 7-5.
Mayer immediately broke Strydom?s serve which enabled him to win the final set 6-4.
Earlier, Strydom managed to beat Igor Nikitin from the Ukraine 6-2, 6-2, in the first qualifying round and followed this up with another victory by beating Shuhei Uzawa from Japan with a score of 6-4, 7-5. Uzawa is ranked no 80 on the ITF world-ranking list.
Strydom is currently ranked 116th in the world amongst the junior boys and has a career-high ranking of 69th.
Strydom will now team up with Christopher Llewellyn of Great Britain to take on Annas Fattar of morocco and Aly El Sherbini of Egypt in a boys? doubles first round match.
Llewellyn is currently ranked 201st in the world amongst the junior boys and has a career-high ranking of 185th.
Fattar is currently ranked 71st in the world amongst the junior boys and has a career-high ranking of 61st.