Other events - week 22

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Other events - week 22

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

In El Salvador:

R2 (L32): Blu BAKER (GBR) 6-3 6-1 Michael AGEE (USA) [15]

In Moldova:

QF: Illya BELOBORODKO (UKR) / Ivan PONOMARENKO (RUS) [2] 6-3 6-4 Bogdan BOCLINCA (MDA) / Toby SAMUEL (GBR)

In Albania:

QF: Mario STINO (AUT) 6-0 7-5 Ying HOU (GBR) [1]

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Blu Baker, who people who follow the juniors' thread will recognise, has got a lot of support here, partly because of his great name.

And partly because he is another 2001-born lad who seems to be making big strides, and is not on most people's radar.

Seemingly, his dad is head tennis coach down in Portsmouth at the tennis Academy there.

And Blu is based now in Florida, under Rene Gomez, and fully committed to making it professionally (although, aren't they all.....)

There's a little clip of one point of yesterday's match on the Gomez Academy Facebook page:

en-gb.facebook.com/gomeztennisacademy/

And which, I note, is 'liked' by Martin Weston.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

In El Salvador:

Blu lost to the fourth seed, who then in turn crushed the 8th seed, so must be a decent player:

R3 (L16): Boruch SKIERKIER (ARG) [4] 7-6(3) 6-3 Blu BAKER (GBR)

And a 14-12 loss in the doubles :::((

R1: Blu BAKER (GBR) / Benjamin KITTAY (USA) 6-3 6-4 Mateo GOMEZ (COL) / Juan Bautista TORRES (ARG)

R2: Blu BAKER (GBR) / Benjamin KITTAY (USA) 6-4 6-3 Zachary GARNER (USA) / Sebastian QUIROS (CRC) [2]

QF: Justin BOULAIS (CAN) / Boruch SKIERKIER (ARG) [5] 6-2 5-7 [14-12] Blu BAKER (GBR) / Benjamin KITTAY (USA)

In Albania:

R1: Stefan DRAGOVIC (MNE) / Ying HOU (GBR) [1] 6-4 6-4 Mario GERASIMOSKI (MKD) / Gjorgji JANKULOVSKI (MKD)

QF: Stefan DRAGOVIC (MNE) / Ying HOU (GBR) [1] 6-4 6-4 Jasin JAKUPI (SUI) / Javier RUIZ (SUI)

SF: Luka Ljuben ANDONOV (MKD) / Francesco BONACIA (ITA) 4-6 6-3 [10-8] Stefan DRAGOVIC (MNE) / Ying HOU (GBR) [1]