Boys & Girls: Roland Garros French Junior Championsips, clay - Grade A (Week 23)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: Roland Garros French Junior Championsips, clay - Grade A (Week 23)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Emma takes the first set 6-4 but George is down a break 3-4* in set 2

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Emily now cruising 6-4 *3-0.

indiana · Tennis legend

C'mon Emma !

We have quite enough Emilys already though indeed being an Emma hardly hugely helps.

Mervatron2 · Futures level

Emma almost mucked that up. Served for it at 5-2 got broken but broke and won the match 6-4 6-3

DavidC · Tennis legend

Emma gets over the line 6-4 6-3. George is in a battle with the powerful Dutch boy, losing the second set 6-4, but as in set 2 George has claimed an early break in the decider.

Priesty · Challenger level

Wasserman has recovered from 0-3 and is serving for victory at 5-4....

Come on George!

DavidC · Tennis legend

Deney's power told in the end as George's level dropped

Boys R1 (L64)

Deney Wassermann (NED) d. George Loffhagen 4-6 6-4 6-4

DavidC · Tennis legend

Aidan has a good partner in the doubles, and we are assured of representation in round 2 (plus the winners of the two matches below play each other in round 2). Jack is second on 5 and Aidan second on 9 tomorrow

Boys Doubles R1 (L32)

(WC) Anselmo/Voisin (FRA) v Boyer/Loffhagen (USA/GBR)
Draper/Hijikata (GBR/AUS) v (3) McHugh/Skatov (GBR/RUS)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Well thats an improvement in that George lost to him in two sets a couple of months back.

Emma is one of the 15 year old juniors to take Clara Taurson (they are both late 2002s) to three sets when they met in November 17 in Copenhagen. I think assuming Emma has found her feet at the venue this will be much closer than non Brits would anticipate)

Clara has travelled widely and played a lot over the last 12 months, 12 junior tournaments (including a wins at grade 1 and 2 along with a grade A final in Brazil), 6 seniors including representing Denmark in the Federation cup and a 15K win.

This compares with Emmas 6 junior tournaments (last summer at Roehampton and Wimbledon then back to back tournament wins (3 grade 3 and 1 Grade 2) and 3 senior tournaments over the last year also including a 15k win from qualifying.

My gut feeling is very similar to that after they played in 2017 ie. these are two girls who will play each other a lot over the next 15 years.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Emma interviewed on ITV
https://twitter.com/ITVSport/status/1003362519891603456

indiana · Tennis legend

RedSquirrel wrote:
Emma interviewed on ITV
https://twitter.com/ITVSport/status/1003362519891603456

Thanks. Generally always good to see and hear from our players first hand, particularly the up and coming.

Trains with a "hitter' in Bromley but no coach at the moment. Applications ? Though arguably no coach might be better than some coaches. Choose wisely when you need to.

indiana · Tennis legend

Girls L32 :

Emma Raducanu, age 15, JWR 55 (JCH 48) vs (5) Clara Tauson (DEN), age 15, JWR 8 (= JCH)

H2H : 0-1. Tauson won at 'home' in Copenhagen indoor hard in February 2017 2-6 6-3 6-1

Emma has a 21-0 record in juniors this year with 4 titles ( Grades 3, 2, 2 and 2 ) and in seniors in qualifying and main draw has a 13-2 record including her Israel 15K title in May. Not building her up or anything - but be interesting anyway.

Mervatron2 · Futures level

Nice to hear from Emma in the interview. She will get better at them.

It was shocking to hear she doesn't have a coach. How is that even possible for someone with her potential and talent?

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

It was a decent enough interview, I love what she said about her idol being Li Na and the work ethic. also the fact that she's at a normal school doing normal 15 year old things. I hope they media doesn't jump on her the way they did Robbo.
I was disappointed that they didn't mention that she'd won a 15k already in her fledgling career when they spoke about her afterwards.