Gutted.

Or to look on the positive side you might be the first to see a player ranked in top 300 by the end of the year!

I don't know much about Sian either.

She is a 14 year old Welsh girl from Wrexham who has been training at the academy in Bath for the past two years. She is ranked 27 in Europe in 14s at the moment, but has been much higher. She isn't as good as the Rens (or rather, not as impressive as the Rens), but she is a very decent prospect for British tennis. Worth checking out for sure!

Hmm, LTA website says Homewood won 6-1 6-3. Must admit I only had half an eye on the game but I was sure Homewood lost. Maybe I'm going crazy. Hope so because them "shorts" were amazing lol

Went up for another couple of hours. Watched No. 1 seed John McGahon who is ranked in the 1200s. He got smashed up by Jagdev Sagoo 6-0 6-1. Sagdev last played in 2002, at junior level where he was ranked 187. Last record of him playing juniors is in october 2002, just after his 15th birthday. Apparently he had an incredibly bad run of injuries and is only now making his comeback at 19.

He was very impressive indeed and if he can keep up that form he will have no trouble getting ranking points. I've been told he will be entering futures very shortly so keep an eye out for him. McGahon is ranked in 1200s and was never in the match at any point. Sagoo is very powerful off both wings, very accurate groundstrokes, hits a lot of winners and has a decent serve. In my mind, his name is on this trophy already, although lack of match practise may show tomorrow when he has to play 2 matches in one day. Keep an eye out guys, he will rise up the rankings very shortly for sure if he can play like today. I commented afterwards to the guy he was with (his coach I assume, although he was a bit quiet so couldn't really speak to him) that he played very well only to be told, "it was okay, he's played a lot better". A child watching the game told Jagdev on the way off court that he'd "be a professional one day" LOL. Sagoo told him "there's a lot of hard work before that".

Watched Rachel Hall afterwards who is ranked in 1400s. She won a tough 3 setter. I believe there is a phrase for Rachel Hall:

You would crawl a million miles on broken glass just to kiss the exhaust of the van that took her dirty knickers to the launderette.

Its got to be worth a try! I don't think we have anyone in Jersey!

Sagoo is into the final! When I turned up today he had already won his quarter and was on court for his semi, he was a set down but a break up at *3-2 in the second. As soon as I arrived, he proceeded to lose his serve twice and allow Harry Skinner to serve for the match at *5-3. However, Jag broke back and took the set on a tie breaker, before winning the 3rd 6-3. He was visibly tired today, his feet weren't moving like they were yesterday but at the end of tomorrow he will have played 5 matches in 4 days, which will surely do him the power of good. He has a very good temperament on court, very rarely showing any negative emotion. Skinner was very loud and agitated at times, especially when serving for the match, while Jag stayed calm and confident. He never really looked like he thought he was going to lose, even when facing match point in the 2nd set tie breaker.

Clare Rickets was already into the final when I arrived, winning both quarters and semis in easy straight sets, however to my utter devastation Racheal Hall went out in the quarters, meaning her opponent Guxhuli faced Naomi Broady in the semis. I stayed to watch this match despite the absence of the amazing Rachael. Broady won 7-6 7-6. She led 5-1 in the first set at one point.

Broady is very tall (pretty scary in fact. how does a 16 year old girl get that tall?). That obviously helps with the serve, which is pretty big. She hits the ball cleanly and very hard. Guxhuli played pretty well to stay with her, but Naomi's advantage of having the bigger serve ultimately told in both breakers. I don't think she played near her best today, she was getting fairly frustrated at times. Will be interesting to see what she can produce tomorrow when facing the higher ranked Ricketts.

I got a few photos of Sagoo and Broady on my phone and also videoed the last couple of points of Naomi's matches. Going to take me a while to work out how to show you them though, so bear with me lol. Will try to get some more tomorrow.