French Open Juniors 2008.

wolf · Tennis legend

RE: French Open Juniors 2008.

john · Top national player

Dan Evans 5-5!

Smethurst looks like he'll win now, up 5-0 final set.

If Evans can join him in round 2, it's been a pretty good day overall.

richo · Junior player

smethy wins 3rd 60 in the space of about 15 mins! gr8 effort from 1 set down altho expected him to win that one
evo 6 5 too the good

richo · Junior player

evo lost the 1st set on a breaker 7-3

wolf · Tennis legend

Evans was 4-2 up in the second when play was suspended.

wolf · Tennis legend

OOP for tommorow
10:00am BST start

2nd on Court 14 - R1 - Evans v Vazquez-Valenzeula 6-7(3), 4-2* to finish
2nd on Court 16 - R1 - Konta v Gervais
3rd on Court 5 - R2 -Smethurst v Ramirez (2)

Doubles Draw is out

Daniel Cox / Timothy Van Tereijden v Julien Obry / Adrien Puget - 4th on Court 6
Thomas Knights / Jose Hernandez v Marcelo Arevalo / Di Wu (5) - 4th on Court 10
Daniel Evans / Daniel Smethurst v Evgeny Donskoy / Andrey Kuznetsov - 5th on Court 16
Neil Pauffley / Marcus Willis v Jose Pereira / Cristobal Saavedra-Corvalan - not on OOP

Jade Curtis / Nikola Hofmanova (6) v Mariya Malkhasyan / Zsofia Susanyi - 5th on Court 6
Johanna Konta / Rebecca Marino v Anna Orlik / Milana Spermo - not on OOP

Salmon · Tennis legend

Second round:

Daniel Smethurst [75] vs. Cesar Ramirez [4] of Mexico
Marcus Willis [18] vs. Grigor Dimitrov [15] of Bulgaria
Jade Curtis [30] vs. Melanie Oudin [2] of the USA

Almost no chance for Smethurst as he is not very good on red clay, compared to Ramirez who reached the quarters here last year and has a G1 on this surface.

Dimitrov may be the favourite for this match, but Willis can very much take it. This boy won a Futures on clay a few days back, by the way!

I must point out that Dimitrov has not mastered Juniors but plays men's tournaments full time and is doing far better than our players this way. But of course, only we follow the proper path to the top 100, so Dimitrov must be rubbish.

Oudin is one hell of a player in the making! She turned 16 last September but is already ranked 257 in the WTA, with a win at Tour level (vs. Maret Ani). Jade will be lucky to win 7 games if Oudin's half as good on clay as she's on hard.

Akhenaten · Pro player

Evo's just taken the 2nd set 6-2 !

Goes into the deciding set.

Akhenaten · Pro player

Dan went 2-0 down, but broke back straight away to take it to 2-2.

alansk · Junior player

4-4 break now evo

alansk · Junior player

2bps

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

alansk wrote:

4-4 break now evo

And he did

Serve it out, Dan!

alansk · Junior player

this would be a good scalp, no?

alansk · Junior player

*0:30 argh

Smidster · Challenger level

4 break points saved