Boys & Girls - 49th Trofeo Bonfiglio - Grade A - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls - 49th Trofeo Bonfiglio - Grade A - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Robson gets the SE now.

I think I was really wrong in saying that she shouldn't be playing the big tournaments. The way she always manages to shock us every few months by becoming twice the player that she formerly was, I won't be too surprised if she entered the top 20 later this year, which would enable her to play four extra tournaments.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Tara Moore and Nicola George are in quallies. Good lcuk to both.

Its time Tara started to climb the rankings, she should be top 50 at least now.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Boys qualies draw

Qualifying Draw

Cristina Camilo Rodriguez (COL) vs. Stefano Bettinell (ITA)
(15)Ashley Watling (GBR) - Bye

Riccardo Magni (ITA) vs. Francesco Arciuli (ITA)
(12)Matthew Short (GBR) - Bye

(6)Thomas Knights (GBR) - Bye
Marco Benussi (ITA) vs. Andrei Vasilevski (BLR)

Simon · Lower Club Player

Boys R1
Dan Cox (48) vs Cristobal Saavedra Corvelan CHI (51)
Dan Smethurst (70) vs Henrique Cunha BRA (13) (seed 13)
Neil Pauffley (78) vs Jaan Brunken GER (25) (seed 12)
Dan Evans (49) vs Tennys Sandgren USA (71)
Niall Angus (57) vs Andre Vidhaller BRA (Q) (152)

Marcus Willis (18) (seed 7) beat Ty Trombetta USA (54) 6-3 6-3
Jose Pereira BRA (7) (seed 3) beat Michael Thompson (76) 2-6 6-4 6-4

Good try by Thompson.

-- Edited by Simon at 14:22, 2008-05-19

Simon · Lower Club Player

Girls R1
Laura Robson (117) vs Elena Chernyakova RUS (18) (seed 7)
Johanna Konta AUS/GBR (25) (seed 9) vs Natassia Burnett ITA (97)

Difficult draw for Laura but confidence will be high from her G1 final last week.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Not a very bad draw for Robson, really. Of course... it could have been better, but Chernyakova is the mascot for all overranked players in this world in my opinion. She gets a good win once in a while but she plays loads of weak tourneys and has been stuck in the top 30 ever since I've been following Junior tennis (that may be a slight exagerration!). Anyway, rule 1 of Junior tennis is that if you're female and playing ITFs regularly in your 18th year, you probabaly have no future in the game.

Chernyakova has lost to Rompies and Ormachaea this year and Laura beat them both last week. She also got doubles bagelled by Babos, I see.

Babos is a class player for sure but you should never ever lose that badly to anyone ranked below you. She could have been injured for that, though.

James · Satellite level

Edit: nevermind. [was just asking about results, but it occured to me that its still rather too early.]

-- Edited by James at 16:01, 2008-05-19

Salmon · Tennis legend

Gah! Konta had to retire from her match. She was losing 26 11.

Hope it's not a serious injury but it's a big blow to her rankings quest given how many points were on offer this week and she's a better player than the second seed (who anchors her half).

Smethurst lost by 4 and 1.

Others play tomorrow, Greenleaf thinks.

Simon · Lower Club Player

R1 Boys

Dan Cox (48) beat Cristobal Saavedra Corvelan CHI (51) 6-4 6-1
Henrique Cunha BRA (13) (seed 13) beat Dan Smethurst (70) 6-4 6-1
Jaan Brunken GER (25) (seed 12) beat Neil Pauffley (78) 5-7 6-2 6-1
Tennys Sandgren USA (71) beat Dan Evans (49) 6-7(5) 7-6(3) 6-4
Marcus Willis (18) (seed 7) beat Ty Trombetta USA (54) 6-3 6-3
Jose Pereira BRA (7) (seed 3) beat Michael Thompson (76) 2-6 6-4 6-4

Niall Angus (57) vs Andre Vidhaller BRA (Q) (152)

Drew · May 19, 2008

Not the best of days for the young Brits....surprised at Evo loosing !

Salmon · Tennis legend

Robson won by 4 and 3.

Silver · County player

Fabulous from Laura

I'm looking forward to seeing her progress through the years!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Coxy plays Evgeny Donskoy of Russia, ranked 53.
Willis plays Alessandro Giannessi of Italy, ranked 64.
Angus plays Lazare Kukhalashvili of Georgia, ranked 274.

La Robson plays Nicole Riner of Switzerland, ranked 399.

Laura's opponent is quite good a player, actually. She's ranked so low because she has played just one tournament in the last year but is ranked 427 in WTA. She has won a round at two 25Ks this year and won two 10Ks last year, so she's at least twice the player that Laura beat in the first round.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Robson won by 57 75 76(5).

She keeps getting better and better - I think that by now she's good enough to win 10Ks with some luck.

Willis lost by 3 and 4.

Angus won by 1 and 1!

Cox lost by 64 36 63.