Boys & Girls: 30th International Junior Tournament "Citta' Di Santa Croce" - ITF Grade 1 - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: 30th International Junior Tournament "Citta' Di Santa Croce" - ITF Grade 1 - 2008.

Simon · Lower Club Player

R1
Laura Robson beat Monika Tumova (CZE) (98) 6-2 6-0

Laura plays Paula Ormaechea (ARG) the 14th seed ranked 72 in Round 2

Johanna Konta is down as being AUS again. She is the 4th seed and has a bye to R2.

Simon · Lower Club Player

R1
Lazare Kukhalashvili (GEO) (Q) (256) beat Miall Angus 6-2 1-6 6-3
Neil Pauffley (77) beat Marin Milan (CRO) (83) 6-4 7-6(0)
Alastair Barnes (Q) (295) beat Christopher Diaz Figueroa (GUA) (99) 6-3 6-3
Henrique Cunha (BRA) (28) (seed 7) beat Tom Knights (86) 6-3 6-4
Marcus Willis (17) (seed 3) beat Tomislav Jotovski (MKD) (78) 6-3 3-6 6-3
Michael Thompson (75) beat Tommaso Checcaglini (ITA) (WC) (1149) 6-3 6-1
Andrew Thomas (AUS) (37) (seed 11) beat Ashley Watling (153) 6-0 6-2

A poor result for Niall Angus but a good one for Alistair Barnes.

Simon · Lower Club Player

We also have three teams in the Boys doubles but two of them play each other int he first round:
Thompson / Knights vs Pauffley / Willis
Angus / Watling vs Hoh (AUS) / Lobkov (RUS)

-- Edited by Simon at 10:07, 2008-05-13

Lilly · Social player

Marcus won 6-0 6-1 Neil won 6-2 6-2. Thompson also won in 3 sets.

Salmon · Tennis legend

La Robson beat Ormaechea by 3 and 2.

Simon · Lower Club Player

They have altered the sheet to make Johanna from GBR now.

R2
Johanna Konta beat Malou Ejdesgaard (Den) (150) 6-3 6-4

R3
Johanna Konta beat Pamela Montez (Mex) (101) 6-3 6-1
Laura Robson beat Jessy Rompies (Ina) (seed 3) (19) 7-6(5) 7-5

Fantastic result by Laura beating the world number 19. This result makes her British number 2 with a ranking around 94 - pretty amazing for 14 years old.

Simon · Lower Club Player

R3
Neil Puffley beat Henri Kontinen (Fin) (seed 10) (36) 7-5 7-6(6)
Marcus Willis beat Cristobal Saavedra-Corvalan (Chi) (seed 16) (52) 6-3 6-2
Michael Thompson beat Andrew Thomas (Aus) (seed 11) (37) 6-3 6-4

Another set of excellent results

Salmon · Tennis legend

Laura.

Rompies is highly overranked, though. She's had like four good wins in her career...

Well done to the boys, too.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Robson plays Cindy Chala now, which will be very difficult.

Goldenslam · Intermediate Club Player

AWESOME RESULT FOR PAUFF-DADDY!!! WELL DONE NEIL !!

Simon · Lower Club Player

QF
A poor day for the boys with all three losing although Michael Thonmpson was very close:

Cedrik Stebe (GER) (seed 4) (19) beat Pauffley 6-1 6-2
Henrique Cunha (BRA) (seed 7) (28) beat Willis 6-3 7-5
Marin Draganja (CRO) (seed 13) (45) beat Thompson 3-6 7-6(6) 6-2

Simon · Lower Club Player

In the doubles QF:
Pauffley/Willis beat Djokovic/Basic with a w.o.
and now play the top seeds.

Is Djokovic the brother of the soon to be world number 2?

Simon · Lower Club Player

Much better news in the girls QF where both won:

Johanna Konta (GBR/AUS) Anastasiya Mukhametova (RUS) (126) 6-1 6-3
Laura Robson beat Cindy Chala (Fra) (seed 6) (35) 7-5 0-1 ret

SF
Konta plays Di Giuseppe (Q) (519)
Robson plays Holland (AUS) (seed 11) (64)

However the doubles results show a loss to Laura due to an injury to her - lets hope it will not stop her playing in the semi-finals. I hope (suspect) she has withdrawn from the doubles to save energy for the singles where she is going exceptionally well.

Laura's ranking is up to at least 89 now.
Johanna is up to 18.

-- Edited by Simon at 09:24, 2008-05-16

Lilly · Social player

Marcus and Neil beat the number 1 seeds 75 67 10-8. They are playing the semis later on today.