Girls: International Casablanca Junior Cup, MEX, GA (Week 0)

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Girls: International Casablanca Junior Cup, MEX, GA (Week 0)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Heather's withdrawal enabled Lucy to move into the seeds, and she has a friendly draw to reach her seeded position - but then will probably be up against the in-form top seed Gabriela Dabrowski.

Jess and Jen both face potentially tricky second round matches (against Swedish Fed Cup player Ellen Allgurin and third seed Sachie Ishizu respectively), but neither can complain about their first-round draws. Jo has a decent opener, but will still do well to advance to meet Vickery

-- Edited by DavidC on Monday 28th of December 2009 10:08:20 AM

Smidster · Challenger level

Lets hope for a godo start to the year.

Incidentally I am pleased to see the ITF website is now putting the entry lists on the tournament profiles

DavidC · Tennis legend

The early results are good:

R1 (L64)

(16) Lucy Brown (GBR) d. (LL) Maria Jose Cardona (COL) 6-1 6-4
Jennifer Ren (GBR) d. Maria Elise Casares (ECU) 6-4 4-6 6-2

DavidC · Tennis legend

The remaining matches went according to expectation:

(10) Jessica Ren (GBR) d. Ana Sofia Sanchez (MEX) 6-3 6-0
Kerrie Cartwright (BAH) d. Joanna Henderson (GBR) 6-1 6-4

Smidster · Challenger level

R2:

Marcela ZACARIAS (MEX) Vs Lucy BROWN (GBR) (16)
Sachie ISHIZU (JPN) (3) Vs Jennifer REN (GBR)
Ellen ALLGURIN (SWE) Vs Jessica REN (GBR) (10)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Jess had a titanic battle last time she met Ellen, just shading the High Coast semi (going on to take the title), which avenged a defeat earlier in the year. The Rens are seeded six in the doubles, and there is only doubles action for the girls today.

Bolt · Lower Club Player

The five sets Allgurin & Jess have played this year all have finished either 6-4 or 7-5 will be a good pointer to Jess's improvement or otherwise
Jess & Jen won there doubles match 6-4, 2-6, 10-6 unfortunately Joanna & Lucy lost there doubles 4-6, 6-2, 10-7

philwrig · Hall of fame

I think Jess has improved so let's hope for a more straightforward scoreline.

DavidC · Tennis legend

The good news is that Lucy has taken advantage of her kind draw, and will be on the cusp of the top 100 as a result. The bad news is that the Orange Bowl winner is next up.

R2:

(16) Lucy Brown (GBR) d. Marcela ZACARIAS (MEX) 7-5 6-0
(3) Sachie Ishizu (JPN) d. Jennifer Ren (GBR) 6-4 7-6(4)
Ellen Allgurin (SWE) Vs (10) Jessica Ren (GBR)

R3

(1) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) v (16) Lucy Brown (GBR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:

I think Jess has improved so let's hope for a more straightforward scoreline.

Well it was certainly a more straightforward scoreline, but not in the way we wanted cry

- perhaps Ellen has improved more than Jess (not obvious from recent results) or Jess just had one of those days.

R2
Ellen Allgurin (SWE) d. (10) Jessica Ren (GBR) 6-1 6-3

philwrig · Hall of fame

Disappointing

Maza1987 · Challenger level

At least there was some better news in the dubs

Ren (GBR) / Ren (GBR) (6) d. Latycheva (CAN) / Leykina (RUS) 6:4 6:4

DavidC · Tennis legend

R3

(1) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) d. (16) Lucy Brown (GBR) 6-1 6-2

Smidster · Challenger level

Sadly bad news from the doubles

GARCIA (FRA) / JEANJEAN (FRA) defeated REN (GBR) / REN (GBR) (6) 4-6 7-5 [10-6]