13 year-old Eden Silva was featured in a controversial Channel 4 documentary about talented sporting kids (and their parents) last year. She retained her place on the Team Aegon programme despite struggling to make an impression on the Tennis Europe circuit (though she missed several months for some reason), so the LTA clearly believe in her potential to develop. This week she makes her junior ITF debut courtesy of a wildcard
Silghtly off topic, but do you ever wonder how some of these small tournaments get their names?
I mean, why would a city in Northern Poland decide to call their junior tennis tournament the "Magnolia Cup" Apart from the associations of the colour with drabness, why name it in English at all?
Silghtly off topic, but do you ever wonder how some of these small tournaments get their names?
I mean, why would a city in Northern Poland decide to call their junior tennis tournament the "Magnolia Cup" Apart from the associations of the colour with drabness, why name it in English at all?
Good question. In this particular case though according to one guide "Szczecin's magnolias are widely known due to the fact that Szczecin is the only one large city in Poland where you can find so large amount of magnolia trees growing on the streets and in parks." There are also Magnolia Cups in Szczecin in other sports, but I don't know why they have opted to keep the English word for the shrub - perhaps they are too uncommon elsewhere in Poland, as hinted above.
Back on topic it was a very brief debut for Eden
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Hannah Nagel (GER) d. (WC) Eden Silva (GBR) 6-2 6-0
