holy moly, what amazing partners to have.

Thanks for the link Steven. Oli beat Bretting (JWR21) 6-1 6-4 but more noteworthy was that Josh only lost 7-5 6-4 to Pavic (JWR 5) which augurs well for when he makes his ITF Junior debut

Julia Carrot wrote:

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Good Lord, I can hardly contain my excitement.

I do hope that Bahrami and Leconte make a guest appearance, Oli and Liam and Josh will have to be careful that their sides don't split, with laughing at their jolly japes.

 

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I wonder if Oli will get an opportunity to do one of his impersonations. His 'Rafa' made my sides split!

 

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Careful now, you'll soon have poor Ratty going into hysterics 

 

Good find. Hopefully the Golding-Sapwell match will be on tomorrow morning. Sapwell isn't listed on the tournament's site, he seems to have taken the place of world junior no.2 Dominic Thiem. I wonder how Joshua got the gig? Apart from one Swiss boy, all the other "talents" are top "senior" juniors, but Joshua only just turned 15.

I can't say I disagree with Ratty's views on the senior tour, but I do think this juniors/seniors mixed event is quite a good idea.

Sapwell ended up getting thrashed 0 & 1 by Bretting, though he got mild revenge later when he and Muster beat Bretting & Flip 8-4. He has just taken the 1st set off Oli too 7-6(4) - I didn't see that coming!

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Golding won all three of his matches, so presumably he will be in the final.

Broady lost two matches out of three, so he will probably go out.

Sapwell lost all his matches, but two of his scorelines against his considerably older and very highly ranked opponents were very pleasing indeed.

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Yes, Oli is the only player in either group to go through the group phase unbeaten:

1 Golding W 3 (sets 6-1)
2 Bretting W 2 (sets 4-2)
3 Pavic W 1 (sets 2-4)
4 Sapwell W 0 (sets 1-6)

In the other group, the position with the last match just about to start is:

1 Horansky W 2 (sets 4-4)
2= Vesely W 1 (sets 3-2)
2= Ritschard W 1 (sets 3-2)
4 Broady W 1 (sets 3-5)

So, it looks like the winner of Vesely v Ritschard will join Oli in the Final unless H2H is the first tiebreak used if two players have won the same number of matches, in which case Ritschard would still go through if he beats Vesely, but if Vesely wins, Horansky would pip him by virtue of having won the match between them.

-- Edited by steven on Friday 11th of March 2011 04:26:08 PM

1st set Horansky 6-3