Boys & Girls: Canadian Open Junior Championships - Grade 1 (Week 35)

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Boys & Girls: Canadian Open Junior Championships - Grade 1 (Week 35)

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

olly goes down in 3 sets, good week anyway. next week is the big one.

RJA · Hall of fame

Tweet from Oli

Lost 61 36 57 today ! Had a lot of chances today but just didn't take them . Still , happy with the way I'm playing and on to the big one !

Maza1987 · Challenger level

sometimes it;s not the worst thing to not get to the final in a warm up tournie.
he's playing well--get a few matchs, thats all you need from a warm up tournie.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Maza1987 wrote:
sometimes it;s not the worst thing to not get to the final in a warm up tournie.
he's playing well--get a few matchs, thats all you need from a warm up tournie.

It's certainly rare to do the double. In this century only Berankis in 2007 has won the Canadian and US back to back, though oddly Muzza won the Canadian the year before winning the US - an extended warm-up if you like smile

Boys doubles final :

(2) Morgan / Thiem ( GBR / AUT ) d. (7) Dubarenco / Manafov ( MDA / UKR ) 6-1 6-4

DavidC · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Btw "le tiebreak" in French is "le bris d'égalité" in Québecois - they have to complicate it LOL

The normal term I have heard used for a tiebreak by European francophone commentators is "jeu décisif" , though occasionally they will resort to "le tie-break" I've not come across "le bris d'égalité" before but Québécois French seems to be full of local words and expressions, and as different to French as American is to English.

steven · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:
steven wrote:
Btw "le tiebreak" in French is "le bris d'égalité" in Québecois - they have to complicate it LOL

The normal term I have heard used for a tiebreak by European francophone commentators is "jeu décisif" , though occasionally they will resort to "le tie-break" I've not come across "le bris d'égalité" before but Québécois French seems to be full of local words and expressions, and as different to French as American is to English.

Yes, you're right, the official term in French is jeu décisif, even though they tend to use "le tiebreak" when they're not being official, if you see what I mean. That of course makes it even odder that the Canadians feels the need to make up a completely different phrase for it, but as you say, Québecois is to French as American is to English.

I saw a bit of the first set of the doubles Final last night and (as the 1st set scoreline implies), Morgan and Thiem were well on top - the commentator was being particularly complimentary about George's serving, volleying and general variety.

All in all, a very good tournament for the Brits, I think - not always a bad thing not to go all the way in the warm up event, and both Liam (from watching the match) and Oli (from the scoreline) got so close to Horansky that I'd back either of them to beat him if they end up playing him next week. Vesely looks like the favourite for the USO Juniors at the moment though.