Girls: 51st Junior Orange Bowl - U14/U12 (Week 52)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Girls: 51st Junior Orange Bowl - U14/U12 (Week 52)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good to see out top under 14's giving this a go.

Would be nice to see them do well here

DavidC · Tennis legend

Katie Swan came the nearest of all our competitors (boys and girls) in qualifying, losing in 3 sets in final qualifying

DavidC · Tennis legend

Comfortable for the 1998s

Under 14 R1 (L128)

(17) Gabriella Taylor (GBR) d. Naho Suzuki (JPN) 6-2 6-1
(3) Jazzi Plews (GBR) d. Andrea Chavarria (CRI) 6-1 6-1
(17) Camila Vargas Gomez (PER) d. Anastasia Mikheeva (GBR) 7-5 7-4
(8) Maia Lumsden (GBR) d. Maria Turrillo (VEN) 6-4 6-0

R2

(17) Gabriella Taylor (GBR) v Ryan Peus (USA)
May Kimhi (ISR) v (3) Jazzi Plews (GBR)
? v (8) Maia Lumsden (GBR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Sesil may have a 100% record against Brits (on the Pro Circuit at least), but her record doesn't appear to have rubbed off on Gabriel fortunately. In case anyone doesn't realise in the under 12s there are 16 joint top seeds, and frankly their selection involves a lot of guesswork

Under 12 R1 (L128)

(Q) Ekaterina Vinnik (RUS) d. Odette J Beagrie (GBR) 6-2 6-1
Francesca Jones (GBR) d. Gabriel Karatantcheva (BGR) 6-0 6-3

R2

Francesca Jones (GBR) v (1) Dayana Dastremska (UKR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Under 14 R2

(17) Gabriella Taylor (GBR) d. Ryan Peus (USA) 6-1 6-1
May Kimhi (ISR) v (3) Jazzi Plews (GBR)
(LL) Leyla Azaeva (RUS) v (8) Maia Lumsden (GBR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Jazzi will be looking to avenge a defeat to her French opponent at Les Petits As in the next round

Under 14 R2

(17) Gabriella Taylor (GBR) d. Ryan Peus (USA) 6-1 6-1
(3) Jazzi Plews (GBR) d. May Kimhi (ISR) 6-4 6-0
(LL) Leyla Azaeva (RUS) v (8) Maia Lumsden (GBR)

R3

(7) Siqi Cao (CHN) v (17) Gabriella Taylor (GBR)
(17) Theo Gravouil (FRA) v (3) Jazzi Plews (GBR)
(17) Rafaella Baquerizzo (ECU) v (LL) Leyla Azaeva (RUS) or (8) Maia Lumsden (GBR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

One first round result (under 14s) that I missed with an unfortunate ending

(LL) Yana Kochneva (RUS) d. (LL) Katie Swan (GBR) 26 42 Rtd

Maza1987 · Challenger level

(8)Maia Lumsden (GBR) d. (LL)Leyla Azaeva (RUS) 61 76(2)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

DavidC · Tennis legend

Under 12 R2

(1) Dayana Yastremska (UKR) d. Francesca Jones (GBR) 5-7 6-1 6-4

Maza1987 · Challenger level

R3
(17)Gabriella Taylor (GBR) d. (7)Siqi Cao (CHN) 76(1) 62

Waiting on the other results.

DavidC · Tennis legend

R4

(17) Gabriella Taylor (GBR) v (17) Claire Liu (USA)

Liu beat the highly rated American Usue Arconada, who has reached a couple of G4 finals

korriban · Challenger level

Maia won her R3 match yesterday in straight sets, Jazzi lot hers in straight sets including a bagel! Still Maia and Gabriella left in.

Jazzi has had a brilliant year until her US swing at the end, where she didn't keep up the momentum of the previous 6-8 months, when she swept allcomers assunder upto and including G3.

In the US she didn't make much of a dent at the Grade 1 and Grade A U18 Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl tournaments. Then at U14 level went out prematurely (for her seeding) at both the Nike and OBJ tournaments. Hopefully just a lull. In a way it's nice to see Maia and Gabriella performing, because all 3 have played together in GB tournaments and all 3 have big potential, but Jazzi had somewhat stolen a march this year. Healthy competition between 3 world standard players MUST be a good thing for all of them in the long run.

Still waiting on first results from today's R4 (L16) matches.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Jazzi disappointed in the US a little bit at this stage last year. Could be that or could be that she is a confidence player where a couple of losses have derailed her form a little bit, or could be something completely different.