Boys and Girls Metropolia Orange Bowl Grade A Week 50

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Boys and Girls Metropolia Orange Bowl Grade A Week 50

DavidC · Tennis legend

Izzy struggled on serve for the first set and a bit, but appears to have gained the upper hand now, leading 3-6 6-2 4-0

DavidC · Tennis legend

After some further alarms Izzy comes through. In round 3 she is seeded to play the strong second seed Ivana Jorovic, but she has just dropped the opening set against an American wildcard.

Girls R2

Siqi Cao (CHN) d. Emily Arbuthnott (GBR) 6-3 6-1
(16) Isabelle Wallace (GBR) d. (Q) Jessica Golovin (USA) 3-6 6-2 6-2

DavidC · Tennis legend

Girls R3

(16) Isabelle Wallace (GBR) v (2) Ivana Jorovic (SRB)

Izzy fighting hard against the world no. 11 and Osaka GA winner: currently 5-7 4-1*

DavidC · Tennis legend

Izzy had a setpoint at 5-2 not taken, but has served out to 15 to level at 5-7 6-3

DavidC · Tennis legend

The second seed imposed herself on the decider leaving just doubles involvement

Girls R3

(2) Ivana Jorovic (SRB) d. (16) Isabelle Wallace (GBR) 7-5 3-6 6-1

paulisi · Tennis legend

In the boys doubles, Julian and Alex have paired up and are through to the QF

In the girls doubles, Lana went out in rnd 2, Emily lost in the opening round and Izzy went out in rd 2 despite being seeded.

PockyTastic · Futures level

Izzy should be proud of how she has performed these past 3 weeks. In each event she has met or exceeded the expectations of her ranking:
Yucatan - seeded to make the QF which she achieved
Eddie Herr - seeded to go out in the 1st round, she knocked out a seed but went out in round 2
Orange Bowl - seeded to make the 3rd round which she achieved

She also took out Rianna Valdes in Mexico who had beaten her comfortably in August and at Eddie Herr she took out a top 50 Russian in round 1. Each of her losses were three setters (although each ended in a 6-1 final set against her) to decent players:
Yucatan - Cisernos who won the event
Eddie Herr - Cristian who made the SFs and took out Tornado Black in straight sets on the way
Orange Bowl - Jorovic who recently won the Osaka Grade A

To add a pinch of salt, she has not marked herself out as a future slam champion, but she has done well and I for one am excited to see how she fares in junior slams next year.

Spectator · All-time great

For the sake of completion, in the QF, R. Safiullin (RUS) / N. Serdarusic (CRO) [4] d. Cash (GBR) / A. Sendegeya (GBR) 6-2, 1-6, 10-7.

And for the record, the final will apparently be contested by two 15-year-olds: Stefan Kozlov and Francis Tiafoe. Is that a first for a Grade A?

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Having seen Kozlov at Wimbledon not surprised by this at all

Spectator · All-time great

Interesting year, though. First time I can remember in a while that not only had most of the top 18s effectively abandoned juniors by mid-year, but even most of the top 17s (Coric, Quinzi, Garin, Kokkinakis, Khachanov) had left after the US Open.

Spectator · All-time great

Just to note that ex-Brit Naiktha Bains won the girls doubles here with Tornado Alicia Black, having won the girls doubles at the Eddie Herr with Anna Bondar.