Girls: ITF Oslo Open, Norway, hard - Grade 4 (Week 8)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Girls: ITF Oslo Open, Norway, hard - Grade 4 (Week 8)

paulisi · Tennis legend

We have some verygood girls playing here - Jodie, Eden, Georgina, Ema. I would hope we get a winner out of one of them.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Indeed. Keep the titles coming

DavidC · Tennis legend

Jodie was the only one in singles action today, winning easily 6-1 6-0

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Melanie South ‏@melaniesouth 22h

Study session here in Oslo for @RichardsonEden and Emily Appleton. Doubles later today for both of them #A*s pic.twitter.com/OSQixUUuRo

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Nice photo from Melanie of the girls hard at work. (I know these girls are younger but we've had the conversation before - there's no reason why 16 and 17 and 18 year-olds (and indeed older) can't do the same - it's the norm in most countries.).

Anyway, nice one and good luck to all the young tennis players.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Not a great day for the girls, with both Becky and Georgie (plus less surprisingly Emily playing the top seed) losing

R1 (L32)

(1) Claudia Wiktorin (USA) d. Emily Appleton (GBR) 7-5 6-2
Alisa Solovieva (RUS) d. (5) Rebecca Smaller (GBR) 7-5 6-2
(4) Eden Richardson (GBR) d. (Q) Sille Tranberg (DEN) 6-0 6-2
Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR) d. (WC) Synne Braten (NOR) 6-1 6-0
Julie Rosenqvist (SWE) d. (3) Georgina Axon (GBR) 6-3 3-6 6-1
Ema Lazic (GBR) d. Pauline Jahren (NOR) 6-4 7-5

R2

(4) Eden Richardson (GBR) v Ekaterina Korzhova (RUS)
Arezo Ghannadan (SWE) v Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR)
Ema Lazic (GBR) v (2) Berfu Cengiz (TUR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Easy passage for Eden and Jodie today, but their next opponents appear stronger judging by recent results.

R2

(4) Eden Richardson (GBR) d. Ekaterina Korzhova (RUS) 6-2 6-4
Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR) d. Arezo Ghannadan (SWE) 6-1 6-1
(2) Berfu Cengiz (TUR) d. Ema Lazic (GBR) 6-4 1-6 6-2

QF

(4) Eden Richardson (GBR) v (8) Ulyana Grib (BLR)
Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR) v Julie Rosenqvist (SWE)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Eden found her opponent too strong but Jodie impressively swatted aside Georgie's conqueror, reaching the semis for a net loss of just 5 games

QF

(8) Ulyana Grib (BLR) d. (4) Eden Richardson (GBR) 6-3 6-3
Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR) d. Julie Rosenqvist (SWE) 6-0 6-2

SF

Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR) v (2) Berfu Cengiz (TUR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Jodie is on fire this week

SF

Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR) d. (2) Berfu Cengiz (TUR) 6-2 6-1

F

(8) Ulyana Grib (BLR) v Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Jodie has a super game, but at 14 hasn't played much on the junior circuit and her ranking will fly up very quickly. I think she is very talented and will be one to watch.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, Jodie looks another still 14 yo ( like Kate Swan, Anastasia Mikheeva and Georgina Axon ) to keep an eye on.

I see that Georgina was born 26/05/99 and both Anastasia and Jodie were born 28/05/99. Katie's the old one, born 24/03/99.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Good news from Oslo apparently

"The West Hants Club ‏@WestHantsHPC 37s

Massive! Jodie Burrage wins Oslo ITF G4 #leadbyexample"

It means the second successive year a Brit has won the title - Emily Smith the victor last year - and is Jodie's first G4, to follow her G5 success in Liverpool. No score available yet on ITF or Norwegian Tennis Federation site.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Grib got more games than Jodie's other opponents but still didn't extend a set. If you didn't see it last year this is quite a good article about Jodie: www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10141986/Wimbledon-tennis-14-year-old-girl-The-lonely-reality-of-trying-to-get-to-Wimbledon.html

F

Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR) d. (8) Ulyana Grib (BLR) 6-3 6-4

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

I like the fact that we have at least 4 good prospects for the 99's. Hopefully they'll all push each other on. The 97's have come alive in the last 12 months or so. I just get the feeling having followed british tennis for the last 15 years or so that we have bigger groups of juniors coming through each year. Whether they go all the way is another thing. When Bally, Anne,Mel and Katie were coming through it was 1 maybe 2 a year and it certainly helped with those four.