Not a great day for the girls with Lana retiring, Emily continuing her disappointing start to the year and Izzy frustratingly edged out by a strong opponent. Joel earns a crack at the younger of the much vaunted Ymer brothers
Boys R1 (L32)
Joel Cannell (GBR) d. (Q) Denys Klok (UKR) 6-4 6-1
R2
Joel Cannell (GBR) v Mikael Ymer (SWE)
Girls R1 (L32)
Beatrice Lombardo (ITA) d. Lana Rush (GBR) 4-0 rtd
Lucie Wargnier (FRA) d. (3) Isabelle Wallace (GBR) 5-7 7-6(3) 6-2
(5) Gabriella Taylor (GBR) d. (Q) Carla Hassaine (FRA) 6-3 6-3
Mirabelle Njoze (GBR) d. (7) Manca Pislak (SLO) 6-4 6-1
(Q) Lisa Bognard (FRA) d. Emily Smith (GBR) 7-6(5) 6-1
R2
(5) Gabriella Taylor (GBR) v Julia Grabher (AUT)
Mirabelle Njoze (GBR) v Vinja Lehmann (GER)
Not really stop the press stuff, but just to add that Mirabelle has been playing quite a lot of domestic regular tennis:
winning the Open women's draw in the TC Vignal tournament (total prize money 1200 euros) very easily against a decentish ranked Bulgarian player,
and making the semis of her own club's tournament (a 2400 euro tournament) before losing in a close match to a 25 year-old French woman ranked two tiers above Mirabelle (just at the cut-off of where the best 50 or so national rankings start)
Also, winning all her team matches (but against lowish ranked players - guess her club's team must be in quite a low division).
