Girls: Nike Junior International Nottingham (week 1), hard - Grade 4 (Week 16)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Girls: Nike Junior International Nottingham (week 1), hard - Grade 4 (Week 16)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Mikeeva vs Burrage final?

Although is that Alannah Griffin i see? Might throw a spanner in the works

paulisi · Tennis legend

I'm not sure it's that clear cut, there are a few decent players in that draw that could cause problems

Ema Lazic made a junior final a couple of weeks ago. Olivia Horn put up a decent performance at Gloucester and Georgia and Alannah can be a thorn on their day. Don't write off Eden who has won at this level this year.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good to see quite a few contenders really

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I'll be interested to see how some of the 'outsiders' do too - Donia and Lauryn spring to mind.

I'd have thought that Antonova must be a firm favourite too - she lost 6-4 in the third to Jodie a few months ago in the final, ,beating Lauryn and Holly and others on the way. And has done well in quite a few other tournaments this year, making the final in Sweden and then the semis . .

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Some interesting results today. Ema Lazic was put out by Lauryn. Donia only lost the third set 7-5 to Antonova (the M, not the E), Anastasia needed three sets, Holly H lost a thrid set TB against the number 2 seed. . . .

paulisi · Tennis legend

Surprised we lost one of the Russian twins - Jodie beat both in the Grade 5 at Liverpool, although she was given a good match in the final.

Disappointing that Eden went out so early.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Our crop pf '99s still doing very well, with Jodie, Lauryn and Anastasia all winning today.

Wildcard Sophie Drakeford Lewis is a surprise QF. Louie and Holly H also doing well.

paulisi · Tennis legend

The other Russian twin went out today, which leaves 7 GB girls and a Dutch girl in the QFs.

Jodie should win this.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Annoyingly the link on the LTA website for the singles goes to the doubles draw

Simon · Lower Club Player

Miss D-L has not ventured onto the international stage much in the past (she got two bad draws at these events last year and only collected points for a doubles QF). She is currently the UK number 1 at 18 and under (winning a fairly recent Grade 1 tournie) and number 3 at 16 at under, but also has not ventured into Open tournaments much.

She is also a very good Netball player and is doing well academically so I guess there is the typical priority call between part time international tennis career against getting a good education and playing tennis in the UK when she can. In UK tournaments she has typically lost to the likes of Eden Richardson, but with close score lines.

indiana · Tennis legend

Mervatron, I get the singles draw from the link in David's first post here.

TheTraveller2 · Lower Club Player

To Simon's point above what do people know about whether these girls are in school, academies, home schooled etc? Of the girls in this tournament, I think Burrage, Lazic, Baptiste are all at the school down in Dorset linked to West Hants club?

Others?

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting stuff from Simon re Sophie Drakeford-Lewis, thanks.

Maybe not quite the case though that being number 1 in the Nike British under 18 rankings makes her the UK number 1 at 18 and under" :)

Others will have a much better idea than I though about how significant these rankings are.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Although the internal British rankings are misleading, based on LTA events, they do sometimes shed light on good players unable or unwilling to compete internationally at the time. At the same time last year Emily Arbuthnott was ranked 1, but with a low ITF ranking, and has subsequently played much more on the ITF circuit so is vying to be our highest ranked '97 in ITF

Regarding the Dorset school, Talbot Heath has been quite dominant in schools tennis in recent years. Apart from those mentioned Eliz Maloney reached a TE14 Category 1 final last week

QF

(1) Anastasia Mikheeva v Lauryn John-Baptiste
Phillis Vanenburg (NED) v (6) Holly Hutchinson
(WC) Louie McClelland v (4) Jodie Anna Burrage
(9) Alannah Griffin v (WC) Sophie Drakeford Lewis

-- Edited by DavidC on Thursday 17th of April 2014 06:15:15 PM