Girls: Nike Junior International Roehampton, grass - Grade 1 (Weeks 25/26)

steven · Tennis legend

Girls: Nike Junior International Roehampton, grass - Grade 1 (Weeks 25/26)

DavidC · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Do we know who has the Wimbledon wildcards? Nastya has withdrawn next week and could have sneaked one.
Katie B and Izzy direct entries, Katie S will probably get in direct.

Wimbledon don't normally announce them in advance, but it should be possible to deduce most of the Brits with WCs from the qualifying draw tomorrow evening. They often allocate 1 or 2 WCs to non-Brits - indeed last year's tournament was won by one (Belinda Bencic)

Just as in the boys a strong top seed awaits. Katie is in one of three doubles pairs involving Brits which are through to the quarters

QF

(1) Catherine Cartan Bellis (USA) v (12) Katie Boulter

paulisi · Tennis legend

Katie B, Izzy and Freya and Mirabelle into the doubles.

Katie S and Bellis lost 14-12 in the MTB

steven · Tennis legend

Katie B has taken the 1st set against top seed Bellis

6-4 *2-3

paulisi · Tennis legend

Unfortunatley that was as good as it got. Katie lost 6-4 2-6 4-6

paulisi · Tennis legend

Freya and Izzy are the only GB players left in the doubles, which may be good news for Freya as she should get a SE into Wimbledon rather than use up a wildcard.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Shame for Katie but a good showing against a very good up and coming player

DavidC · Tennis legend

Doubles SF

Christie/Wallace v (2) Badosa Gibert/Bolsova Zadoinov (ESP)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Freya and Izzy took the first set 6-4, but the Spanish girls are serving for the second set.

paulisi · Tennis legend

No luck the girls lost the MTB 11-9

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Katie B has taken the 1st set against top seed Bellis 6-4 *2-3

Everyone followed Cici Bellis a lot more than most US youngsters because of her connection to Katie Swan: friend, hitting partner, opponent....

The US college/turn pro choice was much reported to (as well as rich dad in finance).

I think news of her recent injuries might have been put up somewhere else on this forum, too, but I read this statement this morning and it is just horrible:

behindtheracquet

During a tournament in Mexico two years ago, after playing against this big hitter, both my arms were sore for about four days. I thought it was normal and something I had to deal with. Everyone just diagnosed it as tendonitis. After getting through the clay and grass with pain doctors prescribed anti-inflammatories, which did help. I went off them, just before Asia, when I thought I was on these pills for too long. I took about 2-3 weeks off during preseason and then did some strengthening. I was at my career high ranking and wanted to continue the momentum. I went into 2017 playing Doha and Dubai. During Dubai I literally felt my elbow crack. It was now Indian Wells and the discomfort in my wrist and elbow was at an all time high. I was fed up with unqualified doctors and went to the Mayo Clinic to get the highest quality MRI. This doctor found three tears in my wrist and that one of the bones in my wrist was too long which caused the tears and impaction. The first surgery ended up solely repairing the tears, as he did not see the original impaction anymore. Shortly after healing my elbow started killing. A doctor examined it and found that two bone spurs hit each other every time I straightened my elbow, and the main one was fractured. This was the crack I felt in Dubai. The bone needed to be shaven down. It was a simple surgery and I got back to playing, but it wasnt over. Pain returned in my wrist from one of the worst impactions ever. The doctor apologized for not doing the surgery earlier but now it was a must. They basically cut my bone in half, shortened it, and then put a plate in. This took some real time before I started hitting, but once I got to the baseline something was wrong. I received this swelling on my arm every time I played. We figured out the plate in my arm was too big, causing inflammation and aggravation. I got the plate out last Monday and thats where I am now. The hardest things have been hitting and getting close to normality and then just being totally set back. There is no way I can do this anymore, but tennis is everything to me. I wouldnt have done this if I didnt love this sport.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I had t seen this, really sad. A great shame and very traumatic for CiCi, it must be really hard to deal with having been so successful and then struggling. It does make Frans career even more remarkable, surgery always being part of her life.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

This is sad but I remember another player in their late teens telling me a similar story about her wrist, that a slight bone spur was causing soft tissue damage and how difficult it had been to get it properly diagnosed. I'm not sure this player ever really came back after surgery (can't remember the name and not a UK player). Do you think it is maybe caused by tennis, maybe something caused by the stress of heavy hitting at a young age, or something genetic which is just bad luck for these young ladies and that tennis has shown it up?