Girls: Osaka Mayor's Cup - World Super Junior Tennis Championships, Japan, hard: Grade A (Week 43)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Girls: Osaka Mayor's Cup - World Super Junior Tennis Championships, Japan, hard: Grade A (Week 43)

paulisi · Tennis legend

four successes out of six for the girls - just Jasmine and Emily failing

DavidC · Tennis legend

R1 (L64)

Jodie Anna Burrage d. (LL) Sakura Yonehara (JPN) 6-2 6-1
Anastasia Mikheeva d. Elina Nepliy (RUS) 6-1 6-2
(9) Emily Arbuthnott d. Seira Shimizu (JPN) 6-4 6-2
(5) Katie Swan d. Chihiro Muramatsu (JPN) 7-5 6-4
(3) Kimberly Birrell (AUS) d. Jasmine Amber Asghar 6-3 6-2
(Q) Mayu Iwai (JPN) d. Emily Smith 6-4 7-5

R2

Jodie Anna Burrage v (13) Emilie Francati (DEN)
(11) Raquel Pedraza (USA) v Anastasia Mikheeva
(9) Emily Arbuthnott v Shiori Fukuda (JPN)
(5) Katie Swan v Momoka Chimura (JPN)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Nice revenge for Katie.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

The ITF have put up quite a lot of photos from this event on their junior facebook page including a some of our kids. There's a nice one of Katie S and Jay C plus a few group ones of them all doing fitness training by running up and down the steps in the staged seating!

paulisi · Tennis legend

Wins for Katie and Anastasia - Jodie lost. No sign of a start for Emily, where i'm guessing the weather intervened as her match is scheduled for tomorrow and the doubles hasn't started yet.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Two thumping wins from Nastya, and a relatively friendly looking round 3 against a player crunched by Gabi Taylor in Canada recently

R2

(13) Emilie Francati (DEN) d. Jodie Anna Burrage 6-3 7-5
Anastasia Mikheeva d. (11) Raquel Pedraza (USA) 6-2 6-1
(9) Emily Arbuthnott v Shiori Fukuda (JPN)
(5) Katie Swan d. Momoka Chimura (JPN) 7-5 6-1

R3

Anastasia Mikheeva v Mayuka Aikawa (JPN)
(9) Emily Arbuthnott or Shiori Fukuda (JPN) v Plobrung Plibuech (THA)
(5) Katie Swan v (12) Tamachan Momkoonthod (THA)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

(9) Emily Arbuthnott lost to Shiori Fukuda (JPN) 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3

In the doubles, two rounds were played today, with Jasmine and Jodie winning their two matches and into the quarters, as well as Emily Arbuthnott, playing with Francati of Denmark.

Anastasia/Emily Smith lost in the first round, as did Katie Swan/Cracuin who gave a walkover.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

well done the girls :)

R3

Anastasia Mikheeva def. Mayuka Aikawa (JPN) 7-5 3-6 7-6(4)

(5) Katie Swan def. (12) Tamachan Momkoonthod (THA) 6-0 6-1

Into the quarters . . .

And Emily Arbuthnott and partner won their doubles match, semi-final to be player later today.

(Jodie and Jasmine lost their doubles against the top seeds)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 24th of October 2014 11:33:26 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Very good indeed.

What a whopping scoreline for Katie and these big ranking points for Anastasia already should give her a big jump in the rankings.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Katie doesn't defect to the US at some stage during her career, which I'm sure will be a pretty good one.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

I would have thought that sticking to the LTA would be preferable in almost every sense, from being a big fish in a small pond to the LTA's apparent desire to have star tennis players and thus their willingness to fund and give wild cards galore?

philwrig · Hall of fame

BeefyDeedz wrote:
I would have thought that sticking to the LTA would be preferable in almost every sense, from being a big fish in a small pond to the LTA's apparent desire to have star tennis players and thus their willingness to fund and give wild cards galore?

I'd agree it makes sense commercially, but her transformation to a top junior has happened since her move to the states, plus her accent has changed dramatically.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Article on Katie on the ITF site: www.itftennis.com/news/188711.aspx Big step up required from Nastya tomorrow against the world number 3 (WTA 414). Emily Arbuthnott makes the doubles final, and needs to win to stay in the top 100 after dropping a lot of points in singles

QF

(1) Shilin Xu (CHN) v Anastasia Mikheeva
(5) Katie Swan v (3) Kimberly Birrell (AUS)

Doubles F

(1) Tomic/Xu (AUS/CHN) v (5) Arbuthnott/Francati (GBR/DEN)

indiana · Tennis legend

Can't really say I have seen much reason to be concerned about Katie switching to the USA.

OK, with her father's work she has been very much based in the USA and taken advantage of his green card to play in USA "closed" tournaments, but I don't see that as a worry. And I certainly see no relevance re the accent she has picked up ?!