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paulisi


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I've been down to watch final qualifying today as it is only 5 mins down the road.

The standard was higher than I expected in general.

In the girls Georgie Walker was very impressive and probably the best mover on court, I've seen for a while. Nell Miller is only 14, but qualified comfortably and hit some classy backhand winners.

In the boys 15 yr old Damian Rodriquez qualified, but was really pushed by Tommy Cartledge. A shout out for 14 yr old Aidan McHugh who made it to final qualifier.

Marcus Walters is top seed after the late withdrawal of Dan Little. Katy Weymouth is the top seed in the girls.

I'm hoping to get down on Thursday as I cannot make the finals on Saturday.



-- Edited by paulisi on Sunday 16th of November 2014 06:55:04 PM

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Drawsheets at www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx

Just one non-Brit seed in the boys and two in the girls. Georgie W gets eighth seed Holly Horsfall

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Very strange schedule for today - 30 out of 32 singles and no doubles

I'm guessing tomorrow will be mainly doubles matches

A few results in and the only suprises by seeding(seeding not too reliable at this level)

Jack Molloy lost and Barnaby Thorold took out the US 8th seed

No girls results through yet, but they didn't start until after lunch.



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Some girls results in now - Florence Abbott took out the Austrian third seed, second seed Megan Davies was pushed to 6-4 in the third by one of our top under 14s Ali Collins, while another (Eliz Maloney) won her first ITF match

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Eliz my pick to win this week.

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Florence lost to Georgie in the qualifiers, but got in as a LL. I thought she had a decent game. She hits the ball very hard and got some quality winners, but also the ball kept coming back and she tried to force it and made mistakes.

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With just 1 girls singles match to go to complete all the first round matches - we only have 3 overseas players left on each of the boys and girls draws and half of those are Irish.

The last game - Holly Horsfall v Georgie Walker could be very interesting.

Good win for young Nell this morning.

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Holly won in 3, but keep an eye out for Georgie in the future

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Marcus Walters, the top seed, lost to the Irish lad and Freddie McGeechan lost to the Italian lad, but Matt Story took out the French boy.

A few of the boys to finish off and the girls to start today.

Still hoping to get to see the singles QF tomorrow and doubles SF

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Both top seeds have fallen as Katy Weymouth loses in 3

Another big win for Nell Miler taking out one of the Irish seeded girls

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Will be interesting to see how Nell does against Donia.

It seems to me that Donia has been getting stronger and stronger - I haven't seen her for ages - wonder if she's grown a little - she was always very slight and it seemed to hinder her a tad.

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Boys QF

Simon Carr (IRL) v (7) Lucas Taylor
(Q)Damian Rodriguez v Matthew Story
(6) Ben Draper v Iuca Prevosto (ITA)
Joe Tyler v (2) Luke Oakley

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Girls QF

(4) Donia Abdel-Aziz v (Q) Nell Miller
Joely Lomas v (WC) Eliz Maloney
Ellie-Rose Griffiths v (2) Megan Davies

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In the boys, wins for Simon Carr, Matt Storey, Ben Draper and Luke Oakley.

Simon Carr was the star player and he seemed to have gears when needed. That was a high quality match. The others were fairly straight forward wins although Luke was pushed a bit in the second set.

As for the girls, I watched the first set of Eliz and she was far too consistent for Joely.
Donia seemed quite a nice player, great defences and very good approaching and at the net and poor Nell just got more and more frustrated and even that fantastic backhand couldn't breach Donia's defences.
Match of the day was Ellie v Megan. Good long powerful rallies with some terrific winners. Megan, especially in the first set, was finding fantastic angles and winners from all over the place. That match would have graced the final.

Simon Carr will probably win the boys event.

I'm expecting a Megan v Donia final and Megan should be too strong.

Some nice doubles matches, with the Scottish girls coming back from 7-9 down in the MTB(Ali Collins star player) and Will and Joe looked a well organised pairing.


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Thanks for the reports. Ellie-Rose looked a bright prospect last year as an under 14, but has struggled this, so good that you reckoned her match to be a highlight.

Boys QF

Simon Carr (IRL) d. (7) Lucas Taylor 7-6(5) 6-3
Matthew Story d. (Q)Damian Rodriguez 6-1 6-2
(6) Ben Draper d. Iuca Prevosto (ITA) 6-3 6-4
(2) Luke Oakley d. Joe Tyler 6-2 7-5

SF

Simon Carr (IRL) v Matthew Story
(6) Ben Draper v (2) Luke Oakley

Doubles F

(1) McGeehan/Taylor v Davies/Tyler

Girls QF

(4) Donia Abdel-Aziz d. (Q) Nell Miller 6-1 6-4
(WC) Eliz Maloney d. Joely Lomas 6-2 6-1
(2) Megan Davies d. Ellie-Rose Griffiths 6-2 7-5

SF

Jennifer Timotin (IRL) v (4) Donia Abdel-Aziz
(WC) Eliz Maloney v (2) Megan Davies

Doubles F

Collins/McClelland v Lomas/Van Heuvelen

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