Girls: Easter Bowl Championship (Closed), USA, hard - Grade B1 (Week 14)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Girls: Easter Bowl Championship (Closed), USA, hard - Grade B1 (Week 14)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good luck Katie

paulisi · Tennis legend

Could do with some decent doubles points this week.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Interesting to see Katie's motivation now in Juniors, especially bot being a big event.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

She needs to aim for a top 10 finish at least to get the extra JE next year. Winning big titles would be a bonus

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Katy won 6-3, 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And won her dubs too.

Plays Morgan Coppoc next, 15 year-old wildcard, ranked 321

indiana · Tennis legend

Katy may have some general junior ranking she'd like to reach. But I'd still prefer her mixing in senior events to help her development rather than 'chasing' junior ranking points after any particular ranking and nominal JE priviledge.

The junior Slams fair enough, plus mabe some other biggish junior events such as this one.

That may well be how she'll go ...

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

If she does that and gets good results the ranking will take care of itself. I think it's important for her to mix in senior events too for her development.

I'd suspect she'll play some of the bigger junior clay events leading up to RG juniors. Then maybe some senrio grass events before Roehampton and junior Wimbledon?

paulisi · Tennis legend

I'd expect to see her play the 50K tournaments on the grass in the UK

indiana · Tennis legend

It's now Katie vs the USA in the singles, the New Zealand and Peruvian seeds having lost in R1.

The New Zealand girl is still in the doubles.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Isn't one of the 50K's the same week as junior RG though? Surely better for Katie to experience the junior slam atmosphere?

paulisi · Tennis legend

Mervatron wrote:
Isn't one of the 50K's the same week as junior RG though? Surely better for Katie to experience the junior slam atmosphere?

No idea - I didn't check the dates.

Katie will play RG

Edit - there are three consecutive 50K's, Eastbourne (same week as RG), Surbiton and then Ilkley. Katie will surely play at least one of the two.

-- Edited by paulisi on Wednesday 8th of April 2015 03:35:13 PM

TheTraveller2 · Lower Club Player

The Optimist wrote:
Katy won 6-3, 6-2

Apparently, the girl who Katie beat in the first round is a top-ranked US 13 year old (2001) who is highly thought of by the USTA

Katie Swan leads seeds forward at Easter Bowl

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Also an explanation as to why she didn't play last week.