Boys: Solymania ITF Junior Tournament, Egypt, clay - Grade 2 (Week 35)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys: Solymania ITF Junior Tournament, Egypt, clay - Grade 2 (Week 35)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Jay comfortably through to the quarters

R1 (L32)

(2) Jay Clarke d. Mohamed Aboulkassem (EGY) 6-2 6-2

R2

(2) Jay Clarke d. Philipp Klimov (RUS) 6-1 6-4

DavidC · Tennis legend

Jay had to battle but he got the win which should take him back into the top 100. His semi-final opponent has played 4 Brits in recent months and come off second best each time, albeit very narrowly in a final set tiebreak in the final of the Copernicus Cup (to Ewan Moore), so Jay will hope to continue the sequence

QF

(2) Jay Clarke d. Kaya Gore (TUR) 4-6 7-6(3) 6-1

SF

(3) Robert Wrzesinski (LTU) v (2) Jay Clarke

DavidC · Tennis legend

Very convincing from Jay reaching his first final at G2 or above level, ensuring Robert's miserable run against Brits continues. Jay is also in the doubles semis.

SF

(2) Jay Clarke d. (3) Robert Wrzesinski (LTU) 6-3 6-1

F

Vlad Andrei Dancu (ROU) or (4) Mikhail Sokolovskiy (RUS) v (2) Jay Clarke

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Good luck to Jay in his finals, and (as mentioned in the other thread) in ploughing his own furrow up in Sweden, seemingly minus all LTA help (!):

www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/33463000

NB Jay is in both finals, singles and doubles, today - going for the double.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 4th of September 2015 09:10:12 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes as variously mentioned, the LTA seem to have majorly cut back funding, cut back many tournaments and cut the NTC.

They take away with one hand and seemingly with the other as well !

Good luck to Jay and all these players ( junior and senior ) who are getting on with it and finding a way.

Any success will no doubt be down to "tough love". Grr ...

... or will we soon have some new people on board with different ideas and another different direction ? Who knows, probably not the LTA anyway.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 4th of September 2015 02:07:56 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well said.

THe good news, though, is that Jay won the singles, and easily too.

Final

Jay CLARKE (GBR) [2] def, Vlad Andrei DANCU (ROU) 6-3 6-1

That's 100 points (net 70 extra). And the result of the doubles hasn't even been put up yet.....

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 4th of September 2015 05:21:27 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay, well done Jay

BradMarx90 · County player

Good result for Jay!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And just to round it off, Jay and partner won the doubles too - beating the top seeds.

Final:

Jay CLARKE (GBR) / Kristofer SIIMAR (EST) [2] 7-6(5) 6-1 Mikhail SOKOLOVSKIY (RUS) / Robert WRZESINSKI (LTU) [1]

Although, as Daivd said, points are easier to come by this week, given the large number of high-ranking events spreading the opposition around, the same applies to everyone, of course, so a huge well done to Jay for stepping up and taking advantage.

He should be about WR 75 after this week. And with another G2 event next week, has an excellent chance of going even higher.

Bravo.