Boys & Girls: 4th Dubai ITF Junior Championships, hard - Grade 4 (Week 45)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: 4th Dubai ITF Junior Championships, hard - Grade 4 (Week 45)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Mixed results today, though Ewen eliminated a seed comfortably - our seeds play tomorrow

Boys R1 (L32)

(1) Finn Bass v (Q) Louis Pourroy (FRA)
Joshua Rose d. Len Schouten (NED) 6-3 6-3
Ewen Lumsden d. (7) Shramay Dhawan (IND) 6-4 6-0
Aidan McHugh v (Q) Varun Venkat (USA)
(4) Aljaz Jakob Kaplja (SLO) d. (WC) Karim Najia 6-3 6-4
Jack Draper v Patricio Nieto (MEX)

Girls R1 (L332)

Alexandra Hunter d. (WC) Ana Makatsaria (GEO) 6-3 6-4
Rikeetha Pereira (IND) d. Donia Abdel-Aziz 7-6(6) 7-5
(6/Q) Camille Verden Anderson v Rai Sengupta (IND)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Don;t know about a 'mixed' day - seems pretty good to me

Only Donia's result was a tad disappointing (can't really expect the wildcard player, Karim, to beat the 4th seed) and even that was a tight score.

But certainly a good day today !

Wins for Finn, Jack, Camille and Aidan in the singles - full house.

And lots in the doubles too - in fact, the only ones who lost in the doubles were those playing other Brits.

DavidC · Tennis legend

The upper side of mixed I suppose smile - I thought both Ewen and Donia had good chances, given their opponents' records

Boys R1 (L32)

(1) Finn Bass d. (Q) Louis Pourroy (FRA) 6-3 6-1
Aidan McHugh d. (Q) Varun Venkat (USA) 6-1 6-0
Jack Draper d. Patricio Nieto (MEX) 6-4 6-4

R2

(1) Finn Bass v Daniel Cozma (ROU)
(3) Arnaud Destrebecq (BEL) v Joshua Rose
(LL) Ulas Boran Ulosov (TUR) v Ewen Lumsden
(6) Atakan Gezer (TUR) v Aidan McHugh
(5) Siddhant Banthia (IND) v Jack Draper

Girls R1 (L32)

(6/Q) Camille Verden Anderson d. Rai Sengupta (IND) 6-3 6-2

R2

Alexandra Hunter v (8) Akanksha A Bhan (IND)
(6/Q) Camille Verden Anderson v (Q) Ayca Erturk (TUR)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great show from our boys today, with wins for Joshua, Aidan, Jack, and Ewen, beating the 3rd, 5th and 6th seeds - but a rather unexpected loss for our number one seed. Hey ho, such is tennis ...

The girls both lost.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 11th of November 2015 01:21:52 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

Although the girls are out of the singles they did progress separately to the doubles semis

Boys R2

Daniel Cozma (ROU) d. (1) Finn Bass 1-6 6-3 6-2
Joshua Rose d. (3) Arnaud Destrebecq (BEL) 4-6 6-3 7-5
Ewen Lumsden d. (LL) Ulas Boran Ulosov (TUR) 7-5 6-2
Aidan McHugh d. (6) Atakan Gezer (TUR) 6-1 6-1
Jack Draper d. (5) Siddhant Banthia (IND) 7-5 5-7 6-4

QF

Joshua Rose v Ewen Lumsden
Aidan McHugh v Mousa Alkotop (JOR)
Jack Draper v (2) Mohamed Abdel-Aziz (EGY)

Girls R2

(8) Akanksha A Bhan (IND) d. Alexandra Hunter 6-4 6-0
(Q) Ayca Erturk (TUR) d. (6/Q) Camille Verden Anderson 7-5 6-1

DavidC · Tennis legend

Two tight matches in the bottom half, one going our way, but Joshua unfortunately had to retire in the top half, easing Ewen's passage to meet Finn's conqueror

Boys QF

Ewen Lumsden d. Joshua Rose 6-3 4-0 rtd
Aidan McHugh d. Mousa Alkotop (JOR) 7-6(3) 3-6 6-4
(2) Mohamed Abdel-Aziz (EGY) d. Jack Draper 7-5 1-6 7-5

SF

Daniel Cozma (ROU) v Ewen Lumsden
Aidan McHugh v (2) Mohamed Abdel-Aziz (EGY)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Aidan makes his first ITF singles final and there is a doubles title for Finn - his first after a lot of runners-up accolades in singles and doubles

Boys SF

Daniel Cozma (ROU) d. Ewen Lumsden 6-2 6-3
Aidan McHugh d. (2) Mohamed Abdel-Aziz (EGY) 6-7(7) 6-0 6-4

F

Daniel Cozma (ROU) v Aidan McHugh

Doubles F

(1) Abdel-Aziz/Bass (EGY/GBR) d. (4) Kelaidis/Neos (SUI/CYP) 6-4 7-6(4)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Double success now in Dubai smile

F

Aidan McHugh d. Daniel Cozma (ROU) 4-6 6-2 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That's a huge result for 2000-born Aidan - only previously made a semi at a G5 and two R16s at G4s.

Well done (and a big jump up the rankings coming....)