Boys & Girls: ITF East Africa 18&U, Kenya, clay - Grade 4 (Week 3)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: ITF East Africa 18&U, Kenya, clay - Grade 4 (Week 3)

Matilda · Newbie

British 15 yr old lad Zyaan Ahmed also won his main draw match.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Matilda wrote:
British 15 yr old lad Zyaan Ahmed also won his main draw match.

Thanks Matilda. I hadn;t forgotten him (just in case you're his mum ! smile ) But he didn't play his R1 till today.

And the poor lad had a gruelling 3 set win and then had to play his round 2 ! Which is not nice.....

Final R1 match:

Zyaan AHMED (GBR) 4-6 7-6(4) 7-6(5) Harry SIMAIOFORIDIS (GRE)

R2: Boys:

Julian ROBINSON (GBR) [12] 6-4 7-5 Hadrien HALLET (BEL)

Damian RODRIGUEZ (GBR) [4] 6-3 6-2 Albert NJOGU (KEN)

Jeremy GSCHWENDTNER (GBR) [3] 6-4 7-5 Marko VUJIC (AUT)

Joshua HOWARD-TRIPP (RSA) [1] 6-1 6-0 Arran TRAINOR (GBR)

Emanuel MALLYA (TAN) [6] 6-3 6-2 Zyaan AHMED (GBR)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 19th of January 2016 08:08:43 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Good work from our '2001' girls this week (both here and Gemma in the Middle East):

R2 Girls:

Jonea BACH (GBR) [5] 7-5 6-2 Karine Marion JOB (FRA)

Esther ADESHINA (GBR) [6] 6-1 6-1 Caterina Luisa ROKKE (NOR)

Into the quarters which will be good extra points.

2 out of 3 for the lads:

R3 Boys:

Sheil KOTECHA (KEN) [7] 6-4 6-3 Julian ROBINSON (GBR) [12]

Damian RODRIGUEZ (GBR) [4] 6-4 7-5 Valentin ROYER (FRA)

Jeremy GSCHWENDTNER (GBR) [3] 6-2 6-2 Olivier KIGOTHO (KEN) [16]

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Oh well, it's all down to JoJo now:

QF:

Draginja VUKOVIC (SRB) [2] 6-1 2-6 7-6(3) Esther ADESHINA (GBR) [6]

So close !!!

QF Boys:

(q) Simon Anthony IVANOV (BUL) 6-4 6-0 Damian RODRIGUEZ (GBR) [4] (the Bulgarian lad is one of the Soto boys)

Ksawery POCIEJ (POL) [5] 7-6(7) 6-1 Jeremy GSCHWENDTNER (GBR) [3]

However, JoJo was leading 6-3 4-1 , against the top seed, when play was suspended.

So fingers crossed for her to finish the job tomorrow.

NB She seems to be at a really nice set-up in France, everything in place to get an excellent foundation, and definitely making good progress - one to watch, I reckon.....

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 21st of January 2016 10:45:27 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Poor Jojo (born 2001) had to play four matches today! (well, three and a bit, at any rate).

Pretty successful:

Quarterfinal

Jonea BACH (GBR) [5] 6-3 6-1 Celestine AVOMO ELLA (GAB) [1]

Great win against a top 300 player

Semifinal

Adithya KARUNARATNE (SRI) [4] 7-5 6-2 Jonea BACH (GBR) [5]

Couldn't keep it going but that's big points for her and a big jump in the rankings coming up.

And into the final with Esther !

Quarterfinal

Esther ADESHINA (GBR) / Jonea BACH (GBR) [3] 6-0 6-1 Judith MURAA (KEN) / Faith Nyabera OMURUNGA (KEN)

Semifinal

Esther ADESHINA (GBR) / Jonea BACH (GBR) [3] 7-6(5) 6-3 Celestine AVOMO ELLA (GAB) / Mariam MUJAWIMANA (BDI) [1]

Good luck to the two of them !

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not to be ...

Final:
Adithya KARUNARATNE (SRI) / Draginja VUKOVIC (SRB) [2] 6-3 7-6(2) Esther ADESHINA (GBR) / Jonea BACH (GBR) [3]

Jeremy G and partner lost in the semis