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DavidC


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The COSAT circuit in Latin America starts with some G1 events in January and ends with a mixture of G1/GA events in March, but February has some weaker G2s. This one in Chile is no exception, with the second seed ranked 145, and hoping to take advantage are Fran Jones and Emily Appleton

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(8) Emily Appleton bye

(5) Francesca Jones bye



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Both Fran and Emily play Argentinians today who have modest ITF records so far.

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Agustina Rimoldi Godoy (ARG) v (8) Emily Appleton
(5) Francesca Jones v Maria Celeste Lamagni (ARG)

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As predicted by DavidC, the girls won easily, Emily by 0&0 and Fran by 4&1

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Nice starts :)

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Emily and Fran teamed up in the doubles as third seeds, but lost their opener in a match tiebreak

R3

(12) Nada Dimovska (USA) v (8) Emily Appleton
(5) Francesca Jones v (10) Brindtha Ramasamy (CAN)

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Still no problem for the girls :

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(8) Emily Appleton def. (12) Nada Dimovska (USA) 6-2 6-3

(5) Francesca Jones def. (10) Brindtha Ramasamy (CAN) 6-0 6-0

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Good stuff again :D

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I'm guessing these are LTA funded trips as Ali Collins joins them for the next two weeks.

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The Peruvian numbers 1 and 2 provide quarter-final opposition, which should prove tougher than the early rounds. Dominique was a finalist here last year and reached a G1 final last month.

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(1) Dominique Schaefer (PER) v (8) Emily Appleton
(5) Francesca Jones v (4) Anastasia Iamachkine (PER)

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And Emily's done it - taking out the top seed

Emily won, 6-4 3-6 6-2

Fran lost, 6-1 7-5


That's a net +35 points for Emily, so far, and is her biggest point scorer to date. Well done, Em App !

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Brilliant; well done Emily App :D

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I'm not sure what the plan is, but I assume Emily is pushing to get her junior ranking inside the top 50, which she is capable and qualify for junior slams, rather than playing main tour regularly.
I can see her having two or three very good weeks.
Currently JWR 252. Will climb at least 50 places this week and I suspect more which another grade 2 and two grade 1's to come.

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Given her superb GCSEs last summer, I assume she has moved on to A levels and will have to juggle her tennis with her studies (only an assumption).

But she's managed to do that very successfully up till now so no reason it shouldn't continue.

However, it makes out and out focus on getting that junior ranking up more tricky.

And, given her father's story, I've never got the impression that it was her main aim. She'll get a wildcard for Wimbly juniors this year, I'd have thought.

Pretty sure that playing the main tour regularly is not in her plans at the moment.

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Am I right in thinking AS exams in Year 12 have now been phased out? If so, Emily has a bit more breathing space this academic year to play these junior tournaments and hopefully really leap up the rankings; very nice start here :)

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I believe we have a finalist.

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