Boys & Girls: ITF Junior Cap d'Ail, France - clay - Grade 2 (Week 14)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: ITF Junior Cap d'Ail, France - clay - Grade 2 (Week 14)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As expected, unfortunately:

QR2:

Valentin VACHEROT (FRA) def. Jeremy GSCHWENDTNER (GBR) [8] 6-4 6-2

DavidC · Tennis legend

The main draw starts tomorrow with live scoring at www.tennisticker.de/FRA/FRA2761/sb.html

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Not the best of draws....

In the main draw, Ben has the top seed, Louis Tessa, JWR 51, ATP 1366, who lost in the final of the Grade 1 to Ryan Storrie a couple of weeks back.

Jack Molloy plays Jaimee Floyd Angel (born 2000), who beat jack in three sets last time they played (and defeated Alexis Canter earlier this year)

In the girls, two get wildcards, which you'd think was promising, but Ema gets Manon Leonard, the lowly ranked girl, born 2001, who took Tara to 4-6 in the third, a fortnight ago, having beaten the WTA 344 Slovak in the QR1, and Georgie gets Bencheikh, the 14 year-old top youngster in France (although Georgie beat her about 6 months ago and a couple of other girls are now challenging her 'top dog' spot). Ali Collins has drawn a Swiss girl, Kung.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Good effort from Ben but tough ask against the top seed and no cigar. Ali came through fine.

R1:

Louis TESSA (FRA) [1] def. Ben DRAPER (GBR) 6-2 6-7(2) 6-1

Ali COLLINS (GBR) def. Leonie KUNG (SUI) 6-1 6-3

DavidC · Tennis legend

Ali next takes on the second seed, who won her first match of the year today, but lost to Ema in Australia

Boys R1

(1) Louis Tessa (FRA) d. Ben Draper 6-2 6-7(2) 6-1
Jaimee Floyd Angel (FRA) v Jack Molloy

Girls R1

(WC) Loudmilla Bencheikh (FRA) v (8) Georgina Axon
(WC) Manon Leonard (FRA) v (4) Ema Lazic
Ali Collins d. Leonie Kung (SUI) 6-1 6-3

R2

Ali Collins v (2) Oana Gavrila (ROU)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

It took Georgie three sets but she managed to beat the youngster nicely in the end, as per last time they met.

R1: Georgina Axon def. (wc) Loudmilla Bencheikh 6-3 2-6 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great results from the Brits. With Jack getting revenge for the loss last time, and Ema putting Manon nicely back in her place

(tennis is a great game - you take out a top 350 player one week, and lose to an unranked junior, only about 100 even in the junior rankings the next....)

Jack Molloy def. Jaimee Floyd Angel (FRA) 7-5 6-3

Girls R1

(8) Georgina Axon def. (WC) Loudmilla Bencheikh (FRA) 6-3 2-6 6-2
(4) Ema Lazic def. (WC) Manon Leonard (FRA) 6-2 7-5

DavidC · Tennis legend

All 3 winners today face qualifiers in round 2. Luca Prevosto is very underranked though, having reached a G1 semi this year following 9 months out

Boys R2

(Q) Luca Prevosto (ITA) v Jack Molloy

Girls R2

(Q) Eva Vedder (NED) v (8) Georgina Axon
(Q) Enola Chiesa (ITA) v (4) Ema Lazic
Ali Collins v (2) Oana Gavrila (ROU)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Jack lost in three, but excellent wins for Ema and Ali and Georgie has taken the opening set as well

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys R2

(Q) Luca Prevosto (ITA) d. Jack Molloy 3-6 6-1 6-1

Girls R2

(8) Georgina Axon d. (Q) Eva Vedder (NED) 6-3 6-2
(4) Ema Lazic d. (Q) Enola Chiesa (ITA) 6-2 6-4
Ali Collins d. (2) Oana Gavrila (ROU) 6-2 7-6(3)

QF

(1) Tatiana Pieri (ITA) v (8) Georgina Axon
Michaela Bayerlova (CZE) or Yasmine Mansouri (FRA) v (4) Ema Lazic
Ludmilla Samsonova (ITA) v Ali Collins

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Great set of results from the Girls, especially Ali :D

paulisi · Tennis legend

Georgie and Ali are playing doubles together and have made the semis
Ema is still to play her QF doubles
Jack and Ben lost in the QF to the top seeds

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

vohor wrote:
Great set of results from the Girls, especially Ali :D

Yes. Super result from Ali - well done !

Ema and Georgie are only where they should be vis-a-vis seeding, i.e. the quarters, but not to be sniffed at even so smile .....

Georgie & Ali beat the top seeds in the quarters of the dubs, but Ema+ lost hers.

indiana · Tennis legend

Very well done to Ali, beating the number 2 seed in singles and, with Georgina Axon, the number one seed in doubles. With big scores having come off lately, for what it matters, she has dropped back to JWR 201, and she is probably a very dangerous floater at that ranking. Her results already this week will have it on the way up again and she has little to defend in coming months. She seems to follow a quite limited but challenging schedule. I sense that she is being carefully developed.

Among our higher ranked girls, Ema and Georgina seem to get comparatively limited focus as to their future prospects although I believe at least one of them is pretty well regarded and funded by the LTA. I know very little about either, but all the best to them.