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Holly Fischer is in South Africa for a G4 followed by G3. Mark Petchey's youngest daughter Myah is also in the field.

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Holly Fischer v (Q) Biance Van Zyl (RSA)



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Straightforward opener for Holly, and her first seed looks vulnerable, but Myah exited.

R1 (L32)

Holly Fischer d. (Q) Biance Van Zyl (RSA) 6-1 6-1

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(7) Margo Landmann (RSA) v Holly Fischer


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As expected Holly progressed comfortably, but now plays the second seed, who reached a G2 semi recently and beat Gemma Heath en route to a G4 final in the summer.

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Holly Fischer d. (7) Margo Landmann (RSA) 6-2 6-2

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Holly Fischer v (2) Lexie Stevens (NED)


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Lexie is 17 and obviously pretty accomplished at this level, a tall(er) order for Holly (13) perhaps?



-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Thursday 22nd of September 2016 12:01:03 AM

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Not too tall an order for Holly. She won 60 75 and will face an unseeded French girl in the semifinal.

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tharris wrote:

Not too tall an order for Holly. She won 60 75 and will face an unseeded French girl in the semifinal.

 What an excellent result ! smile  (Now that's one fiver that maybe is destined to come in, big time)

 

I've seen the unseeded French 2002 girl who took out the number one seed, but not the 2002 one that Hollie's going to play.

However, Hollie's one, Maelys, made the final of the U14 Nationals in August, which is a big deal.

She's got a decent domestic ranking but will be making a big jump up when the new ones come out. Has played over 80 matches this year.



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Holly also reached the doubles semis (with a South African partner) before exiting. The two aforementioned 2002 French girls are through to the doubles finals as well as the singles semis

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Maelys Bougrat (FRA) v Holly Fischer


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Given Gemma's and Victoria's (just a couple of our quality cohort of 4-5 mid teenagers) performance in a 10K today it paints Holly's performance here, sitting as she does right at the bottom of the teenage ladder, in a very favourable light.

Very exciting with the present crop of older teenagers playing 25K's in the U.S., Emily at Stanford and ranked in top 20, and at least another 2-3 13/14 year olds British women's tennis is developing some depth.



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Excellent result - will hopefully replace one of the two Holly's we're exporting to the US this year wink



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No scores up yet on ITF but there is a promising South African tweet: "Brit Holly Fischer is through to the final of the Curro Junior ITF tennis tournament 1"

The same source has 4th seed Adrienn Nagy (HUN) as the other finalist



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Strongbrow: thanks for that UK junior tennis was at grave risk of Holly depletion in the run up to Christmas! the Emily's have or about to take such a big hit that I can't really see them coming back and it is likely we will only get a short burst of Summer on a brighter note the Katie's have been hammered (only a Katrynza... Does that count, at Nottingham) although being hardy perennials it is inevitably they will return For the time being we are in a generation of nominal diversity. 



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DavidC wrote:

No scores up yet on ITF but there is a promising South African tweet: "Brit Holly Fischer is through to the final of the Curro Junior ITF tennis tournament 1"

The same source has 4th seed Adrienn Nagy (HUN) as the other finalist

 

David's tweet source proves to be wonderfully reliable, and a very comprehensive victory it was too:

SemiFinal:

Holly FISCHER (GBR)     6-3 6-1     Maelys BOUGRAT (FRA)

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Holly FISCHER (GBR)  v Adrienn NAGY (HUN) [4]



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Now, I would hate to tempt fate, but Holly did beat Nagy last year.

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Oakland2002 wrote:

Strongbrow: thanks for that UK junior tennis was at grave risk of Holly depletion in the run up to Christmas! the Emily's have or about to take such a big hit that I can't really see them coming back and it is likely we will only get a short burst of Summer on a brighter note the Katie's have been hammered (only a Katrynza... Does that count, at Nottingham) although being hardy perennials it is inevitably they will return For the time being we are in a generation of nominal diversity. 



-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Friday 23rd of September 2016 08:20:40 PM

 Katrynza is "Pitak the Elder" so doesn't really count as a Katie. There is another promising Holly (Staff) 13yo who lost in the final of the G5 in Ireland to Victoria Allen 15yo who lost in the 10k SF at Nottingham this week to Eden Silva. Hopefully the Holly balance is being restored smile



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tharris wrote:

Now, I would hate to tempt fate, but Holly did beat Nagy last year.

 Thanks for the tip - I hadn't realised they had played before, but Holly won 5-7 6-3 6-2 in a TE14 tournament .  The good news is that she has won in straights today for her first ITF title. I don't have the exact score, but she was leading 6-4 5-0 a few minutes ago, and you can find a few pictures and clips on https://twitter.com/CaylixSport



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