Boys & Girls: Eddie Herr ITF, USA, clay - Grade 1 (Week 48)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: Eddie Herr ITF, USA, clay - Grade 1 (Week 48)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Drawing a seed proved to be a positive for Finn after a disappointing first two weeks in Mexico, comfortably disposing of the Mexican GA finalist

Boys R1 (L64)

Max Stewart d. (WC) Russell Benkaim (USA) 7-5 6-2
(11) Trent Bryde (USA) d. Barnaby Smith 7-6(6) 6-4
Finn Bass d. (5) Duarte Vale (POR) 6-3 6-0

R2

(1) Miomir Kecmanovic (CRO) v Max Stewart
Finn Bass v TBD

Girls R1 (L64)

(4) Jodie Anna Burrage d. (WC) Sanyukta Gawande (USA) 6-1 7-6(4)

R2

(WC) Marlee Zein (USA) v (4) Jodie Anna Burrage

DavidC · Tennis legend

The rest of round 1 is completed today. In doubles Max teams up with Barnaby whilst Finn is seeded 7 with Marko Miladinovic

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

All three British boys won their doubles today:

R1:

Finn BASS (GBR) / Marko MILADINOVIC (SRB) [7] def. Alberto LIM (PHI) / Sebastian MERMERSKY (BUL) 6-2 6-4

Barnaby SMITH (GBR) / Max STEWART (GBR) def. Trent BRYDE (USA) / Brian CERNOCH (USA) [8] 1-6 7-6(5) [10-5]

DavidC · Tennis legend

Straightforward win for Jodie today, while Max unsurprisingly found the top seed too strong. Finn's result not yet in - the Bulgarian progressed yesterday to face him when his opponent was disqualified for hitting a spectator with a ball

Boys R2

(1) Miomir Kecmanovic (CRO) d. Max Stewart 6-1 6-1
Finn Bass v (Q) Adrian Andreev (BUL)

Girls R2

(4) Jodie Anna Burrage d. (WC) Marlee Zein (USA) 6-1 6-3

R3

(4) Jodie Anna Burrage v (16) Astrid Wanja Brune Olsen (NOR)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

R2: Finn Bass def. (Q) Adrian Andreev (BUL) 6-1 6-7(0) 6-0

The three boys got knocked out of the doubles. Jodie isn't playing doubles.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

The Irish and Croatian tennis federations must be besides themselves with joy on reading this site with the recently converted number 1 and world junior number 1 in the U18s and number 2 in the under 16 boys respectively. I feel this is a hallmark of things to come as Donald Trump shapes his foreign policy (I mean Ukraine and Russia well it's all so close to each other and so far from Trump towers let's just call it one country and I mean who wants that sticky outy bit they call the Crimea? )

I think it's the fact that Miromir Kecmanovic keeps getting labelled as Croatian provides extra motivation, to be honest very surprised Max didn't get baggled, now if Max had been allowed to play in his salmon pink away kit or labelled English it would have been game on.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Thursday 1st of December 2016 05:32:01 AM

DavidC · Tennis legend

I see I inadvertently added to the national misidentifications - in the case of Miomir Kecmanovic (Serbia) that was my faulty memory rather than TennisLink.

Colette has tweeted the line-up for the girls quarters - indicating that the Norwegian girl upset Jodie

DavidC · Tennis legend

ITF confirms a narrow defeat for Jodie, but Finn picks up good points, capitalising on his fine win in round 1. A tough quarter-final against one of the group of talented young Canadians, who hasn't been troubled yet this week, and beat Ryan Storrie in the final of the Belgian G1 earlier this year..

Boys R3

Finn Bass d. Ray Ho (TPE) 1-6 7-6(1) 6-3

QF

Finn Bass v (2) Benjamin Sigouin (CAN)

Girls R3

(16) Astrid Wanja Brune Olsen (NOR) d. (4) Jodie Anna Burrage 7-5 0-6 6-4

DavidC · Tennis legend

As expected Finn found the Canadian too tough (the top 3 seeds made the semis)

Boys QF

(2) Benjamin Sigouin (CAN) d. Finn Bass 6-3 6-3