Boys & Girls: Copa Barranquilla, outdoor clay - Grade 1 (Week 3)

Spectator · All-time great

Boys & Girls: Copa Barranquilla, outdoor clay - Grade 1 (Week 3)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Fran lost out in the doubles QF, but a really good chance to fly up the junior rankings as she seems to be staying on to play the South American swing that helped Emily Appleton fly up the rankings last year.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Sorry I missed Fran, thinking her South American venture started next week. Unofficially she lost her quarter-final 5-7 6-4 7-5 but i can't find the score yet on any official site. Whilst checking I came across an article from Colombia (in Spanish) which shows they have picked up on Fran's mental strength in the face of adversity:

www.elheraldo.co/deportes/francesca-la-tenista-con-ocho-dedos-poderosos-321245

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yasmine Mansouri is one of France's many precocious young players, born 2001, who made the finals of a futures quite recently.

Was top seed but got knocked out in the quarters of the Nationals last summer.

Spectator · All-time great

Thank you for the link to that article, David C. I've always been impressed by her - but that's really extraordinary reading. A little worrying, though, that she has to go for surgery so frequently (as I understood it, the bones on her hand, because they're a different shape from the norm, can start to rip her tendons when she hits the ball hard ... though that may have been misunderstanding thanks to dodgy Spanish!)

She is an amazing young woman, and is certainly succeeding in her aim of making people see that it's possible to succeed by virtue of mental fortitude! All the best to her - and may she indeed reach the heights to which she and her coach aspire.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Thank you for the link to that article, David C. I've always been impressed by her - but that's really extraordinary reading. A little worrying, though, that she has to go for surgery so frequently (as I understood it, the bones on her hand, because they're a different shape from the norm, can start to rip her tendons when she hits the ball hard ... though that may have been misunderstanding thanks to dodgy Spanish!)

She is an amazing young woman, and is certainly succeeding in her aim of making people see that it's possible to succeed by virtue of mental fortitude! All the best to her - and may she indeed reach the heights to which she and her coach aspire.

Indeed. I suspect that your Spanish is better than mine, with much of the detail lost on me. However in an interview with an English paper last year it said " Jones has lost count of the number of operations she has had, although she can confirm that she has needed three bouts of wrist surgery in the past 12 months after the bone started to tear through the tendon."

The scoreline in Fran's quarter-final is now confirmed on ITF