Girls: Nike Junior International Roehampton, grass - Grade 1 (Week 27)

tennischamp · Intermediate Club Player

Girls: Nike Junior International Roehampton, grass - Grade 1 (Week 27)

DavidC · Tennis legend

R2

Thaisa Grana Pedretti (BRA) v Francesca Jones
Elysia Bolton (USA) v (6) Emily Appleton
(WC) Gemma Heath v (Q) Yasmine Mansouri (FRA)
(8) Olga Danilovic (SRB) v (WC) Ali Collins

Oakland2002 · All-time great

To be fair to Cory Gauff, she looked the real deal in today's snapshot, physically mature it wasn't immediately obvious who was the older player by stature or power of shot.

I think she may see a lot of Holly over the next 15 years (my god, maybe longer as neither would have turned 30!)

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to see both Gemma and Emma were in action ( though not a win for Emma ) since one or other must have been the cause of one of the doubles matches in the Maureen Connolly Trophy a few days ago being given to the USA "due to GBR injury".

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Beautiful day down at Roehampton. Glorious weather, some excellent tennis, some pretty poor tennis, some great wins for our kids, some histrionics (mainly from others), ......

Nice to see how some of the 'old' faves are doing (Go, Gemma ! Great match. And Ali did well too, although I can't help feeling it's a shame and a negative that she's dropped out of the US academy and is now back home with Nik Slater)

And good to see the new contingent, of course, although Holly's match was pretty hideous from both girls, and Emma and Esther were well outclassed - Cori Gauff (born 2004) was amazingly impressive - quite a small girl (some of the photos make her seem far bigger) but SO much more inside the court and taking the ball early than Esther.

In answer to Indy's point, I saw Emma hobbling a bit after her match so it may well be her who was carrying an injury. Although I saw no sign of it in her match at all (though I only saw the first set). Certainly Gemma looked fine and she had a pretty hard-fought second set.

indiana · Tennis legend

Thanks for the reports CD. Good for instance to get some context re the standard of the Holly vs Whitney match ( in particular re Whitney, though for both, just seem not suited to grass and / or bad days at the office ? ).

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Thanks for the reports CD. Good for instance to get some context re the standard of the Holly vs Whitney match ( in particular re Whitney, though for both, just seem not suited to grass and / or bad days at the office ? ).

I'm honestly not sure.

It was the sort of juniors match where you get there, early on, and the first seven points you see are three double faults and four crass UEs (and shared equally between the two of them). And the first set didn't get much better. There were flashes of better stuff in the second, for Holly, and Whitney upped it a bit in the third. But, overall, none of it was good really.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Some very good results for out girls today, including a two-set win for Ali against a player ranked WTA 522 (!) and for Gemma against a top-1000 WTA player.

(6) Emily Appleton def. Elysia Bolton (USA) 6-3 6-7(6)

(WC) Gemma Heath def. (Q) Yasmine Mansouri (FRA) WTA WR 956 6-2 5-7 6-4

(WC) Ali Collins def. (8) Olga Danilovic (SRB) WTA WR 522 6-4 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Fran makes it four out of four for the girls today, beating a player WTA ranked 743

R2: Francesca Jones def. Thaisa Grana Pedretti (BRA) 7-6(4) 5-7 7-6(5)

That is a HUGE long match. And Fran was leading the final tie-break 6-1 before losing the next 4 points. Her coach must have been having a stomach acid attack. And then she stopped tormenting him/her and got the last match point

NB I mean this sensitively but, having seen Fran's hands and fingers close up at Wimbly qualis, my admiration for her knows no bounds. It is amazing that she can play as she does, and a real inspiration.

Spectator · All-time great

Hurrah for all the girls! Excellent win from Ali Collins and (especially considering her age) Gemma Heath. And one can never really say enough good things about Francesca Jones - like you, I find her so inspiring. I just hope the physical stress of so long a match didn't do her damage.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Great set of results. Emily plays the current Orange Bowl champion and former world number 5, while Gemma has the former world number 6 (both playing Pro Circuit mainly now). Unfortunately Holly/Emma were replaced by alternates, so it looks as if Emma's injury continues to affect her.

In your welcome report CD you mention histrionics from others - did you see why the Indian girl (Zeel Desai) got defaulted?

R3

(1) Whitney Osuigwe (USA) v Francesca Jones
Kaja Juvan (SLO) v (6) Emily Appleton
(WC) Gemma Heath v Amina Anshba (RUS)
(WC) Ali Collins v Kamilla Rakhimova (RUS)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

No, I'm afraid I didn't David.
Looking at the timetable, it presumably was going on at the same time and on the adjacent court to Ali's, which was a match I was watching. But I was watching Ali's match from one court away i.e. sitting next to Gemma's court. So Ali's court was one court away and therefore Desai's was one even further away. But i certainly didn't hear or notice anything major....

The main histrionics I meant were those of Corentin Moutet which weren't default material but were well over the top in terms of whinging and whining and wailing.... and with a real Oscar theatrical quality of gesturing and posturing.... and Hamish got narked by it....and it got to such a point that the umpire had to get down from his chair and say 'boys, this is a tennis match, a TENNIS match'.

Tennisbrit · Improver

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-- Edited by Tennisbrit on Monday 3rd of July 2017 09:57:07 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well done, Tennisbrit - excellent sleuthing !

DavidC · Tennis legend

Thanks both - racket must have been slammed down with considerable force to bounce up on to Ali's coach. Moutet seems to have an attitude problem - CD reported on a fit of pique of his at the European Championships last year.