Boys & Girls: 2017 US Open Juniors - Grade A (Week 36)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: 2017 US Open Juniors - Grade A (Week 36)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

I thought he was a gonna. Seems I'm going to have to follow this a bit longer !!

DavidC · Tennis legend

Unfortunately broken to 15 trying to serve out the set, so back at 5-5

DavidC · Tennis legend

Tiebreak to decide the second set

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Come on George (unfortunately I had never heard of you before this tournament, but now I am a fan

!!

DavidC · Tennis legend

6-6 (3-3)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Bah

DavidC · Tennis legend

Not to be - George narrowly misses out on becoming only the third Brit to make a junior slam quarter-final in his antepenultimate junior year this century (something achieved by Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund at the US Open)

R3

Danny Thomas (USA) d. (Q) George Loffhagen 6-1 7-6(5)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That result seems fair, really, given the overall match.

But glad that George at least played a very competitive second set. It's been a very good tournament, at a really important one too, and he'll be up towards the top 50 in the rankings.

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to see how generally competitive George was with the 17 yo ( 18 in November ) JWR 32 (CH 22) even in the first set after these first three games.

I sense from what has been said before and a match like this that George has maybe a good temperament for putting things behind him.

"Hey not a great start, but whatever, let's move on ..."

The young man certainly seems to be heading in a very good direction.

indiana · Tennis legend

Liking "antepenultimate". I trust it's been run by SC

PS : indeed a proper word with definitions all over the place that had managed to bypass me until now. You never stop learning ...

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 7th of September 2017 09:21:20 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Girls Doubles:

R2 (L16) Emily APPLETON (GBR) / Emiliana ARANGO (COL) [6] def. Viktoriia DEMA (UKR) / Mihaela Lorena MARCULESCU (ROU) 6-2 6-0

(yep, Indy, 'antepenultimate' hadn't flashed up on my radar until now, either, but it runs off the tongue nicely and makes sense so that's one to add to the box)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just to note that the lad who beat Aidan in R1 6-4 in the third has made the quarters. One of two Americans in the last 8.

Simon Carr from Ireland lost in three sets, in R3, however.

Argentina also have two lads in the last 8. And one girl. (With Del Po and Schwartzman, too, they're having a very nice event)

The girl who beat Em is also in the last 8. As well as 13 year-old Coco.

TheTraveller2 · Lower Club Player

DavidC wrote:
Not to be - George narrowly misses out on becoming only the third Brit to make a junior slam quarter-final in his antepenultimate junior year this century (something achieved by Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund at the US Open)

R3

Danny Thomas (USA) d. (Q) George Loffhagen 6-1 7-6(5)

Boys and girls?

LordBrownof · Futures level

TheTraveller2 wrote:
DavidC wrote:
Not to be - George narrowly misses out on becoming only the third Brit to make a junior slam quarter-final in his antepenultimate junior year this century (something achieved by Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund at the US Open)

R3

Danny Thomas (USA) d. (Q) George Loffhagen 6-1 7-6(5)
Boys and girls?

No, Katie Swan made the Aussie Final in 2015.