The big news in this event is Mimi Xu (born 2007) who won her way through qualis, beating an Italian woman ranked WTA 733 (as well as a 17 year-old)
She then beat our Emma Wilson in R1 of the main draw.
And 2005-er Talia Neilson-Gatenby also qualified, with wins over the WTA 1195 (although then lost her R1 to another qualifier rather easily)
In the qualis, 2007-born Daniela Piani also got a QR1 win.
Jasmine Conway (2004) was in the MD directly but lost.
(Other juniors who played qualis but lost in QR1, albeit some with very decent scores, include Hannah Smith, Ava Williamson, Fran Davis and Tabitha Holmes)
In the boys, in QR1, Henry Searle, Luca Pow and Yujiro Onuma all lost in Qr1
In Brazil, 25k, Matilda Mut (2004) won her R1 match.
Birmingham women's ITF 25k : two juniors got good wins in the QR1 - with a special shout out for Hep, age 14, who was playing in her first ITF adult event, and defeated a Danish player, ranked 760, in great form, having won the 25k in Loughborough ! (those points not added yet):
There were losses for Issey Purser, Ava Williamson, Fran Davis and Brooke Black (but some decent scores in there)
In the men's Shrewsbury 25k, there were also QR1 losses for Fabio Nestola, Patrick Brady, Yujiro Onuma and young Henry Searle (2006) which was the real stand-out effort, IMO.
Singles: new WTA career highs for our junior girls:
Matilda +5 to 428 and Jasmine +2 to 1029
AND a big improvement in our doubles girls
Loughborough SF points going on for Hannah and Tabitha, and the single point for Jessica and Pauline was enough to give them a ranking, having got 9 from making the QFs in Bath earlier in Jan.
NEW IN
Hannah Smith (2004) at 1151
Tabitha Holmes (2005) at 1181
Jessica Matthews (2004) at 1427
Pauline Jurkowska (2005) at 1427
Mega congrats to all four girls !!!
(and, for completeness, Matilda also has a doubles ranking at 1090
Glasgow W25 R2: Well done to @jconwaytennis on a big career best ranking scalp - Jasmine upsets former top 100 player & no. 3 seed Valeria Savinykh RUS WR 200 (CH 99 in 2012), 828 places above her, 7-6(2) 7-6(5)!
with thanks to steven and his tweets
-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 17th of February 2022 02:20:25 PM