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Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Juniors playing professional senior tennis

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Loughborough 25ks:

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.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

In Brazil, 25k, Matilda Mut (2004) lost her R2 match.

In Loughborough 25k, Mimi put up a good show but ended up losing in three sets in R2.

However, Tabitha Holmes and Hannah Smith (2004) have made it into the doubles semi-finals, where they lost, but in three sets

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 31st of January 2022 09:10:48 AM

Strongbow · All-time great

Coup Droit wrote:
In Brazil, 25k, Matilda Mut (2004) lost her R2 match.

In Loughborough 25k, Mimi put up a good show but ended up losing in three sets in R2.

However, Tabitha Holmes and Hannah Smith (2004) have made it into the doubles semi-finals.

18 points - so they'll both have doubles rankings on 6th Feb.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

31/01/22

Shout out to Phoenix Weir (born 2005) who is new into the ATP singles rankings at 1777.
He's our only junior boy with an adult single ranking

And to Jasmine Conway (born 2004) who is +97 to 1031
and Matilda Matusevich (born 2004), +7 to 433

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

06/02/22

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):

QR1: (wc) OLUWADARE, Hephzibah (GBR) UNR (age 14, born 2007) def SAMAVATI, Sofia Nami (DEN) (12) 760 6-4 4-6 [10-7]
QR1: CONWAY, Jasmine (GBR) 1031 (age 17, born 2004) def KANEV, Kathleen (GER) (14) 805 6-3 6-2

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.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

07/02/22

GIRLS

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

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

08/02/22

Birmingham 25k

Our young girls going great guns !!!!

R1: LACY, Isabelle (GBR) (WC) UNR (born 2006) def HARRISON, Catherine (USA) (7) 261 6-3 5-7 6-3

R1: NEILSON GATENBY, Talia (WC) UNR (born 2005) def ZAJA, Anna (GER) 323 6-3 7-5

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

09/02/22

Talia led the charge today, beating a top Czech junior

R2: NEILSON GATENBY, Talia (WC) UNR def PALICOVA, Barbora (CZE) (Q) 684 (age 17) 6-4 7-6(4)

R2: LACY, Isabelle (GBR) WC UNR lost to LYS, Eva (GER) 343 3-6 1-6

Tabitha Holmes and Hannah Smith put up a great show against the top seed in doubles, but lost in a MTB
Paulina Jurkowska also lost.

indiana · Tennis legend

Talia will now have a WTA ranking with so far 10 points from her two ITFs.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Life just gets better and better as Talia (2005) now wins her QF, taking out a top 350 player

QF: NEILSON GATENBY, Talia (WC) UNR def OZGEN, Pemra (TUR) 328 7-5 7-5

And a little shout out too for Henry Searle (2006) who is into the SFs of the doubles at the Shrewsbury 25k, and will get a doubles ranking too.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Talia's amazing run carries on:

Birmingham, 25K

SF: NEILSON GATENBY, Talia WC UNR def KEMPEN, Magali (BEL) 461 6-7(5) 7-6(4) 6-1

Henry Searle and partner lost their dubs SF in Shrewsbury 25k

ADD: Talia lost in the final to Sonay.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 16th of February 2022 09:38:52 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

16/02/22

In the Glasgow 25k event, for men and women, we have:

Women

In qualis, nice QR1 wins for Hephzibah Oluwadare, Isabelle Lacy and Jasmine Conway.

QR1 losses for Fran Davies, Adeola Greatorex and Mayela Bassega

Jasmine then won FQR to make the MD

In the MD, a great win for Jasmine in R1.

Ranah Stoiber and Mimi Xu lost though.

Fran Davis got a R1 win in doubles

Men

In qualis, there were QR1 losses for Yujiro Onuma, Matt Rankin, Patrick Brady and Louis Bowden

Patrick Brady and Matt Rankin both got R1 wins in the doubles draw though

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The junior news of the day, from Glasgow:

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

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Matt Rankin and Patrick Brady (not together) also get wins in the doubles in Glasgow and are through to the SFs (different halves of the draw)