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Coup Droit


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I have just seen that Arthur Féry (born 2002) seems to have switched nationality and is now playing for GBR??

So says the ITF entry list this week in the French Grade 4 ITF event. 

Arthur was much touted in France as a 11-13 year-old. His dad is/was President of Lorient FC, his mum is Olivia Gravereaux, ex 225 WTA. And I believe he's always played for France. (He plays a lto of tournaments out there and is often in the French tennis press so it's just possible that I assumed he played for France. But he made an ITF final in May and I'm pretty sure he wasn't GB then or I'd have noticed him (the drawsheet for the event now says he was but I think when the nationality changes, it does so retrospectively too).  

But I know he's based in London/Wimbledon (because seemingly his dad works there?) and he speaks perfect English - there's a youtube interview with him by our forumite who does the excellent British Tour coverage, Londontennistube (talking of which, it might be just how it comes over, so sorry if I'm wrong, but I think you might be a little confused about tenniseurope events, Londontt, it's not just Tarbes and the Petits As, there's tons of events, a huge circuit - message me if you want, similarly for the domestic French events he's talking about). 

Anyway, assuming I'm not confused re the switch, welcome Arthur, to the GB tennis ranks and good luck  



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 21st of August 2018 08:54:19 AM

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Arthur played his first ITF earlier this year, and was listed as British at the time ( see britishtennis.activeboard.com/t64393248/boys-girls-itf-oslo-open-indoor-hard-grade-4-week-8/ ) and also in the ITF final you refer to ( britishtennis.activeboard.com/t64672600/boys-girls-tirana-open-u18-albania-hard-grade-5-week-22/ ) . There are other references to him as British at an earlier age in Tennis Europe U14 events. Thanks for the background information though.

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THanks for that, David.

I did wonder if I got confused..... my records had gone a bit AWOL

And he seems to come up as French in a lot of the French different sites.

But obviously a rather false alert on my part disbelief

However, good luck to him whatever ! smile

And, yes, his sporting background is interesting......



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Despite (or because of?) my rather incoherent ramblings, Arthur went on to lose anyway :(

France, G4:

Felix GILL (GBR) [4] 6-1 6-0 Herry QUERE (FRA)

Theo GABBANINI (FRA) 2-6 6-2 6-0 Arthur FERY (GBR)


Latvia, G4:

Derrick CHEN (GBR) 6-2 6-3 Alexander Georg MANDMA (EST)

Oscar WEIGHTMAN (GBR) [7] 6-2 6-1 Nino EHRENSCHNEIDER (GER)



Macedonia, G5:

R1 (L48)

Peter ALAM (GBR) [3] BYE

Sam BOSSEM (GBR) [7] BYE

Charlie PENMAN (GBR) 1-0 Retired Stefan POPOVIC (SRB)

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Latvia, G4:

R2 (L16):

Derrick CHEN (GBR) 6-4 6-2 Daniils SNAIDERS (LAT)

Oscar WEIGHTMAN (GBR) [7] 6-0 6-3 Valerijs VOROBJOVS (LAT)



Macedonia, G5:

R2 (L32):

Dimitrije ZUBAC (SRB) 3-6 6-3 7-6(4) Peter ALAM (GBR) [3]

Andrija JEVTIC (SRB) 3-6 7-6(6) 6-3 Sam BOSSEM (GBR) [7]

Dian NEDEV (BUL) [2] 6-4 6-2 Charlie PENMAN (GBR)

 

Cyprus, G5:

R1: Nour DIB (LBN) [3]     6-2 7-6(3)     Anya KOTECHA (GBR)



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 22nd of August 2018 08:16:59 PM

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Hope Derrick is OK. Nice win for Oscar.

Latvia, G4:

QF:

Oscar WEIGHTMAN (GBR) [7] 6-2 7-6(4) Robin Erik PARTS (EST) [2]

Leyton RIVERA (NOR) [6] 6-7(3) 7-6(5) 3-0 Retired Derrick CHEN (GBR)



France, G4:

R2: Felix GILL (GBR) [4] 6-2 6-3 Bryan AGUIAR KUNTZ (BRA)

Felix also through to the semis in the doubles.



Peter and Sam are through to the semis in the doubles in Macedonia.

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Another very good win for Oscar sees him into the final, which is already his best G4 result. He's been having a good summer, some reasonable adult showings, as well as his double in Poland. Another young 2001-er:

Latvia, G4:

SF: Oscar WEIGHTMAN (GBR) [7] 2-6 6-2 6-0 Nikita KASHIRIN (RUS) [3]

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Shout out to Graziella Barrett who has made it to the doubles final in Macedonia, G5:

Semi-Final Girls Dubs: Graziella BARRETT (GBR) / Andrea ZECEVIC (CRO) [7]  def.  Jana OGNJANOVSKA (MKD) / Jana TANEVSKA (MKD) [8]    6-4 6-7(7) [10-7]

Semi-Final Boys Dubs: Vasil DIMITROV (BUL) / Simeon TERZIEV (BUL) [3]  def.  Peter ALAM (GBR) / Sam BOSSEM (GBR) [1]   6-2 6-4



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 24th of August 2018 04:04:57 PM

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Bad day yesterday for Felix:

France, G4:

QF: Francisco ANDREU GARCIA (ESP) [8] 6-0 6-1 Felix GILL (GBR) [4]

SF Dubs: Bryan AGUIAR KUNTZ (BRA) / Nicolas ZANELLATO (BRA) 6-4 3-6 [10-7] Felix GILL (GBR) / Stijn PEL (NED) [1]




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Latvia, G4:

FINAL: Oscar WEIGHTMAN (GBR) [7] 6-2 6-0 Karlis OZOLINS (LAT) [1]


That's going to be a big jump in the rankings for Oscar, and well deserved. Mega congrats to him. He's a nice player to watch.


Not to be in the dubs final for Graziella:

Macedonia, G5:

DUBS FINAL: Victoria BORODULINA (RUS) / Teodora VUJICIC (SRB) [4] 6-0 6-2 Graziella BARRETT (GBR) / Andrea ZECEVIC (CRO) [7]


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Well done to Oscar, hammering the local top seed 



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