Boys & Girls: 2018 US Open, hard - Grade A (Week 36)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: 2018 US Open, hard - Grade A (Week 36)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:

Girls R3

Emma Raducanu d. (14) Qinwen Zheng (CHN) 7-6(6) 6-1

QF

(11) Clara Burel (FRA) v Emma Raducanu

I've never been blown away by Burel's tennis so am hopeful Emma will come through.

Also, Clara's been having a slightly tricky time - she did great at the start of the year (made the Aussie Open juniors final) but more recently she's changed coaches, did pretty poorly at RG and not been getting the sort of results she wanted.

She tells a good story though of her Bac which was this summer. It was a bit of a struggle, juggling tennis and studies and she failed her Bac by a small margin which means you're in the group that gets called in for an oral examination, whereby you can then be upgraded to getting the bare pass.

But the day of the oral exams (the rattrapage) Clara was in London for Wimbly juniors (and you can't defer it). But suddenly she noticed that there had been an error and her sport mark hadn't been included in the Bac total - every student has to do sport as part of their bac. Now, the sport mark is only a really small coefficient but because she'd got 19/20 (not surprisingly!), it was just enough to just push her over the total pass mark. (Always check the computer!)

She then made the last 16 at Junior Wimbly before losing very easily to the same girl who thrashed Emma.

Like Emma, she's not played competitive tennis over summer, taking holiday and rest, and then going on an intensive course hosted by the FFT for the girls playing the US Open juniors.

She's a year older than Emma and her adult tennis results have been nowhere as impressive either.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Emma is the headline story, including interview comments on the ITF site - www.itftennis.com/news/290852.aspx
Aidan also resumes at 5pm
Look out for other boys results, as Jack Draper is currently in the last qualifying spot for the Masters, but will be knocked out into an alternate slot by a win for either Musetti or Nakashima in the quarter finals

indiana · Tennis legend

Thanks for the Emma link, David.

It still seems strange that Jack ( and George ) didn't enter here.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Painfully empty Court 17 and painful score so far - 0-5

Jan · Hall of fame

2-6 *0-4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I couldn't watch any of that - was Clara a lot better than I'd expected or was Emma just not at the races at all ???

Julia Carrot · All-time great

The latter mainly.

Jan · Hall of fame

cry cry

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Julia Carrot wrote:
The latter mainly.

Thanks (well, I guess cry , but not your fault smile )

DavidC · Tennis legend

That just leaves Anton who should be on for his doubles QF shortly as the match before is close to its end

Boys R3

(6) Thiago Seyboth Wild (BRA) d. Aidan McHugh 6-4 6-1

Girls QF

(11) Clara Burel (FRA) d. Emma Raducanu 6-2 6-0

DavidC · Tennis legend

Anton and Adrian race through the first set 6-0

DavidC · Tennis legend

...and become the first pair through to the semis, dispatching the only remaining seeds

QF

Andreev/Matusevich (BUL/GBR) d. (8) Jianu/Wassermann (ROU/NED) 6-0 6-4

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Julia Carrot wrote:
The latter mainly.

Is it just our players that suffer from wild inconsistency, or the difference between a highly and not so highly ranked player?

flamingowings · All-time great

Helen40 wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
The latter mainly.
Is it just our players that suffer from wild inconsistency, or the difference between a highly and not so highly ranked player?

No. On the main tour, to give some examples are Garbine Muguruza and former no.1 Ana Ivanovic for two on how to be inconsistent.