Other events - week 8

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Other events - week 8

seagull · Hall of fame

Lui MAXTED (GBR) [15] 4-6 6-4 6-3 Saba PURTSELADZE (GEO) [2]

The good run continues

seagull · Hall of fame

Closing in on top 400 and beating players 2 years older than him regularly

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Good victory for Lui over the 2nd seed.

Turkey, G5:

R3:

Lui MAXTED (GBR) [15] 4-6 6-4 6-3 Saba PURTSELADZE (GEO) [2]

Finland, G4:

R2 Girls:

Jasmine CONWAY (GBR) [6] 6-3 6-4 Aurelia RIGA (EST)

Alicia DUDENEY (GBR) [3] 6-4 6-7(5) 6-1 Maria PETROVIC (SWE)

R2 Boys:

Matthew William DONALD (CZE) 7-6(4) 6-4 Peter ALAM (GBR) [6]

DavidC · Tennis legend

The premier under 12 tournament in Auray, France is also on this week. Our six members of the bronze medal winning TE Winter Cup teams are all taking part. Three of them have reached the quarters - Samy Khediri, Benjamin Gusic Wan and Hephzibah Oluwadare A lot of matches are streamed live and available afterwards on their YouTube channel Hephzibah and Samy are second and third on court 1 tomorrow

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thanks for highlighting that, David. Had forgotten that was on this week.

Went and looked at 5 mins of Benjamin Gusic Wan's previous matches. And Oliver Bonding, as he's on there too.
Ben's a little lad but hits through the ball and uses the angles well, especially on his backhand.
Will try and see some of little fave Hep today and catch Samy whom I've never seen before.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, it's GB 2, Roumania 0 this morning in Auray for the U12s.

Both lads won their matches pretty easily. The ungracious would say that Ben Gusic Wan moonballed his opponent to death but actually he was a bit cleverer than that, continued to use his angles well, get lots of whip on his backhand from time to time. And there's a lot of moonballing in junior tennis, his opponent was doing it too, and the lad is not big, it's a reasonable part of the game.
Samy also played a pretty conservative, try-to-make-no faults, first set, which worked well, and then - feeling more confident - really changed and became more aggressive, which you can tell he likes, and suits him, but he's probably been told to rein it in a bit.

Good show from both of them.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And a joy to watch young Hephzibah against a very determined young Russian miss who started poorly and then really got herself going

I don't know how Hep will be at age 18 but she is remarkably strong girl for her age, and doesn't half power that ball. Real intent, it's great to see. Very promising. A real little fave.

(Mind you, even she doesn't absolutely cream the ball like Shanice Roignot (FRA) does, who won very easily on the other court, and has a very impressive game but problems with growth at the moment).

seagull · Hall of fame

Quarter Final

Lui MAXTED (GBR) [15] 6-0 6-4 Daniel MOROZOV (LAT)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lui still going strong in the Turkey, G4 event, as above.

Also:

Finland, G4:

QFs:

Jasmine CONWAY (GBR) [6] 6-4 2-6 6-1 Nahia BERECOECHEA (FRA)

Alicia DUDENEY (GBR) [3] 2-6 6-2 6-3 Polina IATCENKO (RUS)

In the dubs, the two girls won their QF match today but Jack P-Jones and partner lost theirs.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Hephzibah has just started her semi on the Auray live stream followed by the two boys. Mingge Xu is in the consolation final, which is currently being streamed (3-3 at present)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Mingge has just won the consolation final - if you're going to lose early on, lose in R1 and then go and win the consolation draw - it's a good strategy

She deserved the win - a bit more penetration on her shots, a technically better serve, less UEs - but the other girl made it hard for her in the second set.

Well done.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Hephzibah ended up losing her semi, 6-3 4-6 6-3

It was a pretty close match, against a Japanese girl (also quite tall and strong) who was just a little bit more dynamic than Hep, who is a good athlete and covers the court well but doesn't do her microfootwork as she should, relying on upper body strength to compensate, and so makes faults, and also has slight strategy problems, making wrong choices at times (which is not surprising in a 12 year-old

). The Japanese girl played very well though, went for her shots.
Overall, a good match. She shouldn't be too disappointed with her run this week.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lui is into the final in Turkey and will take on the French top seed.

Turkey, G5:

SF: Lui MAXTED (GBR) [15] 6-4 6-3 Constantinos KOSHIS (CYP) [12]

One out of two for the girls in Finland, with an expeditive win by Alicia.

Finland G4:

SFs:

Klara MILICEVIC (SWE) [1] 6-2 6-2 Jasmine CONWAY (GBR) [6]

Alicia DUDENEY (GBR) [3] 6-1 6-1 Laura HIETARANTA (FIN) [2]

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

At the U12 in Auray, Khederi lost pretty fairly to a little scrap from France called Yosh Sborowsky, with a single-handed backhand (very rare at that age).
It was 6-4 7-5, and Khediri played OK, but the match was pretty much on the French kid's racket.