Boys - 2019 European Summer Cups (U18/U16/U14/U12)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys - 2019 European Summer Cups (U18/U16/U14/U12)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Comfortable victories for Henry and Luca saw the U14 boys through to a 2-1 win over Turkey, and hence qualification for the European finals this weekend. They play Spain tomorrow for seeding rights.

DavidC · Tennis legend

The under 14s beat the host nation 2-1 to claim seeding rights at the weekend. Viktor Frydrych was drafted in for the second singles, losing in 2 tight sets, before Luca took over, winning singles and doubles with Henry. The finals starting Friday are also in Spain (Murcia)

DavidC · Tennis legend

The European under 14 finals start tomorrow, and we are drawn against Bulgaria in the quarter-finals. Victory would mean qualification for the World Juniors as well as the semis of the European Summer Cup

DavidC · Tennis legend

Despite a comfortable singles win for Luca (2 & 2) the boys lost 2-1 to Bulgaria (Luca & Henry lost 3 &4 in the deciding doubles), so must beat Germany tomorrow to qualify as one of the 6 European nations in the World Juniors

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:
The under 14s beat the host nation 2-1 to claim seeding rights at the weekend. Viktor Frydrych was drafted in for the second singles, losing in 2 tight sets, before Luca took over, winning singles and doubles with Henry. The finals starting Friday are also in Spain (Murcia)

Murcia is a great club and will be a wonderful places to hold the finals.

DavidC · Tennis legend

The experience of Murcia probably won't feel so great for the British team, as they lost 2-1 to Germany today. Again Luca was outstanding in singles with a 0 & 2 win, but the support wasn't strong enough and Germany won the other two matches comfortably. Hence we don't qualify for the World Juniors

DavidC · Tennis legend

We avoided the wooden spoon in Murcia, with the Spanish number one retiring against Luca, and the Spanish unable to field a team for the doubles. The Czech Republic beat France for the title.

JonH · All-time great

So, tell me about these events DavidC! I recall back in the day a series of summer junior team events called things like the Valeria Cup, Galea Cup, Annie Soisbault Cup, Sunshine Cup etc - are these the events that formed into the European Summer Cups? they use to play in places like Le touquet in france, are these the same events ?

-- Edited by JonH on Sunday 7th of July 2019 10:43:43 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
So, tell me about these events DavidC! I recall back in the day a series of summer junior team events called things like the Valeria Cup, Galea Cup, Annie Soisbault Cup, Sunshine Cup etc - are these the events that formed into the European Summer Cups? they use to play in places like Le touquet in france, are these the same events ?

-- Edited by JonH on Sunday 7th of July 2019 10:43:43 PM

Yes they each have exotic names, and the finals of the U16 boys are still in Le Touquet - go to http://www.tenniseurope.org/page/16418/European-Summer-Cups and scroll down to the bottom to find links to the history of each of the 6 established events (the under 12s are a recent addition). GB involvement in finals are rare, but we won the under 14 girls in 2012 (Maia/Gabi/Jazzi Plews) and the under 16 boys in 2011 (Kyle/Luke/Evan)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I'm not on very sure footing in all this but it seems that GB has been acing the U12 Summer Cup , the Lampo Trophy, in Italy.

Based on the Italian sites, translated into English, we qualified first in the group stages for both girls and boys.

And then the semi-finals were:

GIRLS:

GB b. Slovenia 3-0

Xu (Gbr) b. Cikajlo (Slo) 6-3 6-3, Oluwadare (Gbr) b. Kovacic (Slo) 6-1 6-0, Oluwadare / Xu (Gbr) b. Cikajlo / Kovacic (Slo) 6-1 6-1.

BOYS

Great Britain b. France 2-0 (to be concluded)

Bonding (Gbr) b. Sborowsky (Fra) 7-5 6-7 6-4, Gusic-Wan (Gbr) b. Bennani Ziatini (Fra) 7-5 6-2. To conclude: Gusic-Wan / Khediri (Gbr) vs Sborowsky / Vrel-Nagel (Fra).

In the finals, the girls play Bulgaria and the boys play Italy (that'll be nice and noisy

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DavidC · Tennis legend

Good results for the under 12s. The Lampo Trophy though is a team event before the European team championship involving a small number of nations (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Mexico (!), Romania, Slovenia, Hungary and GB) The equivalent under 12 event to the European Summer Cups open to all European nations is called the Tennis Europe Nations Challenge. Qualifying is in 2 weeks time with the finals in France.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thanks, David. I was pretty sure I was slightly on the wrong track or you'd have put it up here already

But if it's a good warm-up event for the U12 Summer Cup, then well done to all and keep going !

DavidC · Tennis legend

The under 12s started qualifying with a 2-1 defeat by France. The long-running rivalry between Ben Gusic Wan and Yoshka Sborowsky went the way of the French lad 2 & 3 following defeat for Samy Khediri. Unlike with the other age groups it isn't a knockout blow. They still have the opportunity to win their other two round robin matches to reach the decisive play-offs, but will probably then need to beat the winners of the other group

DavidC · Tennis legend

The under 12s beat Denmark 3-0 (Oliver Bonding and Ben winning in straights before combining for the doubles). With France beating Bulgaria tomorrow's match against Bulgaria will decide which of the two nations advances to the 2 vs 1 play-off