Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Post Info TOPIC: Boys & Girls: U14 Junior International Bolton, indoor acrylic (week 3b)


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 18651
Date:
Boys & Girls: U14 Junior International Bolton, indoor acrylic (week 3b)


The traditional warm-up for Les Petits As is underway with a fair sprinkling of Brits through to the last 16. In the boys event Henry Searle (14), Jamie Diack and Viktor Frydrych (7)  are through while youngsters Ben Gusic Wan and Oliver Bonding both won one match. The girls last 16 features Jadesola Cole (12) who takes on Mingge Xu, Hannah Read (7), Vlada Kozak (13), Hephzibah Oluwadare (8) and Giulia Lesa (who put out the second seed today).  Live scores are available here



__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 18651
Date:

A good day with Henry crushing the top seed 2 & 1, joined by both Jamie and Viktor in the quarters. The USA always bring over a strong contingent, and they take up the other 5 quarter-final positions. In the girls event Mingge comfortably won the all-British clash, and is joined in the quarters by Hannah and Hephzibah. Hephzibah is currently at 25 in the TE14 rankings, the third highest 2007 behind a couple of Russian girls

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55273
Date:

Go, Hep !

And all the others too

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 18651
Date:

4 British semifinalists is the most I can remember here. Mingge was particularly ruthless double bagelling her opponent, so both 2007s go through.  Clips of many of the matches are on this Twitter feed

Boys SF

Nikita Samuel Filin (USA) v Jamie Diack
(7) Viktor Frydrych v (9) Alexander Razeghi (USA)

Girls SF

Mingge Xu v (4) Sarah Iliev (FRA)
(3) Anastasia Firman (UKR) v (7) Hephzibah Oluwadare



__________________


Challenger qualifying

Status: Offline
Posts: 2174
Date:

Loved the clips. Thanks for sharing.

Hephzibah looks a brilliant prospect

__________________

GO TEAM GBR IN 2024!



Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55273
Date:

Mervatron2 wrote:

Loved the clips. Thanks for sharing.

Hephzibah looks a brilliant prospect


 She's fab smile



__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 18651
Date:

And encouragingly we have our two 2007 girls into the final without dropping a set yet (most of the field here are 2006)

Boys SF

Nikita Samuel Filin (USA) d. Jamie Diack 7-6(2) 7-5
(9) Alexander Razeghi (USA) d. (7) Viktor Frydrych 6-1 6-4

Girls SF

Mingge Xu d. (4) Sarah Iliev (FRA) 6-4 6-3
(7) Hephzibah Oluwadare d. (3) Anastasia Firman (UKR) 6-2 6-4


__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55273
Date:

LTA Competitions
@LTACompetitions
· 19h

When 12-year-olds @mingge_mimi and @Hephzibahdare face off tomorrow, it will be the first time ever that two Brits have faced off for the #JuniorInternational Bolton title.

It guarantees a first British winner of the girls event since @maialumsden triumphed in 2012.

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55273
Date:

And Mingge XU (who goes by Mimi, I believe) gets bragging rights

Congrats to her, on a 6-2 6-2 win!!!!

And to Heph too.



__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 17383
Date:

Yes - it's Mimi and she is based in South Wales.
I said she was good when I saw her win the TE event at the Wirral

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55273
Date:

Yes. She's into piano and lots of other things too - an accomplished young lady.

She's very tall though and this gives her a considerable advantage at her age. Of course, she may well carry on growing, which is also a big advantage for tennis in adults too (although there are potentially certain downsides if too tall).
But we've had very tall youngsters before, who've stood out as kids, and then not progressed as they stopped growing and others caught up.

I think Mingge is great, and it's wonderful that we've got her and Heph (and others) to give some momentum. But her tennis is little laboured, her natural timing doesn't seem as good as some.

Which is not taking anything away from a brilliant week for her, and great progress over the past year too. (And players like Lindsay Davenport were tall and always a little laboured too, and didn't do too badly smile)



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 24th of January 2020 04:33:59 PM

__________________


Improver

Status: Offline
Posts: 6
Date:

Coup Droit wrote:


She's very tall though and this gives her a considerable advantage at her age.


yes she has to be congratulated for the result, but the bit of junior tennis I have seen over the last few years  has shown to me that kids develop early and have a height advantage find it so much easier to compete with kids that are older (thou may not be a tall)

I have been told that this also causes a disadvantage (by a coach, who has "seen it all") as once the other kids grow to a similar height, they generally beat these early developers, due to the kids which were tall first develop there serve game, where the smaller kids develop there return game to try to compete. hence when the same height the first lot are missing the return part of there game. (weather this is the case, im not so sure?)

 



__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55273
Date:

Hi Barry10 !

Yes, I tend to feel the same way, based on what I've seen and been involved with.

As said, if the kid keeps on growing and ends up tall, then that's a different picture.

But, I agree, those who are tall as youngsters because they've shot up early, and then everyone else catches up, often find it very difficult later on.

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 18651
Date:

Interview with Mingge

Photo of both finalists with trophies    (confirming the height difference)

A few clips from the match on the Twitter feed linked to earlier

 



__________________
Page 1 of 1  sorted by
 
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.

Tweet this page Post to Digg Post to Del.icio.us


Create your own FREE Forum
Report Abuse
Powered by ActiveBoard