Week 8 - ITF M25 - Sunderland, Great Britain (indoor hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 8 - ITF M25 - Sunderland, Great Britain (indoor hard)

the addict · Tennis legend

Anton got very close there in the final set tie-break - he was 5-4 on his own serve - and lost the next three points.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (JE) Valentin Royer (FRA) WR 755 (CH = 752 at the start of the month) vs (3) Jack Draper WR 321

Royer beat Heyman (7) by 2 & 5.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (3) Jesper de Jong & Bart Stevens (NED/NED) CR 718 (312+406) defeated (1) Dan Added (FRA) & Evan Hoyt CR 487 (226+261) by 3-6 6-3 [10-6] bleh

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Jack now has 9 wins over the 3 weeks of British events. if he had achieved his seeding in each event, he would have been looking at 12 wins, but that was always a stretch over 3 weeks. As it happens, he seems to have got better over the weeks and may end up with 11 wins and a title, so probably coming out as hoped for and certainly not behind.

Either way a dozen or more matches over 3 weeks is good practice and I see he is moving onto challenger events as the next stage

Good stuff.

Gets some good match play in and wins early in the year and pushes up his base ranking before moving onto challengers.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
SF: (JE) Valentin Royer (FRA) WR 755 (CH = 752 at the start of the month) vs (3) Jack Draper WR 321
Royer beat Heyman (7) by 2 & 5.

For fullness of info, just to re-mention that these two are both born 2001, and both had pretty much identical junior CHs.

Royer lost last week to Poulain who went on to take the title.

His ranking isn't a real one, he took 3-4 months out last year to do his Baccalauréat, which he passed with Mention Bien, which is pretty good. And was injured for a shortish while.

He was also Champion of Europe last year.

Looking forward to the match tomorrow....

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
SF: (JE) Valentin Royer (FRA) WR 755 (CH = 752 at the start of the month) vs (3) Jack Draper WR 321
Royer beat Heyman (7) by 2 & 5.
For fullness of info, just to re-mention that these two are both born 2001, and both had pretty much identical junior CHs.
Royer lost last week to Poulain who went on to take the title.
His ranking isn't a real one, he took 3-4 months out last year to do his Baccalauréat, which he passed with Mention Bien, which is pretty good. And was injured for a shortish while.
He was also Champion of Europe last year.
Looking forward to the match tomorrow....

How does one get to be champion of europe?! What event is that ?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
SF: (JE) Valentin Royer (FRA) WR 755 (CH = 752 at the start of the month) vs (3) Jack Draper WR 321
Royer beat Heyman (7) by 2 & 5.
For fullness of info, just to re-mention that these two are both born 2001, and both had pretty much identical junior CHs.
Royer lost last week to Poulain who went on to take the title.
His ranking isn't a real one, he took 3-4 months out last year to do his Baccalauréat, which he passed with Mention Bien, which is pretty good. And was injured for a shortish while.
He was also Champion of Europe last year.
Looking forward to the match tomorrow....
How does one get to be champion of europe?! What event is that ?

It's a Tennis Europe event.

It's the official individual European Championship, singles and doubles, and is played in several difficult age categories (Royer obviously won the U18 last year)

Tsistipas won it, as did Ymer, Hingis, Grosjean, Soderling, Khachanov, Cepelova, Juvan and a decent selection of others

https://www.tenniseurope.org/page/16374/European-Junior-Championships

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
SF: (3) Jesper de Jong & Bart Stevens (NED/NED) CR 718 (312+406) defeated (1) Dan Added (FRA) & Evan Hoyt CR 487 (226+261) by 3-6 6-3 [10-6]

And so endeth all Brit interest in the doubles:

SF: (2) Szymon Walkow & Jan Zielinski (POL/POL) CR 487 (176+311) defeated Charlie Emhardt (USA) & Tom Hands CR 1547 (612+935) by 1 & 1