Boys & Girls: 2020 Tennis Europe major tournaments U14/U12 (Week 8)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: 2020 Tennis Europe major tournaments U14/U12 (Week 8)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The live scores from Auray seem to be down but the three livestream courts are up, with a superly competitive match between Oliver Page and a little Tunisian lad, currently 5-5

DavidC · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
The live scores from Auray seem to be down but the three livestream courts are up, with a superly competitive match between Oliver Page and a little Tunisian lad, currently 5-5

Sorry about the dud link - I have corrected it. Oliver won, as did Thomas. The girls start tomorrow.

In Sweden Mimi (Mingge) was the only one of the Winter Cup squad to play, and she won comfortably, joined by Vlada Kozak, Henry Searle and Viktor Frydrych

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

It wasn't your dud link, David!

I went on the site too and their link was dud too - not your fault!
But the livestreams were certainly nice - watched a set, on and off, of Oliver. Will try and go and look at the archive footage of Thomas some time this week too.

DavidC · Tennis legend

In France we had a clean sweep today, including bakery product victories for Hannah and Amalia

In Sweden Hannah won comfortably but Hephzibah needed a scenic route. Dilhan Wasantha added to British round 1 success. In round 2 tomorrow Mimi may be on the streamed court against the Russian third seed, who was part of their silver medal winning squad. Their match follows that of the Les Petits As winner Brenda Fruhvirtova

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I watched a bit of Amalia today (Hannah's match wasn't streamed).

Wasn't overly impressed but, then, to be fair, she was playing a girl who was really struggling at this level so maybe difficult to tell......

However, I saw quite a bit of Viviana Muci's match (a completely new name on me - in fact, the wonderful eclectic mix of names of our players fills me with joy).

Tall girl, hits quite a heavy ball, decent-ish serve technique. She was clearly the better player but it was not an easy match, against a rather in-your-face opponent - she did well.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Viviana survived a 3 setter today, but Amalia was well beaten. The other two members of the gold medal winning team, Hannah and Sophie, reached round 3, as did Thomas

In Sweden Hannah, Vlada, Viktor and Henry progressed to round 3, but Mimi and more surprisingly Hephzibah, lost. Vlada came through a marathon of 3 extended sets and now has a daunting task against Brenda Fruhvirtova, who has lost just 2 games so far.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Saw a little bit of Thomas at Auray - a careful little player who deserved to win.

Amalia got rather het up in her match, against a very bouncy girl with lots of hair whose tennis was basically better. The score was fair.

Also saw a bit of Viktor, who is an interesting lad, although causes his coaches a bit of grief, I understand, but has a nice aggressive style.

Also saw Mimi - rather ungainly, as normal, and well beaten, but she is a year younger and will improve as she grows into herself, so to speak.

And a few ball of Henry's match but there wasn't too much to hold the interest....

DavidC · Tennis legend

Not surprisingly Vlada suffered similarly at the hands of Brenda, but Hannah and Viktor made smooth progress to the quarter-finals

Meanwhile in Auray we have two quarter-finalists, Viviana and Hannah, who meet on a streamed court second match tomorrow

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Saw about 5 mins of Sophie Bekker today who's a very slight, little girl, playing a French girl of probably twice her body weight.
She put up a decent effort but didn't really have anything to trouble her opponent with....

Well done to Viviana - glad that my call is doing well ! However, Hannah Klugman is a prodigious talent for her age and must be the favourite tomorrow.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The livestream was playing up on the all-GB court so was really disappointed not to be able to see our prodigiously talented Hannah Klugman.

But she won very easily and, with everything that's been said about her, I feel I'll get another chance quite soon

Tennisdad_101 · Lower Club Player

Just watching Hannah klugman On livestream doubles. What an exciting young player !

DavidC · Tennis legend

In Sweden Hannah R (comfortably) and Viktor (in a tight competitive match) have reached the semis. This week Hannah entered the Tennis Europe top 10 for the first time, and she should improve her ranking further, with the extra points from a Super Category event. Tomorrow she plays Mimi's conqueror Daria Shadchneva, with the other semi being between the top seed Brit Martin (Estonia) and defending champion Brenda Fruhvirtova. Neither Hannah's match nor Viktor's (against Spanish second seed Martin Landaluce) are on the court likely to be streamed. However the third match on the streamed court is the doubles final involving Hephzibah and Hannah - who play the two other members of the Russian TE Winter Cup silver-winning squad (both 2007 born). The three other boys left in are the TE1, 2 and 3 so Viktor is in exalted company

In Auray Hannah K is first up tomorrow - hopefully streamed. If not, one of Hannah's earlier matches is available on YouTube

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thanks for the link, David - I had been meaning to go and search one out but hadn't got round to it....

What a super serve for someone so young - when you watch the U12 events, their serves are so all over the place (understandably) that it's amazing to see such a technically correct and effective one. And lots of other extremely good points to her game too...... a great talent....

NB Saw 15 mins of Hannah Read today - playing very nicely, well above the other girl, all in hand.

Strongbow · All-time great

"n Auray Hannah K is first up tomorrow - hopefully streamed. If not, one of Hannah's earlier matches is available on YouTube"

Interesting, I skipped through it because there was soo much background noise. will try and watch it properly tomorrow. smile