Boys & Girls: J2 Plzen, Czech Republic, clay (Week 36)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: J2 Plzen, Czech Republic, clay (Week 36)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Success for the boys, with Will tackling Bjorn Borg's son next, but a loss for Millie

Boys R1 (L32)

(7) Jack Pinnington Jones d. Alexandr Koliev (CZE) 6-0 6-1
William Nolan d. (WC) Hynek Barton (CZE) 6-3 7-6(6)

R2

(Q) Stepan Baum (CZE) v (7) Jack Pinnington Jones
William Nolan v (4) Leo Borg (SWE)

Girls R1 (L32)

(WC) Tereza Valentova (CZE) d. (6) Amelia Bissett 4-6 6-1 6-3

tharris · Intermediate Club Player

Valentova is born 2007, so in her first year of ITF juniors, making her a contemporary of Mingge Xu and Hephzibah Oluwadare. Obviously a really talented prospect.

DavidC · Tennis legend

tharris wrote:
Valentova is born 2007, so in her first year of ITF juniors, making her a contemporary of Mingge Xu and Hephzibah Oluwadare. Obviously a really talented prospect.

Same year as Brenda Fruhvirtova, adding to the plethora of young talent in the Czech Republic (they also have the current TE1 & 2 and dominate the Tennis Europe U12/U14 cups).

Excellent straight sets wins today - two Belgians await

R2

(7) Jack Pinnington Jones d. (Q) Stepan Baum (CZE) 6-2 6-3
William Nolan d. (4) Leo Borg (SWE) 6-2 7-5

QF

(3) Pierre Yves Bailly (BEL) v (7) Jack Pinnington Jones
(6) Martin Katz (BEL) v William Nolan

DavidC · Tennis legend

GBR 1 Belgium 1 with an emphatic win for Jack and a narrow loss for Will. A chance to make it 2-1 tomorrow in the doubles

QF

(7) Jack Pinnington Jones d. (3) Pierre Yves Bailly (BEL) 6-0 6-3
(6) Martin Katz (BEL) d. William Nolan 1-6 6-3 7-6(5)

SF

(6) Max Hans Rehberg (GER) v (7) Jack Pinnington Jones

Doubles F

(1) Blanch/Pinnington Jones (USA/GBR) v (2) Bailly/De Boes (BEL)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Make that 2-1 and a singles final for Jack to boot, only his second at this level or better. Meanwhile Millie's conqueror has reached the girls final, ousting the TE top ranked girl (also Czech)

SF

(7) Jack Pinnington Jones d. (5) Max Hans Rehberg (GER) 7-5 7-5

F

(7) Jack Pinnington Jones v Matthew William Donald (CZE)

Doubles F

(1) Blanch/Pinnington Jones (USA/GBR) d. (2) Bailly/De Boes (BEL) 6-3 3-6 [10-5]

DavidC · Tennis legend

Jack claims his maiden Grade 2 singles title to go with the doubles

F

(7) Jack Pinnington Jones d. Matthew William Donald (CZE) 6-2 4-6 6-3

Picture of finalists (Jack on right as we look)

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Well done Jack.

I think that other lad in that photo is his doubles partner Blanch. I've spent the last 5 mins seeing if I could find any background info on the very non sounding Czech youngster, but couldn't find anything relevant, did see a picture of him though, and that's not him.

Edit - it is, Dali Blanch. Brother of current top 250 ATP player Ulises (who I had never heard of, and they look pretty similar), two of four children who play tennis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulises_Blanch

Just saw Ulises blew a 2 set lead over the 13th seed Garin at the USO R1.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 13th of September 2020 03:08:10 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

Well researched AV. I just saw the photo on Twitter, recognised Jack and assumed it must be the finalists as it was tweeted after today's singles final. Ulises was a top junior in his final year, reaching JWR2 including a Wimbledon semi (losing to Alex De Minaur).

I remember researching Matthew Donald a while ago because of his name, when he was prominent in Tennis Europe competition. I think his dad is a tennis coach who has now settled in the Czech Republic