Hannah's not 13 until next Friday and she's a WC in the British Tour next week anyway.

Coup Droit wrote:

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Interesting that there are two Norwegian girls with wildcards into the qualis

Presumably as some sort of arrangement with the Norwegian federation?

Strong top group in the boys for the main draw for a J5.

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 Anders Borg is the tournament organiser.

Will be interesting to see how the real youngsters with wildcards do.

In the girls, there's Sophia Kovacheva (age 13), whom I've never seen

And Leticia Romanova (age 13) whom I've seen livestream at the Open Auray (against the young Russian 'wunderkind' Ksenia, who's no wunderkind, IMO). Leticia got knocked out of last month's Les Petits As in FQR, I think.

And Georgiana Mititelu (age 13) who lost very comprehensively in R1 Les Petits As

Also, Heidi Crnan (age 14), a new name to me

Got there around 5.45pm and stayed until 8pm. There were still matches to start and the centre was closing at 10pm.
Most of the girls had finished, but caught the end of Aimee Knowles match against a Romanian girl who was very good defensively and won the MTB.
Lots of Scots down and I watched Cameron Fryer cruise through, although he switched off for 10 mins in set 2. He looks a very good player, but struggles to get into ITFs without a ranking. I believe it is his second ITF tournament.
Standard was very high for qualifying. There was a very good match involving next to Cameron Fryer involving Hugo Coquelin, who was a set down.

The only unusual match I saw involved a GB 17yr old called Simic.
She served first, hit a 100mph+ Ace first up and I thought what have we got here...
However, when she missed her first serve, she just lobbed a 50mph second serve in and her ground shots lacked any real quality.
I suspect she is a late entrant to tennis from another sport.

paulisi wrote:

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We have some very good 2008 girls here.
They are too good for qualifying...

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 Yes, I agree. They're a good batch.

But it's difficult for the LTA to know what to do with them.

They all got trounced playing the best players of their own age in Europe last month. 

So they need some practice and wins. And they can't all have MD wildcards because there aren't enough to go round. 

In the girls:

the youngest cohort mentioned at the start continued their good show:

Georgiana Mititelu is into the FQR
as is Sophia Kovacheva
Both age 13, born 2008

As is Eloise Newberry, who also came through

And the 14 year-old WC, Heidi Crncan

And two of our other 2007-born 14 year-olds, Dina Lipovski and Isabella Wong

ADD: FQR results to come 

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 13th of February 2022 09:01:29 PM