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Liverpool Junior International G5 - Week 7


Qualifying starts tomorrow, but not until lunchtime, so may try and nip in later on or on sunday.

Top seeds are Henry Searle and Abby Kelliher

There is a second G5 the following week. Hannah Klugman may be old enough to compete in ITF juniors now, but she doesn't appear on either entry list.



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

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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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Coup Droit wrote:

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.


 Anders Borg is the tournament organiser.



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paulisi wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:

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.


 Anders Borg is the tournament organiser.


 Thanks, paulisi



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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

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Real chuffed for young Leticia who beat the top Q seed in a MTB

THe other 13 year-old I was watching Sophia K also won, easily.

The two will play each other for a MD place, which is a bit of a shame.

Georgiana (also 13) won too. As did Heidi. So good wildcards.





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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.

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Just to say , it wasnt Hugo Coquelin that was playing but the rather confusingly named Hugo Cochlin . Seriously - hard to believe. Cochlin is ranked 1887 or so in juniors, Coquelin is 226 and , Id imagine hed be above this level of play. Cochlin lost 3 and 3 .

www.itftennis.com/en/players/hugo-cochlin-/800486398/gbr/jt/s/overview/

www.itftennis.com/en/players/hugo-coquelin/800513182/gbr/jt/s/overview/

The higher rated Hugo Coquelin seems to be in a J2 in Germany

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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.

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

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


 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. 



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6 and a half hours watching and the boys final qualifiers hadn't even started.
The level of tennis for a G5 qualifying is exceptionally high. GB has a huge base of very good players.

Sofia K qualied in an epic MTB against a very good player in Isabelle Wong.
The Romanian girl was first through - she is very solid and will beat young miss Black

Very good win for Cameron Fryer who came back from 5-2 down in the second set to win a tie break and MTB against another very good player.

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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

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Girls main draw:

Slightly irritating that two wildcards have gone to Norwegian girls - I understand that the organiser is Norwegian but when I look back at the recent Norwegian event I don't see the same number of GB wildcards into the MD - in fact there were four GB girls but all had direct entry and the organisers didn't give ANY extra wildcards !

However, youngster Mika Stojsavljevic (think she's 13) has a wildcard, as does 13 year-old Isabelle Briton



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