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Coup Droit


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Again, from the official report of the day:

"The girls' draw has lost its second seed. Mika Stojsavljevic joins the band of British girls causing upsets this week with a 6-0 6-7 6-0 win over Eliska Forejtkova."

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13:45 - BRITISH GIRLS MARCH ON

There's been a trio of impressive wins by British girls this morning: Hannah Klugman continued her progress at the 14&U event in Most, ousting tenth seed Angelica Sara (ITA) 7-5 6-1. At the 16&U event in Prerov, Mingge Xu upset second seed Rose Marie Nijkamp 7-6(3) 6-3. And in Klosters Ella McDonald (pictured) has yet to lose a set, today beating Dimitra Pavlou (GRE) 6-1 6-2. 



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Like Hannah, Alena Kovackova a fair bit taller and more 'grown-up' since January and Les Petits As (where she lost - JUST - to the eventual winner, Stusek, who beat Hannah)

Very solid player - quite smart too - Hannah's going to have to work hard to beat her

Hannah made a few loose errors at the start but seems to have settled now

Hannah: 2-3*



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Hannah broke back, but got broken again, and lost the first set 4-6, which was a fair score.

Hannah was just a little impatient at times, a few sloppy errors on return of serve, and Alena has good reflexes, and is efficient at picking up the ball and re-directing it

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Hannah lost 4-6 3-6

Which was a fair score

She has pretty decent technique for clay, doesn't look lost like a couple of our players did.

But it rather neutralises a lot of her advantage, and so makes it all a lot more difficult, to re-set within a point and start from scratch - she's not used to it...

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Mika has won the first set, playing well, although against an opponent who is miles below the Czech girl in Hannah's match

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First time I've seen Alena play - impressive.  Rare Hannah is beaten but I can see why.

Mika's forehand is very strong although her backhand is less controlled and erratic.



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And now Mika loses the second set 0-6 as the Slovakian girl plays a little better and Mika goes a little under.....

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Mika breaks in the third set 3-1. The scores seem to be working today. Hope that Mika continues this third set like she has started it.smile



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Spoke too soon. Was broken straight away next game.

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TW18 wrote:

First time I've seen Alena play - impressive.  Rare Hannah is beaten but I can see why.

Mika's forehand is very strong although her backhand is less controlled and erratic.

 That's funny - I like her backhand more than the forehand smile, especially the whippy crosscourt one

Although both break down when she's not properly positioned and balanced - she lurches or hops, depending whether she's too close or too far from the ball

But she has the makings of strong ground shots, and a strong serve - and I guess she's born in the latter half of 2008, as the ITF site says she's still 13 - so she's one of the younger ones (don't know if there are other 2009-ers apart from Hannah - I assume there must be a couple) 



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Poor Mika lost 5-7 in the third set

Real shame - it was very close and the 9th seed girl was very 'winnable'

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Hannah and Mika's conquerors both advanced to the final in 3 setters

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I don't completely follow all this but I see that Hannah, Mika and Arabella Loftus have been selected as our team for the World Tennis Finals U14 in August ....

Slightly surprised that Isabelle Britton didn't get the call up over Arabella ??? She certainly did better in Junior Junior Wimbly...

www.itftennis.com/en/news-and-media/articles/preview-and-team-announcements-2022-itf-world-junior-tennis-finals/

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Coup Droit wrote:

I don't completely follow all this but I see that Hannah, Mika and Arabella Loftus have been selected as our team for the World Tennis Finals U14 in August ....

Slightly surprised that Isabelle Britton didn't get the call up over Arabella ??? She certainly did better in Junior Junior Wimbly...

www.itftennis.com/en/news-and-media/articles/preview-and-team-announcements-2022-itf-world-junior-tennis-finals/

 Yeah there was a little chat about this on the first page of this thread. Not sure Ive heard of Arabella tbh before this event 



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Coup Droit wrote:

I don't completely follow all this but I see that Hannah, Mika and Arabella Loftus have been selected as our team for the World Tennis Finals U14 in August ....

Slightly surprised that Isabelle Britton didn't get the call up over Arabella ??? She certainly did better in Junior Junior Wimbly...

www.itftennis.com/en/news-and-media/articles/preview-and-team-announcements-2022-itf-world-junior-tennis-finals/

 Yeah there was a little chat about this on the first page of this thread. Not sure Ive heard of Arabella tbh before this event 

 She was in the U14 Junior Wimbledon, as was Isabelle - I see quite a few people are surprised that Arabella got the call up over Isabelle - but, hey, there are lots of factors in play ..... 

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-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 23rd of July 2022 09:33:34 PM

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