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Coup Droit wrote:

Poor Mika - she's given her absolute all - won the first set - was a break up in the second - got to a tiebreak - was 5-2 up - and ended up losing the second set 7-6(5)

 The third set is also going to Depesova.  From what I know and see, Mika isn't consistent enough with the rallies, nor the backhand and emotionally rattled quite easily.  Depesova is rock solid, no reactions and consistent.  Good match.



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She was never going to win that third set - the disappointment and loss of momentum is very hard to fight against

Mika has a far more aggressive game than the other girl - she was well up for 99% of the two sets - there will always be more UEs (and more winners)

And she didn't really give the tiebreak away - there was one 'soft' error at an unfortunate time - but she didn't choke

Her tennis is rather one-dimensional - but then so was Maria Sharapova's and it didn't do her any harm

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Kudos to the seeding committee as the top 4 seeds made the semis (Czech Republic, USA, Slovakia and Germany). Hannah and Arabella won the doubles as a consolation. Tomorrow it will be Japan, whose number 1 is 22-4 in ITFs and beat Germany's Les Petits As champion.

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GBR 1 Slovakia 2

Arabella lost to Mia Pohankova 2-6 4-6
Mika lost to Sona Depesova 6-4 6-7(5) 2-6
Klugman/Loftus beat Depesova/Supova 0-4 4-1 [10-7]


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JonH comes home wrote:

The Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup (BJK Cup?) are mentioned elsewhere.

These World Tennis Finals are for u14 players, yes? Are the Junior Davis and Fed Cups the equivalent for U18? Or is it U16? And/or, is there a separate World Team event for U16/18's depending on which the Junior DC/FC events cover?

Sorry if I am slow but the ITF site doesnt seem to cover it in much detail!

 Under 16 - see this ITF page for coverage of team competitions. 



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Coup Droit wrote:

She was never going to win that third set - the disappointment and loss of momentum is very hard to fight against

Mika has a far more aggressive game than the other girl - she was well up for 99% of the two sets - there will always be more UEs (and more winners)

And she didn't really give the tiebreak away - there was one 'soft' error at an unfortunate time - but she didn't choke

Her tennis is rather one-dimensional - but then so was Maria Sharapova's and it didn't do her any harm

 Only my opinion Mika is a new player to me but seen some of her matches and I have to say I like her intentions. She may be less consistent than some but her aggressive game may carry her much further long term and transitioning Into womens. Its easy to be results focused in juniors and weve seen plenty win matches through playing very consistently, steady rally balls, high net clearance  or waiting for opponent errors, but I see very few womens matches played like this especially at higher levels.  I think much more exciting to see a young junior girl taking it on and being committed to her game style, which will in itself become more consistent in time, shes a 2008 born player - so good for her to play that way at this age. 



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Yes, I agree, Tennisdad - I saw people on other forums criticise her for the errors etc but, as you say, that's missing the point (IMO). Her game is an aggressive one and not a ridiculous one, as in 'I'll whack everything, even if only one ball in ten go in, but that's OK coz I'm being aggressive'. She has schemes of play that she's worked on and she sticks very much to those (which is why is looks a touch 'learnt' and not instinctive), and those schemes are quite basic - she has no real slice, or dropshot, or volley - BUT, as said, quite a lot of successful women base their game very much on aggressive top spin ground shots and she's got the game, and the physique to make that work for her. I certainly wouldn't care about the UEs in that game she just played - she laid out some very good tennis, she did what her trainer had obviously told her to do, and it very, very, nearly came off.

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Hannah and Mika returned to winning ways against Japan, so we play Korea for 5th tomorrow. The Czech Republic and Germany contest the title. Their number ones (Samsonova/Stusek) are the second and third highest ranked 2008s in the ITF rankings behind a Russian

5th-8th play-off

GBR 2 Japan 0

Mika beat Kurea Hayasaka 7-5 6-0
Hannah beat Wakana Sonobe 7-5 6-2


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Well done to both smilesmile



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We end up 6th after a 2-1 defeat to Korea - that is still our highest placing in either boys or girls World Juniors Finals since 2012, when the team of Maia Lumsden, Gabi Taylor and Jazzy Plews reached the final (most years since then we have not had either team qualify). The Czech Republic comfortably beat Germany for gold

5th-6th place play-off

GBR 1 Korea 2

Mika lost to Suh A Lee 1-6 5-7
Hannah beat Haeum Lee 6-1 6-0
Hannah/Arabella lost to Ju/Lee 4-6 3-6



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