Well done Will

Coup Droit wrote:

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Born in 2008, Capucine Jauffret has won two matches and is into the third round of this J1, which is pretty amazing (it's her first eveer proper ITF juniors event)

Capucine beat our Mika S in the recent World Championships

(If you were being a little churlish though, you might point out that she won her first round here by retirement, and then beat a qualifier in R2)

Also, she comes from one of the MOST illustrious tennis family in France.

Her father's dad, Francois Jauffret, played professional tennis for France, made the semis at Roland Garros, and the quarters, played a very famous 4 hour long match against Bjorg.....

He also holds the record for the most ties played for the French Davis Cup Tennis team with 35, between 1964 and 1978. His career-high ATP Tour singles ranking was World No. 20.

Francois' two brothers were also French National Champions, as teenagers, and played Roland Garros. Loic Courteau, the top trainer, is a nephew (or whatever)

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 Just read this, v interesting. Francois Jauffret is a name I recall well. I have a feeling he played for a little while with the subsequently banned spaghetti racket, used by Fishbach and I think Nastase for a while - I could be wrong on that to be honest. 

The spaghetti racquet had double layered strings and a strange pattern but in essence meant , once you could play with it, that you got amazing spin on the ball. It threw up some massive upsets and the powers that be banned it!

This article tells the story of it!!

https://engineeringsport.co.uk/2010/01/19/revenge-of-the-spaghetti-strings/