Girls & Boys: J3 Jo'burg, South Africa - hard (Week 42)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Girls & Boys: J3 Jo'burg, South Africa - hard (Week 42)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Marelie continued her good form - she's has a big jump in rankings since taking GB tennis nationality. Would be interested to see her play.....

R2 wins for both her and Oliver.

Serena lost though

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

All going great guns here

Oliver Bonding (age 15) won his QF 6-1 6-2

He now has to play the top seed, though, in his semi

Marelie (age 16) won hers just as easily, 6-1 6-1, trouncing a slightly higher ranked player

Marelie+ is into the dubs semis, as is Flora Johnson and partner

Oli B's dubs QF yet to play

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 19th of October 2022 02:53:16 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Congrats to Marelie who, as above, is definitely one of those on my radar

She's won her semi, again in two sets, and will now be in a J3 final for the first time

Big extra points, even if she loses.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And congrats to Oliver Bonding too - who (in three sets) has also made the final

Oliver Bonding (2007) hasn't had quite so much coverage as Ben Gusic Wan (2007) but, IMO, he's a slightly better prospect

Good luck to both our singles finalists here

The doubles is even better

In the girls' final, Marelie+ play Flora+

And in the boys, Oli has also made the final, with his Israeli playing partner

Nix · Futures level

Good news and good luck to both finalists.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Singles:

Mega congrats to Oliver Bonding (2007) who takes the title here - a wonderful week for a boy of his age

Oliver Bonding won, 6-2 4-6 6-3

Marelie was runner-up, losing 3-6 4-6 to the second seed.

Doubles:

But Marelie got some silverware, taking the dubs titles, with her USA partner, beating Flora Johnson+

AND:

Oliver did the double !!!!

He got the doubles title, too - 7-6(1) 6-3, with his Israeli playing partner