Girls: 2023 U16/U18 Junior National Championships, NTC, acrylic (Weeks 14/15)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Girls: 2023 U16/U18 Junior National Championships, NTC, acrylic (Weeks 14/15)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Faintly curious that there not a single wildcard has been given into the qualis in the boys, and yet in the girls we have:

Arabella Loftus
Edie Griffiths
Sophie Bekker
Georgiana Mititeleu

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Early days for anything of real interest yet

But I note that 2009-er Hollie Smart has beaten Brooke Black (2007) very easily, 2 & 2

(Just for clarity, the U16 event is for 2007 and 2008 born girls, in principle)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Fascinating field. Should be interesting at both age groups.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The under 16 main draws are up now

Girls competitions.lta.org.uk/sport/tournament/draw

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 2nd of April 2023 08:21:18 AM

DavidC · Tennis legend

The four qualifiers were Isabella Walker (edging out Hollie Smart 10-8 in the MTB), Aimee Knowles, Lois Newberry and Flora Johnson (edging out Molly Robinson 10-8 in the MTB). That means the 3 top seeds plus the highest ranked ITF progress. The main draw has been updated with qualifiers. Hep v Ruby Cooling pits two of the three players here ranked inside 200 ITF against each other in round 1

Lambda · Challenger level

Interviews with qualifiers Kouros and Aimee

https://twitter.com/i/status/1642621130883080196

Mr Gib · Improver

Does anyone know the rationale for a 16 main draw for the Nationals? Thanks

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Mr Gib wrote:
Does anyone know the rationale for a 16 main draw for the Nationals? Thanks

Hi Mr Gib - I dont know the rationale but my guess would be quality variation - there were something like 32 players in the qualies so overall field is 44 (12 direct entries into the main draw). I suspect the top 4 or 8 in the main draw would stamp all over the lower ranked ones in qualies so they had a larger qualies field to get it to a few to qualify. Which should make the main events more competitive.

But that is just my guess!!

Lambda · Challenger level

On my YouTube tv app you can't tell which court each stream is of as the title is so long it cuts it the court info off. Not very helpful LTA.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

www.lta.org.uk/news/2023-16u-junior-national-championships-preview-draws-scores-live-stream/

on the actual page's livestream, it's reasonably clear - you scroll through the different courts available, and the numbers of the courts is clear - it doesn't give you the names of the players, or the score, but you can have the livescores up too, and cross check from time to time

LordBrownof · Futures level

Calling their own lines in a national championships??

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Flora Johnson upset 3rd seeded Allegra 6-2 7-6.

No idea if that is a real upset , but well done nonetheless

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And Hep beat Ruby Cooling in straight sets

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

LordBrownof wrote:
Calling their own lines in a national championships??

I know - it's ridiculous, in my view.

In France, the national championships are not only for young players but also for young umpires - i.e. you use your best junior umpires, who are then overseen by the Umpiring commission, and it's part of their training.

Works really well....

Dani refused to play at one moment when yet another of her balls was called out by Mika (a couple of her calls were definitely dodgy). And the official had to come. Flora was very stressed at the end of the second set and lost it over her ball that Allegra called out (and was clearly out, IMO), but it was probably the stress that did it. I think Hannah and Heidi replayed a point when they couldn't agree - which wasn't right as the ball was in and Heidi was very well placed to see it, and Hannah was miles away. etc. etc. etc.