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okonkwo also wins set 1 7-5 against ilias, who was serving for the set at 5-4

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Am enjoying watching a bit of Jefferson and Harrison (sounds like a firm of solicitors) - never seen Seb play before.

Henry continues to be underwhelming but it's very tight and he had a very, very lucky dead net ball and is now serving for the first set at 6-5 



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 9th of April 2023 11:40:42 AM

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Coup Droit wrote:

It's a shame there's no steam for qualis but the three matches I'm most curious about today are:

Alex Okonwko v Ilias
Dilhan W v Oli Hague
Henry J v Seb Harrison

The Okonkwo family have three sons (that I know of). All three are tall, well-built, pretty amazing 'athletic specimen' guys. Also, really nice kids, and nice parents too.

Oliver Okonwko is a very good tennis player, at college in the US. Age 22 now - am hoping to see him give the pro tour a try at some time.
I saw him play in juniors a couple of time
There's an excellent 20 sec interview and tennis clip here:

youtu.be/G7OybBqBpqM

The middle son, James, is 6 ft 8, and basically grew too tall for tennis - had an excellent serve but then tripped over his feet He's doing basketball in the US college system and doing really well

Alex is the youngest (that I know of). Again, compared to your average 17 year-old, he's twice the size and twice the power. It's never easy as a youngster to learn know how to use that power to your advantage - to find the right balance. But Alex has been playing British Tour and UTR events recently and so the match practice should have done him good. Ilias is a very decent player so I'd have like to see that match

 And Alex wins 7-6 6-4   

Really pleased - now to keep focus for the second match (the FQR) this afternoon

Henry came through 7-5 6-2 : some good serves, and a little bit of luck at the end of the tight first set.

Dilhan's score was more one-sided than I expected - only saw a few balls though 

 



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super happy for Alex,hes playing fabio nestola now. should be a good match to watch if its on one of the broadcasted courts

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Alex wins the first set 6-2

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Yes - a really good set. Some nice serving, nice net approaches, little bit lacking in footwork, as normal....

But I wouldn't trust Alex not to go a bit AWOL in the second set

And Fab has been off for a bathroom break, to get his head together, I imagine, more than anything else

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I agree coup but hes held first service game so lets see

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But then gets broken . Come on Alex

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twentytoone wrote:

I agree coup but hes held first service game so lets see

 Yeah, but several nasty UEs in the that game and he's now broken

He's not the first or the last to do it - but it's a shame when you just know it'll happen

However, plenty of time....



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Im really noticing a difference in the quality of the 18u and 16u. Even though oli bonding and gusic-wan are two of our best under 18 the overall quality of even the 18u qualifying is a whole different level

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Absolutely dreadful game from both Fabio and Alex - Fab had a DF, hardly any first serves, two really sloppy UEs..... and Alex hit a passing shot to planet Mars, dumped an easy second serve in the net ....

Really bad window on boys tennis - wake up lads - and Fabio won the game

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6-2 Fabio in the second set. Third set tie break here we come!

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i love a 3rd set tiebreak

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Fabio with a terrible call for let at 6-5 Alex then smashed a forehand long

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Alex wins 10-8

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