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Boys & Girls: XXIX Taça Internacional Maia Jovem Tennis Europe U14 Super Category, Portugal, clay (Week 17)
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This is the third of the Tennis Europe Super Category events this year, with Mark Ceban top seeded. Some of the top ranked boys are missing, but his nearest rival currently for the number 1 ranking Savva Rybkin (who beat him in the previous Super Category event in Sweden is here)  Live streaming is available from the host website   Although there are only 4 British direct entries no fewer than 6 boys and 3 girls have made it to final qulifying

The Tennis Europe event page rather incongruously declares that "1 GIRL QUALI/LUCKY LOSER WILL BE TOSSED TO PLAY AGAINST HEINS (LUX) NB13:00"

Boys R1 (L64)

(1) Mark Ceban v Tomas Serrano (POR)

Girls R1 (L64)

Maria Carneiro (POR) v Celine Ricaud

(5) Hollie Smart v Q/LL

Eva Hutchins v (12) Kiira Pashkov (EST)

 



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And of our 6 boys who made it into final qualifiying, FIVE of them won

So into the main draw go:

Niall PICKERD-BARUA
Matt Mclain
Oluwajomiloju AMINU
Scott Watson
Dan Joita


In the girls, it was only one out of three, but well done to:

Sevil PARVIZ

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great to see - how many of these Super Category events are there for the Under 14's - are they effectively, with the Orange Bowl, the grand slams of this age bracket?

Actually - did I read one of the slams (Wimbledon?) was introducing an Under 14 event this year - or did I just make that up??

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Wimbledon had it last year

We had Mika and Isabelle Britton doing particularly well.

I think Isa made the semis from recollection - can't quite remember - it must be back in the juniors threads somewhere

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Watched 10 mins of Celine's match (that girl has to be French, surely - she's called Celine Ricaud and looks SO French )

She won 6-1 in the third

Rather sedate sort of match, but partly because of her opponent, I guess

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Mark was also in action today, an untroubled 6-0 6-0.



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Coup Droit wrote:

Wimbledon had it last year

We had Mika and Isabelle Britton doing particularly well.

I think Isa made the semis from recollection - can't quite remember - it must be back in the juniors threads somewhere

 Mika won the Roehampton event last year, which was a qualifier for Wimbledon, while Izzie reached the semis at Wimbledon



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JonH comes home wrote:

great to see - how many of these Super Category events are there for the Under 14's - are they effectively, with the Orange Bowl, the grand slams of this age bracket?

Actually - did I read one of the slams (Wimbledon?) was introducing an Under 14 event this year - or did I just make that up??

 There were 5 Super Category events when originally introduced, with Les Petits As the highest profile. However one of the 5 was in Russia, and I don't know if there will be a replacement. Les Petits As has an international field comparable to the Orange Bowl but the other Super Category events are highly European



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Two expeditive wins from Hollie Smart and 2010-born Sevil Parvez.

Watched 10 mins of each and very in control, nice tennis

Aminu Oluwajomiloju (who goes by Jomi, I believe) also showed some nice tennis - a bit raw but lots of power and some skills too. He lost 6-2 6-4 but there one to keep an eye on.....

Matt Mclain and Eva H lost pretty easily, although Eva hung in well in the second set (when she wasn't looking all huffy coz she'd missed a ball)

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Sevil gets the chance to tackle top seed Ksenia Efremova. Daniel also won 6-1 6-1. Live scores are available here

Boys R2

(1) Mark Ceban v Luukas Raudkivi (EST)
(Q) Daniel Joita v (11) Andreas Philip Cort Malee Hansen (DEN)

Girls R2

(1) Ksenia Efremova (***) v (Q) Sevil Parviz
Celine Ricaud v (13) Nikola Farkasova (SVK)
(5) Hollie Smart v Beatriz Angelico (POR)





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Very easy win for Hollie

Sevil lost, which was to be expected of course. But she's a year younger, she was playing the top seed. So all credit to her - she put up a good fight, played some nice tennis. She's improved from last year, and is definitely going in the right direction.

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Mark made it 2 through to round 3 and Daniel came close to an upset. Tomorrow Hollie is second on court 1 and Mark third on Centre

Boys R2

(1) Mark Ceban d. Luukas Raudkivi (EST) 7-6(3) 6-1
(11) Andreas Philip Cort Malee Hansen (DEN) d. (Q) Daniel Joita 5-7 6-4 7-5

R3

(1) Mark Ceban v (16) Adolfo Abascal (ESP)

Girls R2

(1) Ksenia Efremova (***) d. (Q) Sevil Parviz 6-1 6-3
Celine Ricaud v (13) Nikola Farkasova (SVK) 6-1 6-0
(5) Hollie Smart d. Beatriz Angelico (POR) 6-0 6-2

R3

(5) Hollie Smart v (10) Barbara Kostecka (POL)

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Not a great shock that Mark should find a Spaniard too tough on clay, but the scoreline is disappointing. Hollie though progresses to the quarters. It is her turn to face a Spaniard, who took out the third seed today

Boys R3

(16) Adolfo Abascal (ESP) d. (1) Mark Ceban 6-1 6-3

Girls R3

(5) Hollie Smart d. (10) Barbara Kostecka (POL) 6-4 6-2

QF

(5) Hollie Smart v Mireia Sagrista Bermejo (ESP)


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Another convincing scoreline from Hollie who makes her first Super Category semi. Ksenia Efremova tackles the Czech 4th seed in the other semi

QF

(5) Hollie Smart d. Mireia Sagrista Bermejo (ESP) 6-2 6-3

SF

(5) Hollie Smart v (8) Ioana-Stefania Boian (ROU)

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I was impressed with the bits I saw of Hollie in her match against the Spanish girl

Not overly in terms of the tennis as such.

But just that she seemed to have adapted well to clay and to realise what clay demands

I assume Hollie doesn't play on clay much..... (might be wrong)



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