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Coup Droit wrote:

This might be a bit specialist (or sad ) but I loved the U11 girls' final

Ginny Chen had been dominant up till now. And plays a very careful game, lots of high balls, rarely takes the ball on (although she's shown at times that she can but often makes errors)

But Sophia Cuninghame played a far more aggressive game, going for angles and corner, getting more pace, particulalry on her forehand, and serve too

And it's Sophia was won, in over three hours. And deservedly so, IMO.



Sophia def. Ginny 6-4 4-6 6-4

 Thanks - always nice to have reports to put in the memory bank / refer to later on as players develop.

As expected the top 2 seeds and European Summer Cup team members will contest the U14 girls final

U14 Girls SF

(1) Hollie Smart d. Ophelia Korpanec Davies 6-3 6-1
(2) Edie Griffiths  d. (5) Rosie Cho 6-1 6-4

U11 Boys F

Frederick Fabricius d. Max Hodkinson  7-6(5) 6-4



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Rhys Lawlor and Leo Wright returned from the Czech Republic in time for the U14 doubles event which they won. Hollie and Edie combined for the U14 girls doubles title

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Hollie Smart is the under 14 singles champion continuing her stellar year by not dropping a set here. Only Celine Ricaud was able to win more than a handful of games against her. The under 12 finals appear to be on course for Sunday

U14 Girls F

(1) Hollie Smart d. (2) Edie Griffiths 6-3 6-2

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Only saw about five minutes of that match - Hollie was on good form and the score seemed about fair

Pleased that Celine really pushed her though

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DavidC wrote:

Niall is the 2023 Under 14 boys champion after a comfortable win over Eric. Hollie came through a competitive match with Celine, whilst Edie progressed more easily. As in the previous round Rosie came back from losing the opening set 6-0

U14 Girls QF

(1) Hollie Smart d. (6) Celine Ricaud 7-6(2) 6-4
Ophelia Korpanec Davies d. (7) Daisy Wootton 6-4 6-2
(5) Rosie Cho d. (WC) Annabel Wong 0-6 6-2 6-0
(2) Edie Griffiths d. Martha Ground 6-1 6-2

SF

(1) Hollie Smart v Ophelia Korpanec Davies
(5) Rosie Cho v (2) Edie Griffiths

U14 Boys F

(7) Niall Pickerd-Barua d. (5) Eric Lorimer 6-1 6-3

U11 Girls F

Ginny Chen v Sophia Cunninghame

U11 Boys F

Frederick Fabricius v Max Hodkinson


 Even with a weaker field, impressive that Niall has won the 12s and 14s titles back to back.



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Well, that's curious.....

In the U12 semis, we have Khadija ADENIRAN, who hits a forehand on both sides AND serves with either arm - her deuce serves are usually right-handed and her ad-serves are generally left-handed 

She hits all her left sided shots as forehands, both chippy/choppy ones and full blown drives or top-spin kickers - it's rather weird - obviously natural and not taught - must make it quite tricky for her coach

It also seems that she used to play for the USA - I assume she must have switched recently because everything on line says she's American

THere's a lot of coverage about her 'two-sidedness' too, not suprisingly 




-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 19th of August 2023 12:38:48 PM

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And Khadija won, 6-1 2-6 6-4

She was playing Leah Bush who I'm pretty sure is Tegan's younger sister.

Khadija's quite a little girl (maybe a year younger?), but very dynamic and had obviously worked in the gym, although very slender.

But such a strange technique (I tried very hard but couldn't quite see where she was holding the racket - she seemed to manage to get her hand to the lowest part on both sides, which is no mean feat)

And the US/UK thing intrigues me.....



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Liv Zingg (born 14th Nov 2011, a late 2011-er) won the other semi-final reasonably easily

She beat Yanziye Zhang (who goes by Judy on her social media etc pages), also born 2011

It was a good match - Liv being that little bit stronger overall, as the score shows - but nice tennis from both


So it's the LTA mainstream pick of Liv Zingg v the 'unique' stlye of the new girl, Khadija Adeniran for the U12 final

(remembering that Mega Knight is not taking part)







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Curious indeed. According to her Tennis Europe profile Khadija is 2011 born (Minnesota) and played Halton at the beginning of August as an American. She is listed as being based in London with her favourite player being Khadija Adeniran smile

The under 12 boys final is between 2 of our European Summer Cup team Samuel Riley and Kamran Arif



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Khadija is stated as GBR on, what I assume is the initial registration, for the girls 12 junior orange bowl last year.


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Yes, presumably she must have changed and is GBR now, or she'd not be in the National Championships
And she's playing for Middlesex, which ties in with David's London based
But it must be very recent - every event up till now has been as USA

Anyway, if you're reading this, Khadija, you're very welcome

And the ambidextrous in spades technique will cause quite a lot talk



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 19th of August 2023 05:27:54 PM

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Coup Droit wrote:

Well, that's curious.....

In the U12 semis, we have Khadija ADENIRAN, who hits a forehand on both sides AND serves with either arm - her deuce serves are usually right-handed and her ad-serves are generally left-handed 

She hits all her left sided shots as forehands, both chippy/choppy ones and full blown drives or top-spin kickers - it's rather weird - obviously natural and not taught - must make it quite tricky for her coach

It also seems that she used to play for the USA - I assume she must have switched recently because everything on line says she's American

THere's a lot of coverage about her 'two-sidedness' too, not suprisingly 




-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 19th of August 2023 12:38:48 PM

 Is this something she can maintain or will she grow or be coached out of it?



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The U12 girls final is currently on stream with commentary here (Liv leads 6-3 2-0)



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Dodrade, just my opinion but I bet she sticks to it

I expect she's had a few coaches already who've suggested she adopt a more classic technique, and her - and her father maybe - have decided no, she's doing it her own way.

(I say father, not mother, only because I'm pretty sure it's her father who's been on the sidelines all this event, and I haven't seen any mother).

From my own small experience, players like Khadija (and team), i.e. those with a very unusual style, are often rather 'stubborn' - which is not necessarily a criticism.

I assume she's Muslim, given her name (Prophet Mohammad's first wife, I believe) and attire. Which is great - tennis has very very few Muslim players, especially female.

She's getting easily beaten today by Zingg.

But to be fair to Khadija, she's trying to be aggressive on her second serves, her returns, everything, and it's just not working (which is partly thanks to Liv's tennis, of course)

Talking of which, I note that Liv Zingg was runner-up in the Swiss U12 national championships last year. I knew she used to play for Switzerland (and I assume her dad is Swiss - Zingg is a very Swiss name) but I didn't realise it was quite so recent .....

www.swisstennis.ch/fr/news/news-details/520/vaudoise-junior-champion-trophy-voici-les-nouveaux-champions-.html



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 20th of August 2023 01:02:00 PM

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Most of the remaining games were competitive but Liv won them all so takes the title 6-3 6-0

Kamran Arif won the boys U12 final 5-7 7-5 6-3

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