A topsy-turvy second set, with Mika leading 4*-1 only to lose the next 4 games, then win 2 to serve for the match, but fail to convert. Both players had points to win the resulting tiebreak (mainly Mika), but Mika takes it 13-11 to qualify

FQR

Mika Stojsavljevic d. (qWC) Julieta Pareja (USA) 6-4 7-6(11)

Such a good effort to get through GS qualifying. Not easy at any level. Well done.

That was a battling win. Almost 2 and a half hours. Well done Mika.

Main draws are out. Isabelle is in it, but faces a tough match against the second seed and Roland Garros runner-up. Oliver Bonding fares even worse, being drawn against the boys top seed. Henry appears to be in a good eighth of the draw for him to progress. Hannah faces the unusual situation of playing someone younger than herself, while it is Mimi's turn to face Emerson Jones (Mimi beat her at Roehampton). Mika gets a repeat of her Wimbledon round 1

Boys R1 (L64)

(1) Yaroslav Demin (***) v Oliver Bonding
Yuvan Nandal (IND) v (4) Henry Searle

Girls R1 (L64)

(WC) Valerie Glozman (USA) v Ella McDonald
(Q) Mika Stojsavljevic v Wakana Sonobe (IPN)
Hannah Klugman v (WC) Kristina Penickova (USA)
Mingge Xu v (12) Emerson Jones (AUS)
(SE) Isabelle Lacy v (2) Luciana Perez-Alarcon (PER)

Nix wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Oli B draws the top seed and Issy Lacy the second seed. Mimi has the 12th seed, rest all have unseeded openers as far as I could see

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 Poor Isabelle: the tournament winner in the second round at Wimbly and the second seed at the US Open.

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Arguably, the seeding flatters the Peruvian on this surface. She's predominantly a clay courter and rarely travels out of South America. Isabelle is 1-1 against her this year albeit the win came on grass and the loss on hard. Aside from that tournament in which Perez beat Isabelle in February, which is the last time she played on hard and which she won, and the tournament the week before in which she got to the SF (both J300s) the Peruvian had done nothing of note in hard court events before that. Indeed, take away those 2 tournaments and her junior record is 8-10 on hard. However, obviously she doesn't win a J300 and get to the SF of another without having an ability to play on hard. Hopefully Isabelle and her team will have a video of that match in February to watch it back and understand what she needs to do to beat the Peruvian. If Isabelle is fit and carrys last week's form, I think it's winnable.

Boys R1 (L64)

(1) Yaroslav Demin (***) v Oliver Bonding     Ct 13 match 2
Yuvan Nandal (IND) v (4) Henry Searle   Ct 12 match 4

Girls R1 (L64)

(WC) Valerie Glozman (USA) v Ella McDonald   Ct 13 match 1
(Q) Mika Stojsavljevic v Wakana Sonobe (IPN)    Ct 14 match 3
Hannah Klugman v (WC) Kristina Penickova (USA)    Monday
Mingge Xu v (12) Emerson Jones (AUS)    Monday
(SE) Isabelle Lacy v (2) Luciana Perez-Alarcon (PER)  Ct 11 match 4