Boys & Girls: J300 Beijing, China, hard (Week 40)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: J300 Beijing, China, hard (Week 40)

TW18 · Lower Club Player

Disappointing and surprising to see that a lot of the higher ranked girls have pulled out of Beijing and Osaka. Field wide open. Isabelle Lacy has pulled out of both too and many of the favourites. I wonder why?

Nix · Futures qualifying

TW18 wrote:
Disappointing and surprising to see that a lot of the higher ranked girls have pulled out of Beijing and Osaka. Field wide open. Isabelle Lacy has pulled out of both too and many of the favourites. I wonder why?

Isabelle had a back injury after Wimbledon and ended up having to pull out of the US Open at the last minute. I wonder if unfortunately it's a bit more serious than first thought? At that young age it's absolutely the best thing to really recover from injuries before starting to play again so it sounds like they're doing the right thing.

DavidC · Tennis legend

TW18 wrote:
Disappointing and surprising to see that a lot of the higher ranked girls have pulled out of Beijing and Osaka. Field wide open. Isabelle Lacy has pulled out of both too and many of the favourites. I wonder why?

The Osaka J500 is usually one of the weakest top tier events, so the current entry seems about par there, albeit weak for a J300 in Beijing. As Nix says Isabelle may well be struggling with injury, but even if not the junior events were only her third preference, and I would expect her to prioritise Women's ITFs at present, given her junior ranking should be good enough to give her entry into Australian Open qualifying, even with the points she will drop before the end of the year.

Dani ensured our contingent didn't lose a game in round 1 smile

Boys R2

(1) Oliver Bonding v Jaden Dewandaka Tan (INA)

Artsiom Tsykunenka (***) v (8) Benjamin Gusic Wan

(7) Viktor Frydrych v Robin Boeckli (SUI)

Girls R1 (L48)

Daniela Piani d. (WC) Siyuan Wu (CHN) 6-0 6-0

R2

(1) Laura Samsonova (CZE) v Daniela Piani

(Q) Jingwei Guo (CHN) v (5) Mika Stojsavljevic

(12) Ruby Cooling v (WC) Xiao Tang (CHN)

Minxu Zhou (CHN) v (9) Gabia Paskauskas

Liangling Yan (CHN) v (2) Mingge Xu

DavidC · Tennis legend

6/8 through to round 3, mostly very comfortably Dani posted a good score, playing the top seed who beat Hannah and Mimi over the summer, but Ruby was upset by a local wildard

Boys R2

(1) Oliver Bonding d. Jaden Dewandaka Tan (INA) 6-1 6-1
(8) Benjamin Gusic Wan d. Artsiom Tsykunenka (***) 6-1 6-1
(7) Viktor Frydrych d. Robin Boeckli (SUI) 6-1 7-5

R3

(1) Oliver Bonding v (14) Marek Nano (SVK)
Weiyi Kong (CHN) v (8) Benjamin Gusic Wan
(7) Viktor Frydrych v (9) Matteo Sciahbasi (ITA)

Girls R2

(1) Laura Samsonova (CZE) d. Daniela Piani 6-3 6-4
(5) Mika Stojsavljevic d. (Q) Jingwei Guo (CHN) 5-0 rtd
(WC) Xiao Tang (CHN) d. (12) Ruby Cooling 6-1 6-2
(9) Gabia Paskauskas d. Minxu Zhou (CHN) 6-1 6-2
(2) Mingge Xu d. Liangling Yan (CHN) 6-2 6-1

R3

(WC) Ruien Zhang (CHN) (5) Mika Stojsavljevic
(6) Margot Phanthala (FRA) v (9) Gabia Paskauskas
(14) Laura Brunkel (DEN) v (2) Mingge Xu

TW18 · Lower Club Player

DavidC wrote:
6/8 through to round 3, mostly very comfortably Dani posted a good score, playing the top seed who beat Hannah and Mimi over the summer, but Ruby was upset by a local wildard

Boys R2

(1) Oliver Bonding d. Jaden Dewandaka Tan (INA) 6-1 6-1
(8) Benjamin Gusic Wan d. Artsiom Tsykunenka (***) 6-1 6-1
(7) Viktor Frydrych d. Robin Boeckli (SUI) 6-1 7-5

R3

(1) Oliver Bonding v (14) Marek Nano (SVK)
Weiyi Kong (CHN) v (8) Benjamin Gusic Wan
(7) Viktor Frydrych v (9) Matteo Sciahbasi (ITA)

Girls R2

(1) Laura Samsonova (CZE) d. Daniela Piani 6-3 6-4
(5) Mika Stojsavljevic d. (Q) Jingwei Guo (CHN) 5-0 rtd
(WC) Xiao Tang (CHN) d. (12) Ruby Cooling 6-1 6-2
(9) Gabia Paskauskas d. Minxu Zhou (CHN) 6-1 6-2
(2) Mingge Xu d. Liangling Yan (CHN) 6-2 6-1

R3

(WC) Ruien Zhang (CHN) (5) Mika Stojsavljevic
(6) Margot Phanthala (FRA) v (9) Gabia Paskauskas
(14) Laura Brunkel (DEN) v (2) Mingge Xu

What a pity Ruby lost. I'd really like to see her do well. Laura Samsonova....did she beat Mimi? I don't remember that. I know Hannah retired in the match with Laura, but can't remember Mimi getting beaten.

TW18 · Lower Club Player

Ahhhhhhh do you mean doubles? Yes, Samsonova did beat both Klugman/Lacy and Mimi/Ranah in doubles.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Our youngsters are doing well in China

Big points going on, and still counting

Into the QFs are:

Mimi and Gabia in the girls

and all three boys - Charlie, Oli and Viktor

Only Mika lost (to a girl ranked outside the top-3000!!! But I guess that's not a true ranking..... probably hasn't played much outside of China)

Lambda · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:

Only Mika lost (to a girl ranked outside the top-3000!!! But I guess that's not a true ranking..... probably hasn't played much outside of China)

According to what I've read supposedly the best junior in China and has been signed with Starwing since aged 12.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:

Only Mika lost (to a girl ranked outside the top-3000!!! But I guess that's not a true ranking..... probably hasn't played much outside of China)

According to what I've read supposedly the best junior in China and has been signed with Starwing since aged 12.

Thanks

I've never heard of her

I'm slightly surprised that, if she's supposed to be that good, she went and played two events in Turkey this summer.

One was a J30 where she went out in R3, which is pretty much the lowest of the low - only 2 points

And then lost in R1 of a J100

It's hardly scintillating

Although she might have had injury issues as there was a forfait in the J30 event

However, she's certainly having a very impressive run here so I'll follow her with more interest now

DavidC · Tennis legend

TW18 wrote:
DavidC wrote:
6/8 through to round 3, mostly very comfortably Dani posted a good score, playing the top seed who beat Hannah and Mimi over the summer, but Ruby was upset by a local wildard

What a pity Ruby lost. I'd really like to see her do well. Laura Samsonova....did she beat Mimi? I don't remember that. I know Hannah retired in the match with Laura, but can't remember Mimi getting beaten.

Sorry I misremembered the European Summer Cup final - it was Hannah K who Samsonova beat there, before the US Open, whilst Mimi lost to another Czech rising star Alena Kovackova

Boys R3

(1) Oliver Bonding d. (14) Marek Nano (SVK) 7-5 6-2
(8) Benjamin Gusic Wan d. Weiyi Kong (CHN) 6-1 6-4
(7) Viktor Frydrych d. (9) Matteo Sciahbasi (ITA) 6-2 6-3

QF

(1) Oliver Bonding v (6) Jan Kumstat (CZE)
(4) Daniil Sarksian (***) v (8) Benjamin Gusic Wan
(7) Viktor Frydrych v (20 Tianhui Zhang (CHN)

Girls R3

(WC) Ruien Zhang (CHN) d. (5) Mika Stojsavljevic 7-5 7-5
(9) Gabia Paskauskas d. (6) Margot Phanthala (FRA) 6-4 6-1
(2) Mingge Xu d. (14) Laura Brunkel (DEN) 4-6 6-4 6-1

QF

(9) Gabia Paskauskas v (3) Emily Sartz-Lunde (NOR)
Shiyu Ye (CHN) v (2) Mingge Xu

DavidC · Tennis legend

Good progress in the doubles as well where we have representation in all 4 semis

Boys Doubles SF

Chen/Zhang (CHN) v (4) Bonding / Gusic Wan
(3) Frydrych/Sarksian (GBR/***) v (2) Derepasko/Kumstat (***/CZE)

Girls Doubles SF

(1) Stojsavljevic/Xu v Wei/Zhang (CHN)
(8) Cooling/Piani v Liang/Zhang (CHN)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Boys:

Our top seed, Oli, couldn't pull off a win
But our two lower seeds beat higher-ranked players to make the semis
With Ben Gusic Wan blasting his opponent off the court with two bagels

QF

(1) Oliver Bonding LOST to (6) Jan Kumstat (CZE) 6-2 2-6 6-3

(8) Benjamin Gusic Wan def. (4) Daniil Sarksian (***) 6-0 6-0

(7) Viktor Frydrych def. (2) Tianhui Zhang (CHN) 3-6 7-5 6-2

Girls:

The Czech top seed proved too strong for the enigmatic, practically unranked, Chinese 'wunderkind'
But both our girls came through

QF

(9) Gabia Paskauskas def. (3) Emily Sartz-Lunde (NOR) 6-2 2-2 ret.

(2) Mingge Xu def. Shiyu Ye (CHN) 6-3 6-2

They'll play each other in the semis

Var · Club Coach

Coup Droit wrote:
Boys:

Our top seed, Oli, couldn't pull off a win
But our two lower seeds beat higher-ranked players to make the semis
With Ben Gusic Wan blasting his opponent off the court with two bagels

QF

(1) Oliver Bonding LOST to (6) Jan Kumstat (CZE) 6-2 2-6 6-3

(8) Benjamin Gusic Wan def. (4) Daniil Sarksian (***) 6-0 6-0

(7) Viktor Frydrych def. (2) Tianhui Zhang (CHN) 3-6 7-5 6-2

Girls:

The Czech top seed proved too strong for the enigmatic, practically unranked, Chinese 'wunderkind'
But both our girls came through

QF

(9) Gabia Paskauskas def. (3) Emily Sartz-Lunde (NOR) 6-2 2-2 ret.

(2) Mingge Xu def. Shiyu Ye (CHN) 6-3 6-2

They'll play each other in the semis

So CD, assuming Viktor and Ben will rise in rankings? ALong with Gabia and Mimi?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yep, absolutely.

And Ben & Oli have just made the doubles finals, as have Mimi & Mika, so even better.

Ben will have a big jump - just eyeballing it, I make him to be somewhere about 110 (i.e. about 50 places higher)

I think Viktor will be about 80 (i.e. about 15 places higher)

Gabia should go up to about 145 (about 45 places higher)

Mimi, though, at the moment will not move. This only gives her 40 net points as of this week's counters, and next week she has 140 coming off so it's a straight swap (she also has excellent doubles points already).

These are all just on where they are now, of course, as semi-finalists..... all set to change, hopefully, tomorrow