Boys & Girls: J500 Osaka, Japan, hard (Week 41)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: J500 Osaka, Japan, hard (Week 41)

Var · Club Coach

DavidC wrote:
The second leg in Asia, following a successful haul in Beijing, is one of the top rated tournaments outside grand slams. The Osaka tournament has been on the calendar for many years, and modestly describes itself as the World Super Junior Tennis Championships. The field is quite a lot stronger than in Beijing, at least as far as the seeds are concerned. Most of the Brits have drawn low-ranked locals, but such players have caused a number of upset wins over seeds in early rounds previously
Boys R1 (L64)
(WC) Kanata Ozaki (JPN) v (8) Oliver Bonding
(7) Jangjun Kim (KOR) v Benjamin Gusic Wan
Viktor Frydrych v Yuta Tomida (JPN)
Girls R1 (L64)
(WC) Minori Ishida (JPN) v (15) Mika Stojsavljevic
Daniela Piani v Kanon Sawashiro (JPN)
Hikari Yamamoto (JPN) v Ruby Cooling
(WC) Rin Ito (JPN) v (3) Mingge Zu
Gabia Paskauskas v Hinata Furutani (JPN)

There is a lovely pic on Insta from Mimi en route to Osaka about to land - goodness it gets these kids used to the harsh life ahead of them - with Viktor and Mimi straight off the J300 finals win in Beijing.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

It looks like Ben has withdrawn ::((

Not altogether suprising but obviously more than just a twinge....

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Well, new rankings confirm Mimi as the top British player as she moves to 14th and Hannah falls to 16th this week. Well done to Mimi, and continued well done to Hannah who has had a great season so far.

simon381 · Social player

A general question about the juniors with reference to Mika Stojsavljevic:

I'm sure I read in some rules that juniors of younger ages are restricted in the number of tournaments they can have played at any one time, and the restriction is 14 tournaments for a 14 year old (unless the player is in the world top 20 when it increases to 18 tournaments).

So how is Mika currently playing her 16th tournament?

Maybe the governing body just see some of these rules as guidelines?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

simon381 wrote:
A general question about the juniors with reference to Mika Stojsavljevic:
I'm sure I read in some rules that juniors of younger ages are restricted in the number of tournaments they can have played at any one time, and the restriction is 14 tournaments for a 14 year old (unless the player is in the world top 20 when it increases to 18 tournaments).
So how is Mika currently playing her 16th tournament?
Maybe the governing body just see some of these rules as guidelines?

Not A1 sure that this solves your problem but the rule is definitely that

"The number of tournaments permitted is counted between the date of a players birthday and the day before their next birthday, not between 1 January and 31 December."

As Mika is born in mid-Dec, she has three events that are on her counter sheet that were before mid-Dec 2022, therefore that don't count for this year's 14 max

TW18 · Lower Club Player

simon381 wrote:
A general question about the juniors with reference to Mika Stojsavljevic:
I'm sure I read in some rules that juniors of younger ages are restricted in the number of tournaments they can have played at any one time, and the restriction is 14 tournaments for a 14 year old (unless the player is in the world top 20 when it increases to 18 tournaments).
So how is Mika currently playing her 16th tournament?
Maybe the governing body just see some of these rules as guidelines?

I'm sure CD has answered your question (although I don't understand the answer - way above my head) but....the rules have always been bent for Mika over the years, it seems anyway, so wouldn't be surprised! aww

Lambda · Futures level

That's an unnecessary response. There's no suggestion the rules are being bent for Mika in this instance. She's played 11 tournaments, including this one, as a 14 year old, well within her allowance between her 14th and 15th birthdays. She played 5 tournaments in her last 2 months as a 13 year old, coming out of her allowance for a 13 year old. That's why she's played 16 junior tournaments in the last 12 months.

TW18 · Lower Club Player

Lambda wrote:
That's an unnecessary response. There's no suggestion the rules are being bent for Mika in this instance. She's played 11 tournaments, including this one, as a 14 year old, well within her allowance between her 14th and 15th birthdays. She played 5 tournaments in her last 2 months as a 13 year old, coming out of her allowance for a 13 year old. That's why she's played 16 junior tournaments in the last 12 months.

There's a whole lot of bad feeling behind the Mika rise, for just cause. May be unnecessary but true.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

TW18 wrote:
Lambda wrote:
That's an unnecessary response. There's no suggestion the rules are being bent for Mika in this instance. She's played 11 tournaments, including this one, as a 14 year old, well within her allowance between her 14th and 15th birthdays. She played 5 tournaments in her last 2 months as a 13 year old, coming out of her allowance for a 13 year old. That's why she's played 16 junior tournaments in the last 12 months.
There's a whole lot of bad feeling behind the Mika rise, for just cause. May be unnecessary but true.

For those of us with no clue, tell us some of the reasons behind peoples bad feeling?

DavidC · Tennis legend

The first round was completed today, but Beijing champion Viktor Frydrych was an early casualty, along with Ruby. In doubles the successful Beijing partnership of Mimi and Mika has split up, but both have repaired with strong partners - Mimi with the top seed Kaitlin Quevedo and Mika with Wimbledon champion Laura Samsonova. Both pairs enjoyed wins today

Boys R1 (L64)

(8) Oliver Bonding d. (WC) Kanata Ozaki (JPN) 6-2 6-1
Yuta Tomida (JPN) d. Viktor Frydrych 6-4 6-2

R2

(LL) Jheng-Min Huang (TPE) v (8) Oliver Bonding

Girls R1 (L64)

(15) Mika Stojsavljevic d. (WC) Minori Ishida (JPN) 6-2 6-2
Daniela Piani d. Kanon Sawashiro (JPN) 7-6(3) 6-1
Hikari Yamamoto (JPN) d. Ruby Cooling 6-0 6-2
(3) Mingge Zu d. (WC) Rin Ito (JPN) 6-2 7-5
Gabia Paskauskas d. Hinata Furutani (JPN) 6-3 7-6(5)

R2

Krisha Mahendran (IND) v (15) Mika Stojsavljevic
Daniela Piani v (16) Asylzhan Arystanbekova (KAZ)
Junhan Zhang (CHN) v (3) Mingge Zu
(8) Mika Buchnik (ISR) v Gabia Paskauskas

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Even just winning round 1 will give both Dani P and Gabi a net points increase and a move up the rankings

(although Daniela has three big points scorers to come off in November as her G4 titles roll off)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A reasonably successful day in Osaka

Wins for Mika, Mimi and Oli
Gabi lost 6-4 in the third, which must hurt
Daniela lost easily

DavidC · Tennis legend

Oli+, Viktor+, Mimi+ and Mika+ all reached the doubles quarter-finals

Boys R2

(8) Oliver Bonding d. (LL) Jheng-Min Huang (TPE) 6-0 6-1

R3

(16) Hoyoung Roh (KOR) v (8) Oliver Bonding

Girls R2

(15) Mika Stojsavljevic d. Krisha Mahendran (IND) 6-4 6-2
(16) Asylzhan Arystanbekova (KAZ) d. Daniela Piani 6-3 6-1
(3) Mingge Zu d. Junhan Zhang (CHN) 6-4 7-6(5)
(8) Mika Buchnik (ISR) d. Gabia Paskauskas 2-6 6-3 6-4

R3

(1) Kaitlin Quevedo (USA) v (15) Mika Stojsavljevic
Margot Phanthala (FRA) v (3) Mingge Zu

Mervatron2 · Futures level

Big challenge for Mika next. Hoping she and Mimi can keep getting the wins and the points.

Hoping Ollie can get a good week in this week.