Boys & Girls: J30 Liverpool, GB - hard (Week 45)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Boys & Girls: J30 Liverpool, GB - hard (Week 45)

TW18 · Lower Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Celine won a TE event at Liverpool, last year? and got a wildcard on the back of it. I've seen Kouros and Connor before at Liverpool.
Yes. I think it's why I've got her ingrained in my mind as being from Liverpool

Ha, ha!

Not planning on going to the J30 this time, but will keep my eye out!

-- Edited by TW18 on Sunday 5th of November 2023 08:12:03 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Boys:

Young Rhys Lawlor got a R1 win (over an Irish lad)

As did Jesse Clarkson, over the top seed

ANd congrats to the following for beating 'peskies':

Rafa Kiss, CHarlie Swaine, Leo Wright and Harry Abel

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Girls:

Some big results here

Serena Manca, the top seed, lost to a Lithuanian girl

Rosie Cho (age 13, mentioned above) put out the second seed (in a third-set TB)

Paulisi's Liana Sharratt Blanksby beat Gabby Read 0 & 0, which is going it some

Pleased to see young Celine Ricaud got a win too

Well done to Lily Doherty, too, who beat the 5th seed from Ireland

paulisi · Tennis legend

Watched a bit of Rhys - quite stock and has a solid serve and good all round game. Came across a huge Irish lad who starting serving bombs, but then his serving went array and Rhys had a straight forward win.

Jess Clarkson is quite short, but beat an out of sorts top seed.

Daisy Wooton, having qualified, elected to drop out, to the the TE event instead. That starts at Liverpool tomorrow(only room for half the first round draw)

Two or three mismatches in the girls, with very easy wins.
Rosie Cho won a three and a half hour marathon than finished at 7.45pm

-- Edited by paulisi on Monday 6th of November 2023 08:49:51 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Celine's match ended in controversy with her opponent, who is a Surrey team mate, despite her nationality, losing the plot after a couple of contentious points in the last two points of the match.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Watched a bit of Rhys - quite stock and has a solid serve and good all round game. Came across a huge Irish lad who starting serving bombs, but then his serving went array and Rhys had a straight forward win.

Jess Clarkson is quite short, but beat an out of sorts top seed.

Daisy Wooton, having qualified, elected to drop out, to the the TE event instead. That starts at Liverpool tomorrow(only room for half the first round draw)

Two or three mismatches in the girls, with very easy wins.
Rosie Cho won a three and a half hour marathon than finished at 7.45pm

-- Edited by paulisi on Monday 6th of November 2023 08:49:51 PM

Tx, again smile

I saw that Daisy was scheduled to play tomorrow in the U14 event

But assumed she'd at least play her R1 match here, in the J30 event - which could give her a ranking and might be very useful going forward. I don't really understand why that wouldn't have been sensible (unless she's tired from yesterday)

paulisi · Tennis legend

She cannot play both and decided to play the TE event, she has won 2 already this year.
A very strange choice...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

But she could have played R1 today and then withdrawn
I mean, it doesn't make much difference
She's playing both events anyway
But yes, I agree, weird choice, especially as she's not aiming to make the U15 masters or whatever

Lambda · Challenger level

As she isn't allowed to play the TE until she has been eliminated from the ITF and has permission from the ITF supervisor on the release form, could it be that she would not have been given permission by the ITF supervisor to play the TE if she had withdrawn to play in another event having played in a main draw match, but she would get permission by declining the place in the main draw and allowing someone else the opportunity to play.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
As she isn't allowed to play the TE until she has been eliminated from the ITF and has permission from the ITF supervisor on the release form, could it be that she would not have been given permission by the ITF supervisor to play the TE if she had withdrawn to play in another event having played in a main draw match, but she would get permission by declining the place in the main draw and allowing someone else the opportunity to play.

That sounds quite feasible - it does seem 'fairer' to give a LL spot than just to give your next opponent a walkover.

Would make sense from the ITF supervisor point of view

Still strange that she chose to do that in the first place (prioritise the TE event, that is). But that's a different question.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Wins so far for Sophie Johnstone and Rosie Cho

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Liana Sharratt Blanksby continues on her merry way

I remember her name as being a real starlet, age 10 or 11

Awful that she's been injured for such a long time

She plays Sarah Copley next, which will be an interesting contest

Glad that young Rosie had an easier time of it today - she plays the LL from Italy tomorrow

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Very pleased to see young Celine Ricaud doing well

A wildcard here, she beat the 7th seed, Alice Haddad

And now plays qualifier Sophie Johnstone, who is also having a very good week

paulisi · Tennis legend

Sarah Copley was rather lucky to get through, she was poor for a set and a half.
Rosie played much better than yesterday against a good opponent.
Celine's match was quite tight - I had to leave to go next door to athletics at the end of the first set.
Liana played very well again against big serving Doherty.
Tuna and the Lithuanian girl are dangerous in the draw.
Sophie Johnstone got through despite struggling with her serve.
Eva lost a long baseline tussle against the Italian lucky loser, who Liana has already beaten and has nothing on her second serve.

Didn't see much of the boys games.

In the TE Daisy Wooton won, I saw Watson win a tough 3 setter v a Portuguese lad and the Brit/US player Adeniran - she is tiny and serves with both hands and changes hand to play forehand. She lost by the way.