DavidC wrote:

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The Junior Billie Jean King Cup follows a similar format to the Junior Davis Cup, with 4 Round Robin groups of 4 playing Monday - Wednesday before place matches from Friday.  Finishing in the top 2 of their round robin group should be comfortable for the team of Mingge Xu, Hannah Klugman and Hephzibah Oluwadare, seeded 2 (the other top seeds are Czechia, japan and the USA).  We are in a group with Argentina, Brazil and Kazakhstan - full draw here.

Stats on all 16 nations are here  There should be a link to live scores and a live stream from the ITF website tomorrow.

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 Thanks, David. It is looking promising for Mimi. Hannah and Hep. Fingers crossed for a good run!

Seven of the eight seeded nations won both singles matches to secure victory today. The one exception was the eighth seeds Argentina, in our group, who actually lost both singles to Kazakhstan before claiming the doubles. Whether that represents Kazakhstan being underrated or a bad day for Argentina (their number 1 is ranked around WTA850, having reached a W15 final during the summer) remains to be seen. Tomorrow we play Argentina, and that has been scheduled for court AeroC which was the streamed court today. If the match is streamed you should find links both to the stream and live scores here

Round Robin 1

GBR 3 Brazil 0

Hannah Klugman beat Carolina Bohrer Martins 6-1 6-4
Mingge Xu beat Pietra Rosolen Rivoli 6-2 6-0
Oluwadare/Xu beat Bohrer Martins / Rosolen Rivoli 6-4 6-3

Coup Droit wrote:

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Nix wrote:

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She takes the first set 7-5. Didn't see it though as just tuned in to the broadcast.

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 I saw from 4-4 onwards - lots of breaks

Hannah served for it at 5-4

And then again at 6-5

And should have got broken really but she served two let serves and so got two dead lucky service winners (the juniors apparently don't play the normal let serve rule at this event) 

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 that is interesting! Is that the same case in any other events (Boys DC last week?) or is it just a one off trial?

Coup Droit wrote:

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They do it at a lot of junior events. But not all. I don't know the rhyme or reason for which and which not.

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 thanks CD, I had no idea! I think the NextGen ATP Finals used this rule in past years, although not certain, but it is interesting to see it is more widespread than I expected. 

I actually see the let rule as one that so could easily be got rid of and it adds little to the game - yeah, the receiver or server may get lucky with the bounce off the net, but I dont think we need to start the serve process again because of it, let's just go with the occasional randomness it creates - we are happy to let it be in rally's , why not for the serve!