Other events, 2024 - week 20

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Other events, 2024 - week 20

DavidC · Tennis legend

The second week for the British squad tackling Under 14 Category 1 events has proved successful so far. At the Dr Oetker Trophy event in Bucharest, Romania, two rounds have been played to reach the last 16. All our seeded players (Eric Lorimer, Niall Pickerd-Barua, Scott Watson, Daniella Britton and Liv Zingg) are safely through, along with unseeded Isaac Sallu. Liv Zingg has a tough match next against Ofir Manhard, who along with Daniel Baranes (who is also here) led Israel to victory against Liv and Megan Knight in the European Summer Cup under 12 final last year.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

J60 Latvia

Conor Brady, 2009-born Rhys Lawlor, Abi Redman and Tegan Bush are all through to the QFs

J60 Montenegro

Aleksandar Daskalovic lost in R2

J60 Budapest

Max Castle lost in R1

J30 Turkey

Oliver Dickason won in R2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

J60 Latvia

Two wins but also two 'excellent' losses:

QF Boys

Conor won, 2 & 1

Young Rhys lost against the 2nd seed, 4-6 7-5 6-4

QF Girls

Tegan won, 1 & 0

Abi Redman lost against the 8th seed, 7-6(4) 7-5

Abi is into the semis in the doubles though

twentytoone · Intermediate Club Player

Conor really pushing on this year

DavidC · Tennis legend

In the Tennis Europe Category 1 event in Bucharest we have 5 through to the quarters just as last week. Liv was the one who missed out in round 3 as feared, losing in straight sets to the Israeli prodigy (who had beaten the top seed in the previous round. Scott was pushed to 6-4 in the decider, but Eric, Isaac, Niall and Daniella all had straight sets wins. We have a guaranteed semifinalist as Eric plays Isaac in the quarters.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Isaac Sallu is certainly a new name to me

I like both Israeli girls so interesting to see how they do

Also, Tea Kovacevic is 2nd seed. Tea has just won two J30s - two titles from two appearances (and has only lost one game so far in three matches)

paulisi · Tennis legend

twentytoone wrote:
Conor really pushing on this year

Confidence - started in Liverpool, where big brother was cheering on and then has gone from strength to strength.

He has always had good hands and movement. Power of shot and confidence now added.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

It's all very well but if Conor is going to follow on his brother's footsteps and not go to US college, he's going to have the devil's own job trying to make a go of it. He's a long way off the level at the moment (age 17) for what he's going to need.
Patrick has been putting up funding pages and what have you, offering bronze, silver and gold investments.The site claims that he's raised well over £100k, which is awesome (if true). So maybe they're good at raising money? But both boys have a rather 'light' game, in my view. I would have thought that, at best, college was the ideal pathway for them....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

J60 Latvia

Congrats to Abi Redman who takes the doubles title, alongside Nahir Dogan (TUR)

This is Abi's first doubles title at J60 level (she has one previously at J30 level)

And both Tegan and Conor have made the finals in the singles, so good luck to them both

DavidC · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Isaac Sallu is certainly a new name to me

I like both Israeli girls so interesting to see how they do

Also, Tea Kovacevic is 2nd seed. Tea has just won two J30s - two titles from two appearances (and has only lost one game so far in three matches)

Isaac is a new name to me as well, but clearly one to note as he has beaten TE1 Eric 7-5 5-7 6-1 today. Scott and Niall won in straight sets, so it is Isaac v Scott and Niall v Evan Giurescu (FRA) in the semis in the TE14 Cat 1 event in Bucharest.

Of the Israeli girls Ofir moved on into the semis, but Daniel lost out to Tea, albeit much more closely than Tea's three previous matches. An agonising loss for Daniella 4-6 7-6(4) 7-6(4) to the third seed Maria Pop so British involvement is just in the boys event now.

Oscariyan · Strong Club Player

Thats an impressive scalp from Sallu, well done to him! I wonder if we will hear a lot more from him even after the tournament or whether this is just a one off winning run! He has beaten a couple other seeds too in this tournament

Lambda · Challenger level

It passed without much comment at the time, but Isaac did defeat Plamen Kolev, then the 8 seed and now ranked 6 in the 14&U, in the Super Category in Sweden in February after getting through qualifying and, according to his tournament review on Instagram, turning up there not knowing he would get in. So this isn't just a one off.
He's an Ilkley lad (but let's not tell Jon).

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
It passed without much comment at the time, but Isaac did defeat Plamen Kolev, then the 8 seed and now ranked 6 in the 14&U, in the Super Category in Sweden in February after getting through qualifying and, according to his tournament review on Instagram, turning up there not knowing he would get in. So this isn't just a one off.
He's an Ilkley lad (but let's not tell Jon).

Sounds like a good lad!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Seems Isaac lives in Burley in Wharfedale, a lovely village/town on the edge of the bigger Ilkley. Was a decent young cricketer for Ilkley and appears to have a brother called Eric who plays a decent level of football for Ilkley Town in the West Riding County League.