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GB is the only country with 3 teams left in the 4 sets of semis; we may in fact be the only team with 4 or Brazil may join us on 3. Either way, we have shown to have the strongest range and depth here, something to be pleased about - well done Team GB, so far.

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In the womens, France secure the third semi place and, I think, a tie with Netherlands.

In summary, we have:

Men

Japan (1) v GB (5)

France (3) v Chile (6)

Women

Netherlands (1) v France (3)

GB (4) v Japan (2)

Quad

NL (1) v USA (4)

Brazil (3) v GB (2)

Junior

USA (3) v Brazil (2)

Belgium (1) v GB (4)

amazing effort by Lucy as our women complete the quartet and all 4 British teams reach the semis. Great effort so far! 

 



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The women and junior semis are Friday, men and quad semis Saturday.

So tomorrow we have these plus lots of lower level positional matches

Women

Netherlands (1) v France (3)

GB (4) v Japan (2)

Junior

USA (3) v Brazil (2)

Belgium (1) v GB (4)

Japan will be hard for Britains women, particularly after a long hard day today for Lucy. Japan will be firm favourites.

In the junior event, Belgium may be top seeds but they lost to the USA and we could push them. Belgium slight favourites but we have a chance.

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The Junior semis are underway, GB v Belgium and USA v Brazil.

The Women's semis, GB v Japan, and NL v France take place later in the day as matches 4-6 on their respective courts.

GB have started well in the juniors and won the opening set of the first singles rubber.

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GB start well as Lucas John De Gouveia wins his opening singles against Luna Gryp (Luna is the world third ranked girl) - as mentioned these are mixed events although GB has an all boys squad.

Next up Ruben Harris plays Alex Lantermann - the Belgian is ranked higher than Ruben and won their last 3 matches incl a few weeks ago in Belgium where he won very comfortably. So Ruben is up against it, but we have one singles in the bag and it could come down to doubles, where it feels like a 50/50 match.

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Ruben lost the top singles and so it is 1-1 and down to the doubles. The USA lead Brazil 1-0 in the other after a hard fought opening singles

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The women's semis are underway also - in the opening singles, Cornelia lost 3 and 1 to her much higher ranked opponent; Lucy goes next against world number 1, Kamiji, and I think it feels likely we will need to resort to a bronze medal match in the womens. In the other semi, the Dutch lead France 1-0 and should see it through, meaning we most likely will have the bronze match against France

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Britains juniors are one set all in the doubles, down to a final match tie break.

Come on GB!

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GB did it, 10-7 in the MTB and into the final of the Junior World Cup event, where they will play USA.

Well done to the team, looking at rankings, we stand a decent chance against the USA team, although it will be close.



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Mens and quads semis kick off play tomorrow , men versus Japan on centre court and quad v Brazil on court C2.

The womens bronze match v France also starts play on court C4.

The junior final v the USA is in the second set of matches (matches 4-6) on court D1.

Good luck to all.

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Thank you for all the World Team Cup info.

Hope we have at least one winning team.

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Thanks Indy - we have surpassed expectations to get 4 teams this far, but none of them would have been expected to take a title at the start. The mens is severely weakened by not having Alfie and Gordon, for reasons I know not, and wont win over Japan, probably. Quad team is definitely weaker than NL team and probably wont get a title. Its down to the Junior team to beat the USA if we they can. Going to be interesting tomorrow.

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The quad men could beat Brazil, however, and make the final.

The junior final is hard to call- the USA juniors have two girls in the team and its hard to know how they match up versus our boys; our top boy, Ruben, is ranked above their top nominated player, Maximus Wong, so we could take that.
The number two singles has a British boy versus a very good American girl; and then it would be doubles. Hard to call!

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Our players have never played their two girls according to ITF records. And our lads are aged 12-14 depending on who they pick as number two - Matt Knoesen is ranked second for us but aged 12, sabina Czauz is 18! So its going to be interesting. The two number ones have no head to head record either.

I suspect we will go with Lucas John De Gouveaia as our number two (although ranked 4) and he will play Sabina Czauz. Ruben will head our line against Wong BUT although ranked higher, Ruben lost today to the Belgian who in turn lost to Wong the other day.

Theres a very good chance doubles will decide this.

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Watching these moments show how big this event is to the players - the Chilean doubles player is in bits and the British team delighted !

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