Boys & Girls: J300 Traralgon, Australia, Hard (Week 3)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: J300 Traralgon, Australia, Hard (Week 3)

LordBrownof · Futures level

Mark lost to Lindsay Davenport's kid, who is top 10 ranked and two years older. Very good match from Mark, on the face of it.

DavidC · Tennis legend

All three Brits are scheduled first on at 11pm GMT

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Hannah has a maximum of three matches today - her singles, her doubles and then another round of doubles if she wins that

Brooke has the same 'problem'

Good luck to both of them

Oliver already has a doubles win so he's just got two matches

Mark potentially has two doubles but is out of singles. Same for Flora.

Conor Brady has already got a doubles win and so just one doubles match

DF · Tennis legend

Rain hit this tournament as well as the AO.
However Oliver sadly lost but Hannah and Brooke both won their singles bsfore the rain came down.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Amazing run by Brooke

Beating a player who is top-20 and won a hardcourt J500 title quite recently

This will be her second highest counters

Hannah was a semi-finalist last year, and so has nearly covered her points here and, although the score followers seem to think she's had a bit of a struggle (which may be true), without having a livestream it's not really possible to say and she's won all her matches in two sets so far, so you can't really ask for more.

DavidC · Tennis legend

There is only one seed left apart from Hannah in the girls event, but that is the top seed, who Brooke has to play next. Jeline beat Mika in the World Tennis Tour Junior finals, and she has yet to be troubled here. Doubles is proceeding very slowly with a lot of round 1 matches still to complete, and play suspended today.

Boys R3

(10) Maxwell Exsted (USA) d. (6) Oliver Bonding 6-7(0) 6-3 6-4

Girls R3

(Q) Brooke Black d. (10) Mika Buchnik (ISR) 6-4 6-2
(9) Hannah Klugman d. Kanon Sawashiro (JPN) 6-4 6-2

QF

(1) Jeline Vandromme (BEL) v (Q) Brooke Black
(9) Hannah Klugman v Mia Pohankova (SVK)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brooke put up a good show, esepcially in the first set, but lost to the top seed, not too surprisingly
Hannah was playing her nemesis and SO nearly won the first set - but didn't - and SO closely won the second set - and then walked the third set :)

QF

(1) Jeline Vandromme (BEL) def. (Q) Brooke Black 6-4 6-1

(9) Hannah Klugman def. Mia Pohankova (SVK) 6-7(7) 7-6(8) 6-1

Hannah's match went on for 3h 23 mins

Hannah also has to play two doubles matches after that mammoth singles, but won both of them, playing with young Victoria Barros

Brooke and Flora lost their doubles 8-10 in the MTB :(
Conor+ lost too. As did Mark+.

But Oli is through to the dubs QFs

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 13th of January 2025 07:27:09 AM

9vicman · Satellite level

Coup Droit wrote:
Brooke put up a good show, esepcially in the first set, but lost to the top seed, not too surprisingly
Hannah was playing her nemesis and SO nearly won the first set - but didn't - and SO closely won the second set - and then walked the third set :)

QF

(1) Jeline Vandromme (BEL) def. (Q) Brooke Black 6-4 6-1

(9) Hannah Klugman def. Mia Pohankova (SVK) 6-7(7) 7-6(8) 6-1

Hannah's match went on for 3h 23 mins

Hannah also has to play two doubles matches after that mammoth singles, but won both of them, playing with young Victoria Barros

Brooke and Flora lost their doubles 8-10 in the MTB :(
Conor+ lost too. As did Mark+.
But Oli is through to the dubs QFs

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 13th of January 2025 07:27:09 AM

That's a great win for Hannah. Pohankova had a couple of great women's results at the end of 2024, winning the W75 event in Bratislava.

DavidC · Tennis legend

In the semis Hannah plays Ksenia Efremova, who like Hannah is a highly touted 2009. Hannah won comfortably when they played at Les Petits As, and I cannot remember them playing each other since.

Girls SF

(9) Hannah Klugman v Ksenia Efremova (FRA)

simon381 · Lower Club Player

Hannah retired 6-5 down on serve. Hope she's OK. Maybe needs to save herself for the AO anyway.

indiana · Tennis legend

simon381 wrote:
Hannah retired 6-5 down on serve. Hope she's OK. Maybe needs to save herself for the AO anyway.

Hmm, I can't imagine it's positive for her Aus Open build up. But hope not significantly negative.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A real shame

And begs the question as to WHY play a 3h20 min singles match and then TWO doubles match in the same day

To paraphrase Nike, 'just say no' !

But, yes, hopefully aches and niggles and caution, rather than actual injury

However, Oliver Bonding has made the doubles final

9vicman · Satellite level

Coup Droit wrote:
A real shame

And begs the question as to WHY play a 3h20 min singles match and then TWO doubles match in the same day

To paraphrase Nike, 'just say no' !

But, yes, hopefully aches and niggles and caution, rather than actual injury

However, Oliver Bonding has made the doubles final

Even if not the reason, I can't see why she didn't pull out of the doubles. Not that I am a fan of ATP/WTA players pulling out of doubles if performing well in singles, but there would be justification here.

simon381 · Lower Club Player

She did pull out of the doubles QF too.