Boys & Girls: 2025 Australian Open, hard (Week 4)

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Boys & Girls: 2025 Australian Open, hard (Week 4)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:
Day 1 complete

Boys R1 (L64)

Karim Bennani (MAR) d. (Q) Mark Ceban 6-4 6-4
(6) Oliver Bonding v Kuan-Shou Chen (TPE)

Girls R1 (L64)

(9) Mingge Xu d. (WC) Ava Beck (AUS) 6-1 6-2
(Q) Brooke Black v Laima Vladson (LTU)
(14) Hannah Klugman v Nellie Taraba Wallberg (SWE)
(SE) Anamaria Federica Oana (ROU) d. (2) Mika Stojsavljevic 2-6 6-3 6-2

Brooke got a good three set win today, and Hannah won in two sets, 1 and 1.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:
Boys Doubles R1 (L32)

(1) Bonding/Leach (GBR/USA) v Alexandrescou/Behrmann (ROU/AUT)
Djosic/Hede (SUI/SWE) v Brady/Kennedy (GBR/USA)
Bilozertsev/Ceban (UKR/GBR) v (4) Kouame/Santamaria Roig (FRA/ESP)

Girls Doubles R1 (L32)

(1) Sonobe/Stojsavljevic (JPN/GBR) v Efremova/Nilsson (FRA/SWE)
(7) Barros/Kostovic (BRA/SRB) v Black/Xu
Dilek/Zeltina (TUR/LAT) v (2) Jones/Klugman (AUS/GBR)

Mark went down in the doubles today, his Aussie Open over.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
DavidC wrote:
Day 1 complete

Boys R1 (L64)

Karim Bennani (MAR) d. (Q) Mark Ceban 6-4 6-4
(6) Oliver Bonding v Kuan-Shou Chen (TPE)

Girls R1 (L64)

(9) Mingge Xu d. (WC) Ava Beck (AUS) 6-1 6-2
(Q) Brooke Black v Laima Vladson (LTU)
(14) Hannah Klugman v Nellie Taraba Wallberg (SWE)
(SE) Anamaria Federica Oana (ROU) d. (2) Mika Stojsavljevic 2-6 6-3 6-2
Brooke got a good three set win today, and Hannah won in two sets, 1 and 1.

Oli retired 3rd set and that is the boys singles over- not sure whether that puts him out of doubles also?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Excellent win for Brooke, over a player over 50 places higher than her

Continuing the excellent run of last week

Looking forward to watching the replay of that match

And SO impressed that Hannah won 6-1 6-1

She won against the girl last week too - but with a lot of difficulty (in the first set especially)

And it was very hot out there and Hannah is not a fan of the heat

She also was really holding the ship together in the doubles from what I could see, in the second set in particular

Hope Oli's OK - again, will catch up on that match later today to see what happened

Var · Satellite level

Coup Droit wrote:
Excellent win for Brooke, over a player over 50 places higher than her

Continuing the excellent run of last week

Looking forward to watching the replay of that match

And SO impressed that Hannah won 6-1 6-1

She won against the girl last week too - but with a lot of difficulty (in the first set especially)

And it was very hot out there and Hannah is not a fan of the heat

She also was really holding the ship together in the doubles from what I could see, in the second set in particular

Hope Oli's OK - again, will catch up on that match later today to see what happened

Also Mimi and Brooke won in the doubles 6-4, 6-4.

9vicman · Satellite level

So impressed by Brooke Black's improvement at this level. With all the young guns, she's been flying under the radar. I don't know anything about her background, but seems a prime candidate for the college route.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
So impressed by Brooke Black's improvement at this level. With all the young guns, she's been flying under the radar. I don't know anything about her background, but seems a prime candidate for the college route.

I don't think her parents had been planning on the college route

Her dad is Wayne Black; Cara Black is obviosuly then her aunt - and dad is married to Caras former doubles partner, Kazakhstan-born Irina Selyutina, who is Brooke's mum

It's a huge tennis family background biggrin

And young Brooke has been trained to be a top tennis player, it's the clearly state goal

And, yes, it's great to see some really noteworthy results - she's always had a very strong technique (the training shows). And last year when I saw her in the British Tour event, I wrote that the thing that stood out more was her footwork - it's partly training, partly athleticism, but she really does dynamic footwork for each and every shot - it takes a lot of rigour to make yourself do that.

However, she had problems getting any real damage on her shots, she'd construct good points but be scared to really finish them off or try to do so and make errors

Am looking forward to watching some of today's match on replay

DavidC · Tennis legend

Skimming through the matches I noted that Oli appeared to struggle with a foot injury from midway through his match, and was struggling to serve by the end. I fear he will not make it for his doubles. Hannah was challenged early on, but having come through that pulled away comfortably (though needing 6 matchpoints to seal the win). Brooke was under pressure on serve from the weight of the Lithuanian's return, but countered well from behind her baseline, with some good redirects to exploit her opponents weaker movement.

Boys R1 (L64)

Karim Bennani (MAR) d. (Q) Mark Ceban 6-4 6-4
Kuan-Shou Chen (TPE) d. (6) Oliver Bonding 6-7(8) 6-3 4-1 rtd

Girls R1 (L64)

(9) Mingge Xu d. (WC) Ava Beck (AUS) 6-1 6-2
(Q) Brooke Black d. Laima Vladson (LTU) 4-6 6-3 6-1
(14) Hannah Klugman d. Nellie Taraba Wallberg (SWE) 6-1 6-1
(SE) Anamaria Federica Oana (ROU) d. (2) Mika Stojsavljevic 2-6 6-3 6-2

R2

(9) Mingge Xu v Diana-Ioana Simoniescu (ROU)
(Q) Brooke Black v (7) Tereza Krejcova (CZE)
(14) Hannah Klugman v Maia Ilinca Burcescu (ROU)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys Doubles R1 (L32)

(1) Bonding/Leach (GBR/USA) v Alexandrescou/Behrmann (ROU/AUT)
Djosic/Hede (SUI/SWE) d. Brady/Kennedy (GBR/USA) 7-5 6-4
(4) Kouame/Santamaria Roig (FRA/ESP) d. Bilozertsev/Ceban (UKR/GBR) 7-5 6-3

Girls Doubles R1 (L32)

(1) Sonobe/Stojsavljevic (JPN/GBR) v Efremova/Nilsson (FRA/SWE)
Black/Xu d. (7) Barros/Kostovic (BRA/SRB) 6-4 6-4
(2) Jones/Klugman (AUS/GBR) d. Dilek/Zeltina (TUR/LAT) 7-6(8) 6-3

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
So impressed by Brooke Black's improvement at this level. With all the young guns, she's been flying under the radar. I don't know anything about her background, but seems a prime candidate for the college route.

Brookes dad is wayne Black, a well known Zimbabwe tour player from the family that included Byron and Cara. Her mum was Irina Selyutina (from memory, may have spelling or name wrong) who also played the WTA tour

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
9vicman wrote:
So impressed by Brooke Black's improvement at this level. With all the young guns, she's been flying under the radar. I don't know anything about her background, but seems a prime candidate for the college route.
Brookes dad is wayne Black, a well known Zimbabwe tour player from the family that included Byron and Cara. Her mum was Irina Selyutina (from memory, may have spelling or name wrong) who also played the WTA tour

And Irina had been Caras doubles partner on the tour as well, to keep it all nice and close - Wayne won the AO and USO mens doubles back in the early 2000s

DavidC · Tennis legend

Mimi opens up on court 6 at midnight GMT. Only the top and bottom quarters are scheduled for tomorrow, so Hannah/Brooke will be scheduled for Tuesday.

Var · Satellite level

Do we have an individual player thread for Brooke? I cant seem to find one?

-- Edited by Var on Sunday 19th of January 2025 01:02:34 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

My search function doesn't seem to work any longer but I don't remember having one - go ahead ! (If there is another one somewhere, a mod can merge it)