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

DF · Tennis legend

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

paulisi · Tennis legend

I saw a bit of Oli Bonding's match up towards the end of the second set and I didn't see an obvious injury.
Oli was just making a lot of unforced errors.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I watched Brooke's match, as well as Hannah's

Brooke's opponent has a major MTO for heat problems - at 4-3 in the first set, which seemed a little strange

Doctors and everything.

But, of course, it was very hot - and one of the ball kids passed out on another court

Brooke did very well though not to be thrown by it - she was 4-3 up and then lost the next 3 games after the MTO - BUT then held strong in the second, didn't get upset, or feel cheated or whatever, and made life tough for the other girl who hit a heavier ball than Brooke but didn't move that well and the heat was sapping her energy for micro-footwork which showed in her shot making.

Very cool headed, I thought

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

If Brooke and Mimi and Hannah/Emerson Jones win their next doubles matches, theyd play in the last 8. That would be interesting. Mimi and Emerson are also possible singles qf opponents

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A two-set win for Mimi

And Oli+ won their doubles

And Mika+ won their doubles too

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 20th of January 2025 07:34:38 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
A two-set win for Mimi

And Oli+ won their doubles
And Mika+ won their doubles too

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 20th of January 2025 07:34:38 AM

And the 5th seed she might have played next retired leaving her with an unseeded opponent in the last 16

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, although Tagger is a very good up-and-coming player
One of the very very few with a one-handed backhand
As good as most of the seeded players

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Yes, although Tagger is a very good up-and-coming player
One of the very very few with a one-handed backhand
As good as most of the seeded players

Cool and good to hear one of the girls with a single hander - I dont follow at all closely, but would struggle to name a womens player with a single hander let alone a junior.

Var · Satellite level

JonH comes home wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Yes, although Tagger is a very good up-and-coming player
One of the very very few with a one-handed backhand
As good as most of the seeded players
Cool and good to hear one of the girls with a single hander - I dont follow at all closely, but would struggle to name a womens player with a single hander let alone a junior.

Justine Henin, that was an absolutely beautiful back hand! Miss that.

Jan · Hall of fame

Var wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Yes, although Tagger is a very good up-and-coming player
One of the very very few with a one-handed backhand
As good as most of the seeded players
Cool and good to hear one of the girls with a single hander - I dont follow at all closely, but would struggle to name a womens player with a single hander let alone a junior.
Justine Henin, that was an absolutely beautiful back hand! Miss that.

Agreed! I just loved watching it.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Var wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Yes, although Tagger is a very good up-and-coming player
One of the very very few with a one-handed backhand
As good as most of the seeded players
Cool and good to hear one of the girls with a single hander - I dont follow at all closely, but would struggle to name a womens player with a single hander let alone a junior.
Justine Henin, that was an absolutely beautiful back hand! Miss that.

Indeed yes, agreed , is there any player currently on tour though?

Var · Satellite level

JonH comes home wrote:
Var wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Yes, although Tagger is a very good up-and-coming player
One of the very very few with a one-handed backhand
As good as most of the seeded players
Cool and good to hear one of the girls with a single hander - I dont follow at all closely, but would struggle to name a womens player with a single hander let alone a junior.
Justine Henin, that was an absolutely beautiful back hand! Miss that.
Indeed yes, agreed , is there any player currently on tour though?

Not all the time, seen quite a few throw in a backhand slice. Especially Mimi. Theres a still on her Insta feed from last September but I couldnt copy it across.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Diane Parry is probably the best ranked one-handed backhand player that I can think of (about WR 60 ?)

And Golubic plays one too

Oh, and the really chippy choppy German player, Maria (but that's not quite like the others who play proper top-spin one handers)

(I think all the players have a one-handed slice - some use it more than others but they all play them in every match)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Diane Parry is probably the best ranked one-handed backhand player that I can think of (about WR 60 ?)

And Golubic plays one too

Oh, and the really chippy choppy German player, Maria (but that's not quite like the others who play proper top-spin one handers)

(I think all the players have a one-handed slice - some use it more than others but they all play them in every match)

To be fair, its almost as rare in the mens as well.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Hannah and Brooke are both on at midnight GMT, with Hannah on the 1573 Arena. Pleased to note that Oli's foot injury wasn't as serious as it appeared.

Girls R2

(9) Mingge Xu d. Diana-Ioana Simoniescu (ROU) 7-6(3) 6-2

Doubles R1 (L32)

(1) Sonobe/Stojsavljevic (JPN/GBR) d. Efremova/Nilsson (FRA/SWE) 6-1 6-2

R2

(1) Sonobe/Stojsavljevic (JPN/GBR) v Iyengar/ Perapekhina (USA/***)
Black/Xu v Wang/Yodpetch (CHN/THA)
Pohankova/Vandromme (SVK/BEL) v (2) Jones/Klugman (AUS/GBR)

Boys Doubles R1 (L32)

(1) Bonding/Leach (GBR/USA) d. Alexandrescou/Behrmann (ROU/AUT) 6-4 6-4

R2

(1) Bonding/Leach (GBR/USA) v Chen/Kim (TPE/KOR)