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paulisi · Tennis legend

boys & girls J30 Liverpool-hard-indoor-week-45

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Girls

The Loughborough academy is well represented here, with Grace and April and Milica

Wildcards have gone to:

Mila Angrave, our 4th best 2012-born player

Naina Kapoor, our 5th best 2012-er

Macy George (age 14) and unranked,

And Isabella Rebel, another 2012-er but also unranked

LL spots to Elizabeth Rimmer and an Irish girl

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Boys

Niall P-Barua from the Loughborough academy is also playing here, as top seed

Brandon R is 2nd seed

Wildcards to Boyan Ilchev, Charlie Woods and Ryan Szeto,

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

GIRLS

Some interesting results here

Lola House beat the French 6th seed very easily (although Lola is 17, the French girl being 14)

Elizabeth Prangley has also beaten the 4th seed from Estonia

Young Mila Angrave (see above) won her match against the Norwegian girl, 1 and 0

Young Naina Kapoor (also above) beat the 3rd seed, Sophie Johnstone

Papaya Douvall also beat the Ghanian player

Rose · Lower Club Player

Lola is 18 in a couple of months - early 2008 player. Not a stand out at all in my opinion but moves well and is getting some nice results. Wants to go to American uni so is focusing on ITFs.

The standout result to me is Naina beating Sophie. Sophie is very inconsistent but won the 18U national grade 2 yesterday and has been playing very well. Maybe tired today. However, Adaugo who won the 16U national G2 yesterday still got a good result today

That was an impressive score for Grace too against Jess Morrison (who has been an LTA pick for years, invited to the training camps abroad and receiving funding)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The GB girls have done a great job

5 'peskies' eliminated, leaving the top half of the draw as 100% British

And only 2 'pesky' wins, in the lower half

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Boys

Max Williams beat the LL from Germany

But the three other foreign lads won

In terms of seeds, Niall won

But 2nd seed Brandon lost (to Olivier Domagalski)

Best result though, probably, was young Ryan Szeto who beat the 3rd seed, Jaydan Mitchell

14 year-old Dominic Czopek ( a new name to me) also had a great start, beating the 5th seed, Josh Wright, in two sets

paulisi · Tennis legend

Not there this week, but hopefully can manage a couple of days next week.

QF
Niall Pickard-Barua v Jan Janda
Henry Redfearn v Harrison Mcelnea
Kacpar Laskowski v Lucas Nolte
Maximillian Williams v French qualifier

QF
Mila Angrave v Celine Ricaud
Naina Kapoor v Isabella Barrett-Campbell
Adaugo Nwogu v Millica Milojevic
Gabby Read v Grace Watson

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

So, the BIG result in the girls yesterday was the young Mila Angrave (2012) thrashed April Sackflame (2012) who is top seed, at the elite academy a year early and the talk of the town

Rose (or anyone else), do you know anything about Mila? I see she's at Edgbaston but that's about all

Adaugo Nwogu's win over Judy Zhang is also noteworthy and confirms the good results she's been having

The boys followed the seeding pretty much

Two draws - 16 players - and only one foreign player - we've got this wrapped up GB

Rose · Lower Club Player

Mila is 2012 born and has quietly been having some good results. Won the Babolat cup last year and got through qualifying in last months J60 beating some quite good older players on the way.

Has been one of the LTAs selected players for 14U on the RPDC long list (funded to train at an RPDC) but have never heard her name mentioned as a long term prospect getting funding after next year

April beat her 3&1 this summer so was really surprised at that result.

Ive only seen Mila play once and she played very high and loopy a lot of the time. Put players off their stride rather than hitting loads of winners. Inconsistent too

However that was a while ago so may have changed considerably.

Adaugo is a very good mover and hits a nice ball. Judy beat her quite comfortably in the summer though so again was a bit of a surprising turn around. Adagio is coming off a great win though from the 16U G2 (some good, although not top, players in there) and has done well all year

paulisi · Tennis legend

Anyone at TE worth keeping an eye on?
There is a chance i may get to see the finals on Sat.

te.tournamentsoftware.com/tournament/f4b8829f-c3c7-4aea-a2b1-cd57670caaee/Matches

I've seen quite a few players come through TE here, from Mimi Xu and Isabelle Lacey to more recently April Sackflame and Grace Watson.

Rose · Lower Club Player

Sophia

Olivia (although is coming back from injury)

Coco

Nishta

(Emma Fu also highly thought of by LTA but Im on the fence with her)

Oskar

Tony

paulisi · Tennis legend

SF
Niall v Harrison
Kacper v Max

Celine v Isabella
Millica v Grace

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Rose wrote:
Sophia
Olivia (although is coming back from injury)
Coco
Nishta
(Emma Fu also highly thought of by LTA but Im on the fence with her)

Oskar
Tony

In the girls, Coco beat Emma

I'm with you, Rose, on the fence - my very initial notes about Emma from a year or two back say:

"looks very taught. Still not technically great. Not as athletic as Id expected"

whereas for Coco, I've got:

"tight, nice, correct game".

Ingrid Dumitru posted a 0 & 0 result over the 5th seed today

She's been on my list to try and see live / livestream

Olivia Gaugry (a new name to me) also beat a seeded player very easily

paulisi · Tennis legend

Niall v Max
Celine v Grace

Just stuck my head in - so based on memory.
Doubles still going