The significance of this event is that the all the finalists win a place at the Wimbledon under 14 invitational The boys draw is here, featuring our top two TE ranked boys Liam Sharkey and Oskar Laskowski, but no sign of Fred Fabricius
The girls draw is here, featuring two of our top four TE ranked girls Ginny Chen and Isabella Rebel, but missing Dasha Jones (who is on the list for the Raynes Park qualifier in 2 weeks time) and April Sackflame (playing ITFs in Sweden)
Bella comfortably saw off Mika's sister, and there were straight set wins for the other top 2 seeds, Liam, Oskar and Ginny. Bella is in the same quarter as Coco Witton, who was highlighted in another thread by Rose
Top seed Ginny Chen was upset today by Evie Pritchard amidst carnage for the seeded girls. The boys seeds are largely intact though, joined possibly by Fraser Newcombe, who combines two great Aussie stars of a bygone age.
Boys QF
(1) Liam Sharkey v Maxim Sokol
Jonah Harmer v (8) Cameron Rae
(7) Caleb Griffith or Fraser Newcombe v (3) Max Hodkinson
(5) Will Morgan v (2) Oskar Laskowski
Girls QF
Evie Pritchard v (Q) Darcey Osborne
Iris Grosso v (6) Nishta Kesavan
(Q) Beatrice Robson v Naina Kapoor
Coco Witton v (2) Isabella Rebel
Top seed Ginny Chen was upset today by Evie Pritchard amidst carnage for the seeded girls. The boys seeds are largely intact though, joined possibly by Fraser Newcombe, who combines two great Aussie stars of a bygone age.
Boys QF
(1) Liam Sharkey v Maxim Sokol Jonah Harmer v (8) Cameron Rae (7) Caleb Griffith or Fraser Newcombe v (3) Max Hodkinson (5) Will Morgan v (2) Oskar Laskowski
Girls QF
Evie Pritchard v (Q) Darcey Osborne Iris Grosso v (6) Nishta Kesavan (Q) Beatrice Robson v Naina Kapoor Coco Witton v (2) Isabella Rebel
But, yes, that's a bit of a bloodbath for the seeds
And - hopefully - will give the bods pause for reflection
Ginnys another one that was recognised and invested in early and put on a bit of a pedestal. Is still good but is another Sevil. Was always going to be overtaken. Evie trains at Nottingham with Coco and there is a constant friendly rivalry between them. Evie is more inconsistent but when shes on it has a great aggressive game. Both her and Coco are working towards national academy places ( I believe Kaya is on track too) Nottingham RPDC have got some very good players coming through
(1) Liam Sharkey d. Maxim Sokol 6-2 6-2
Jonah Harmer d. (8) Cameron Rae 4-6 6-1 7-5
(7) Caleb Griffith d. (3) Max Hodkinson 6-2 6-1
(2) Oskar Laskowski d. (5) Will Morgan 6-2 6-0
Liam, Oskar, Nishta and Bella book their Wimbledon places. Nishta is a new name to me, but she has been very consistent winning seven 6-2 sets and one 6-1
Boys SF
(1) Liam Sharkey d. Jonah Harmer 6-0 6-4
(2) Oskar Laskowski d. (7) Caleb Griffith 6-1 6-2
F
(1) Liam Sharkey v (2) Oskar Laskowski
Girls SF
(6) Nishta Kesavan d. (Q) Darcey Osborne 6-2 6-2
(2) Isabella Rebel d. (Q) Beatrice Robson 6-3 7-5