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Gemma Heath

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#1 ·
14 yo Gemma (born Aug 12, 2001) is looking fairly promising! :D She started tennis at 5, she's based at the Sutton Academy in London. :)

I think I really started to pay attention to her when I saw she beat Maja Chwalinska, who is a very promising 2001 girl, in a Belgian G4 last Nov.

She's started this year in a pretty good fashion, making 2 finals back-to-back these past 2 weeks, after a more disappointing couple of tournaments in the UAE in January!
- last week, she made the final of G4 ITF Gjovik Porsche Open in Norway: she was the 5th seed, beat Ida Ferding 3-6 6-3 6-4 in R1, Mathilde Tranberg 3 & 4 in R2, (WC)Sarina Reinertsen 0 & 1 in QF, and Helene Pellicano (who upset top seed Brune Olsen in R2) 6-3 7-6(4) in SF, lost to 2000 born 3rd seed Olga Helmi (#352) in the final, 3-6 6-3 6-7(3) :sobbing: :hug:
- this week, she made the final of G4 ITF Kramfors High Coast Junior World Ranking Tournament in Sweden: she was the 2nd seed, beat (Q)Veronika Pepelyaeva 2 & 2 in R1, Basak Akbas 6-1 7-5 in R2, Ida Ferding again in QF, 3 & 2 :devil:, and 4th seed Kristina Kislyak 2 & 3 in SF, before losing to 2000 born fellow Brit Nell Miller in the final with another heartbreaking scoreline - 6-1 6-7(2) 1-6 :sobbing: :tears: :hug:

Last year, she won 2 titles in singles: Cat. 3 G14 Nike Junior International Nottingham in April, where she was the top seed, beat unseeded Erin Richardson 7-5 6-1 in the final :yeah: (she only dropped a set in 5 matches, it was in SF against 4th seed Sasha Hill ;)); her next tournament was G5 Nike Junior International Edinburgh in July, and she won it?.. her first U18 singles trophy! :D She was in thanks to a MDWC, started off by upsetting 2nd seed Camille Verden Anderson in R1, 2-6 6-3 6-3, then she beat Olivia Elliott 2 & 0 in R2, 5th seed Lenka Stara 4 & 3 in QF, Juliette Colard 1 & 3 in SF, and top seed Megan Davies (1999 born, #408 at that moment) 3 & 1 in the final. :rocker2: :worship: :cool:

Hopefully Gemma has a great 2016! She's already beating a lot of girls older than her, some who are pretty good, and she's also making it close against tougher and older girls.
I'm pretty excited to see how she develops and how she does as she moves up the rankings and gets to play stronger tournaments. :bounce: She could manage to get her ranking high enough to play the USO, would be awesome!

She's broken into the Top 400 for the first time this week, reaching a new CHR of 341 (+60). :D
Looks like next week she'll very probably make her Top 300 debuts (she won the title in dubs with Swedish partner Molly Helgesson this week, so she'll get more points)! :bounce:
She got her very 1st ranking (of 1042 :awww:) last July the week after her triumph in Edimburgh, she's been climbing up quick! :yeah:


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#2 ·
Dubs winner, with Molly Helgesson from Sweden :hearts: they were the 2nd seeds, beat unseeded La Rocca/Pepelyaeva in the final, 6-3 5-7 [10-8] :yeah:




She won the U14 British Nationals last year, which is great!






Summer Cup 2015































2014 :awww:

 
#13 ·
This weekend Gemma was taking part in the Aegon Winter County Cup at Bath University as part of the Surrey team. Unfortunately it looks like she may have got injured in her singles match against Mollie Crouch (presumably it's listed the score as 1-6 in the 2nd but the set didn't finish).

British Tennis - Aegon Winter County Cup 2016 - Mens and Ladies Group 1 - Matches

Here is Team Surrey.



Top row: Mandy Spicer (Team Captain), Laura Peterzan, Melanie South, Natasha Starling, Laura Slater
Bottom row: Lily Ghodrati, Gemma Heath, Camille Verden-Anderson, Emily Appleton
 
#15 · (Edited)
She's very pretty. I thought she was maybe a couple of years older than she actually is when I first saw her though.

This is her with I think her older sister.


She's hovering just outside Top 300 at the moment, similar to a few of the other British girls. I'm hoping she can make some progress beyond Grade 4s next year and push that ranking up a bit.
 
#23 ·
Lost to 6th seed Akanksha Bhan 3-6 2-6. Bhan is ranked about 75 places above Gemma, but I did think Gemma might have been able to get into this.

In better news...

Doubles QF: Adeshina/Heath def. [3] Karimjanova/Mareen 7-5 6-2

Their SF opponents knocked out the top seeds but also got bagelled in the process so seems to me the Brits might have a good chance in the next round.
 
#25 ·
F: [4] Lee/Sawangkaew def. Adeshina/Heath 3-6 6-3 10-5

Looks close but they couldn't keep up the good start. Great week, for doubles anyway.

Gemma is at a career high of #273 with the 1998 players coming off the rankings. Doubles success is good but the real points are in singles. All her best results are in G4s so she needs to start hopefully making a mark in G3 and above.

She's in for the India G2 next week in New Delhi.
 
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