In honour of today's Cat 1 TE final in Maia, a thread for the girls born in the year 2000: finalists Eliz Maloney and Francesca Jones, plus Ali Collins, Maria Budin, etc.
Scotland's Alexandra Hunter is in the final of the Nike Junior International grade 3 u14 event in Nottingham. In the final she faces Japan's Himari Sato, who's only 12, born in 2002 .
Our U12 team, consisting of Indianna Spink, Emma Raducanu, and Holly Fischer, is one of eight teams to make it through to the final rounds of the Tennis Europe Nations Challenge in two weeks time. This is particularly impressive, seeing as all three of our girls are only 11 years old, with Spink and Raducanu born toward the end of 2002, and Fischer born in 2003. I know this isn't necessarily the right thread to post about these girls, but I didn't want to start another thread.
Francesca Jones has made the doubles final with her Portuguese partner at a G4 ITF tournament in Portugal. They're facing a WC Portuguese pairing in the final.
Francesca won her first round of singles before losing the next in a third set tie-break to 3rd seed Valeria GORLATS 7-6(5) 3-6 6-7(6). Good to see her trying her hand at ITFs though.
Not sure how she got in, she's no where in the race rankings. Then again, I'm not sure why she's nowhere in the race rankings, as she's 6th in the real rankings. Anyhow, here we are.
The tennis Europe rankings are a bit confusing. Since she is still U14, points from all tennis Europe tournaments, including U16, count toward the U14 ranking. However, for the masters ranking, they only count U14 results. This proved to hurt her masters ranking, seeing as she earned quite a few points from U16 tournaments.
Thanks for the explanation, makes a bit more sense now. Good win but I smell an upset given how long Potapova's match was and that the last I heard was she was in hospital.
Won her first match 60 64. Top seed Anastasia Potapova next. A 13 year old with an extremely impressive resume already, but struggled through her first round. Pull off the upset Francesca!
That was always going to be tough. Still, no reason she can't win her 3rd place play-off and cap off a very successful year on the Tennis Europe circuit.
I have no idea what the significance of that photo was, I assumed without checking they'd won the doubles together here, but there was no doubles. (They have partnered at least once in the past, though.)
Anyhow, Fran came third after beating Cadar 6-4 in the third.
I have no idea what the significance of that photo was, I assumed without checking they'd won the doubles together here, but there was no doubles. (They have partnered at least once in the past, though.)
That's because they've played quite a few times together in dubs, and rather successfully.
Looks like Fran got surgery
"First backhands after the operation today. 2 months without hitting it ! Started serving 2 days ago ?✌?hoy he empezado a jugar de revés a dos manos después de un tiempo largo, casi 2 meses. Hace 2 días que empece a sacar. Vamossss coño"