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Sofya Lansere ? ~Princesse Sophie de Lanceray~

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Sorry, I can't resist my wanting to create a thread for her, so here it is! :D A sweet, lovely and pretty talented tall Russian girl with an actual French surname (Lanceray, transcribed into Лансерé in Cyrillic - to fit as much as possible to the original pronunciation of the name -, then just retranscribed letter by letter in Latin alphabet as Lansere, which is sort of mistake), I could not possibly not love her :inlove: Actually, she's one of my very favourite Russian juniors (outside of the Holy Potapovushkina Trinity, + Vladka and Blinky), with Trescheva, Kulikova, Mini Mak, Krupchenko and Pepelyaeva basically.

Sonya is 15, she was born on Sept 29, 2000 in Moscow and she still lives in Moscow; her listed coaches are Vera Miklashevskaya and Andrey Averin, but that info may be outdated. ;)
More importantly :)angel:), she's very close to Potapova, Pachkaleva, Mini Mak, Rakhimova, and a few other cool girls from the Moscow Tennis Mafia (Pervushina, Pospelova...). :hearts:

Speaking about her game, she's very tall, definitely one of the tallest Russian juniors and that's a nice asset; from the little footage I managed to catch I thought she had a nice and pretty smooth, pleasing to the eye game, but a bit lightweight (it was over a year ago when I last watched her play though, she's probably significantly improved in that department already) and she's clearly not the overoptimistic hyperactive type on court attitude-wise (and that is personally not a turn-off at all :hearts:). ;)

As for her actual results: she's currently ranked #216, very close to her CHR of 197 reached at the end of last December. :)

Last year, she won 1 singles title: G4 TSZ Cup in Togliatti, where she beat Taisya Pachkaleva 4 & 2 in the final. :yeah:
Apart from that, she's made quite a few deep runs to SFs - at G5 Tbilisi Cup, at G3 Fergana Cup, at G3 Samara Cup, and at G3 Marshall Open in Honour of Danny Gelley. :) The interesting thing I've noticed is that when a girl beats her once, she generally beats her the next time, or if not, the time after. That's always nice not to be a pigeon already in your junior days. :p We'll see if this tendency holds on in the next future and it's daily challengeing... ;)

This year, she's played 2 tournaments only so far:

- G1 RPM Junior Open in Prague in Jan: she beat Iulia Maria Ivascu 7-5 6-4 in R1, lost to 12th seed and eventual SFist Irina Cantos Siemers (#138) in R2, 4 & 3 :hug:

- G1 Yeltsin Cup in Kazan this week: seeded 16, she had a bye in R1, beat Varvara Kuksina 3-6 6-4 6-4 in R2, lost to top seed Olesya Pervushina (#13) in R3, 3 & 1 :hug:


Good luck Sonya in 2016! :hearts: Hopefully she'll keep slowly but steadily improving and I'd really love her to get well enough ranked to get to play her first Slam(s) this year! :armed: :cheer:

PS: Her surname is quite familiar in the Russian artistic sphere, there are a few Lansere artists (the most famous was part of the Mir Isskustvo movement), and obviously they're from the same family, but I wonder how cloesly she's related to them? :hearts:
 
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Sonya played G2 Tashkent ITF Juniors this week. She beat (WC)Dariya Detkovskaya 3 & 3 in R1, but lost 6-4 3-6 3-6 to (2)Amina Anshba (#87, WTA 688) in R2 :sad: :hug:

I like Amina but I'm sad she lost this match, she's lost quite a few close matches against good players and it's probably affecting her self-confidence (she's not really the most self-confident girl :awww:) and I hope she doesn't feel to disheartened. Hopefully she'll start winning some of these matches this year, and it could really propel her progression :smooch: :cheer:
 
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Sonya lost 4-6 5-7 to local scrub (WC)Laylo Bahodyrova in R1 of G3 Namangan International Junior Tournament today, wtf :tape: :weirdo:

I'm naming today the official WTAF day :eek:
 
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Sonya made the doubles final of G2 Ozerov Cup in Ryazan 2 weeks ago with Sonya Trescheva! :D They were the 3rd seeds, beat 2nd seeds Alexandrova/Deminova 2-6 7-6(4) [10-5] in SF, lost 3-65-7 to 4th seeds Kharitonova/Nazarkina in the final.
In singles she reached the QFs, her only QF appearance so far this year. She was the 6th seed, had a bye in R1, beat Anastasia Veselova 3-6 6-1 6-4 in R2 and qualifier Daria Afanasyeva 4 & 4 in R3, lost to top seed and eventual champion Varvara Gracheva (#58) 4 & 2 in QF.
 
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Sonya reached the doubles final of the U19 Russian Champs last week, with Kamilla Rakhimova. :) They lost to P.Golubovskaya/Skryabina 6-2 3-6 [5-10] in the final :awww: :hug:








 
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Sonya won the U17 Russian Championships in doubles with Kamilla Rakhimova :D :hearts: They beat Gracheva/Solnyshkina 0-6 6-4 [10-7] in the final :scared: :yeah:






Umpire Sonya :bigclap: :inlove:










 
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Congrats to Sonya on a great last week: she made the final of G2 TC Bakkum Dutch Junior Open, beating Fernanda Labrana 6-3 7-6(1) in R1, 2nd seed Naho Sato (who was at a CHR of 94) 5-7 6-3 6-1 in R2, WC Zoe Kruger 4 & 2 in QF, and Lisa Picinetti (who thrashed 4th seed Kuczer in R1) 2 & 4 in SF! :clap2:
She lost to top seed Ayumi Miyamoto (Top 50) 4 & 1 in the final :awww: :hug:

Good stuff! :D This was her 2nd U18 singles final only, and the biggest by far (she won a G4 in Russia last year). This is the deep run she needed to launch her year :hearts: MOOOIINN! :cheer:
 
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Awww, Sonya drew Karolina Berankova in R1 of G2 Pilsen Wilson Cup this week, which is a shame because Kaja is very underranked (she's #184 but her level is more Top 75) and she's a virtual top seed in this draw of overranked scrubs. :( She lost 4 & 4 to her today, which is not too bad :yeah: :hug:

She still has the doubles, with Sonya Trescheva this time :hearts: Moooiinn! :cheer::cheer:
 
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She still has the doubles, with Sonya Trescheva this time :hearts: Moooiinn! :cheer::cheer:
They made the final! :awww: Beat 4th seeds Nagata/N.Sato 4-6 7-6(4) [10-5] in QF, and top seeds Kuczer/Viviani 6-2 1-6 [10-7] in SF :yeah: lost to 3rd seeds Miyamoto/H.Sato 6-7(4) 7-5 [4-10] in the final :sad: :hug:


 
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