LTA Winter Grand Prix Masters - Roehampton

DavidC · Tennis legend

LTA Winter Grand Prix Masters - Roehampton

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Looking at past results over the last couple of months, it seems that Katie Gater doesn't lose very much in these events.

In fact she's only lost one set in her previous 11 matches in these. No wonder they've been looking at her for WCs in ITFs.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Full results for the under 18 Masters are now available via the above link. None of the seeded plyers reached the finals:

Boys final

Richard Gabb d. David O'Leary 4-6 7-6(8) 6-3

Girls final

Manisha Foster d. Katie Gater 6-4 6-2

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Is Richard Gabb related to Elisha Gabb?

Good to see a 1993 girl win through and Katie Gater continuing her form.

DavidC · Tennis legend

The second age group finals have been held this weekend: 12 & under. The full girls draw is here:

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=26745&draw=2

While the boys draw is here:

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=26745&draw=1

The finals were:

Boys

(3) Lucas Taylor (Middlesex) bt Jonathan Gray (Yorkshire) 6-2 6-1

Girls

(3) Freya Christie (Nottinghamshire) bt (1) Kyra Akinnibi (Surrey) 2-6 6-0 6-3

One local paper has dubbed Lucas Taylor as " the East End's answer to Tim Henman", so no pressure there then!

DavidC · Tennis legend

The 14&U Masters took place this weekend with a strong field, including all of the squads who have reached the finals of the TE Winter Cup. Evan Hoyt and Dasha Konotoptseva were early casualties, but otherwise the seeds progressed to the later stages, with the top seeds winning.

Boy's Singles Final:

(1) Luke Bambridge (Notts) bt (3) Christopher Pearce (Bucks) 6-4 6-7 (7-9) 7-5

Girl's Singles Final:

(1) Katy Dunne (Herts) bt (2) Pippa Horn (Norfolk) 6-2 3-6 6-3

Girls Draw

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=26591&draw=1

Boys Draw

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=26591&draw=2

DavidC · Tennis legend

This weekend saw the 4th of the Grand Prix Masters - the new 11 & under

Girls singles final

(1) Lila Simpson d. (2) Alexandra Herd 3-6 6-3 6-1

There's an interview/video of Lila (and Laura Robson) taken at Wimbledon last year here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7484010.stm

Full draw

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=27025&draw=2

Boys singles final

(2) Jay Clarke d. (1) Marcus Walters 6-4 6-1

Full draw

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=27025&draw=1

tenniscynic · Social player

Well done Lila - saw her demonstrate at Wimbledon last year. To me she looks really "sweet" but having seen Laura aged nine would suggest that there is quite a difference between the two - not least physically.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good to see these names pop-up once every now and again

DavidC · Tennis legend

The final Winter Grand Prix Masters took place this weekend - the 16 & under, with the following results:

Boys Singles

Final:

(2) James Hignett (Wales) bt (3) Josh Poullet (Notts) 6-2 6-4

James reached the semis of an ITF U18 event recently partnering Liam Broady

Full draw

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=BAE5CF33-F9E1-4779-B378-7B205992AF8C&draw=2

Girls Singles

Final:

(2) Hannah Martin-Merchant (Oxford) bt (3) Joanna Henderson (Scot) 4-6 6-3 6-1

Hannah is ranked inside 400 at ITF level, and is about to play her first ITF event for 5 months.

Full draw

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=BAE5CF33-F9E1-4779-B378-7B205992AF8C&draw=1

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good to see a welsh win on St.Davids day

tennisfan84 · Junior player

No relation between Richard & Elisha Gabb as far as I'm aware. They're from different parts of the country

Shush · Improver

Mervatron wrote:

Good to see a welsh win on St.Davids day

James Hignett is English, the family are living in South Wales cus of the dads work. I asked them what they think of Wales and their reply isn't printable! lets just say they have lived in better places!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Well he now looses my support.

love the game · Newbie

i think hes definately more welsh than english, hes represented wales in the past and hes also part of our south wales mens team now!!! maybe the family were having a bad day when you spoke to them.