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DavidC


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Last year Laura Robson, Jessica Ren and Joanna Henderson steered GBR to the 14 & U finals for only the second time in the tournament's 28 year history. This year's team trying to reach the final 8 (in 2 weeks time) are:

Katy Dunne
Beth Askew
Pippa Horn

Their opening match on Friday is against Sweden

They are in Rakovnik (Czech Republic) whilst the 16 & U team in Zutphen (Netherlands) is

Jessica Ren
Lucy Brown
Manisha Foster

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U16's begin with victory over Poland (who were seeded 2nd)

Lucy Brown lost to Barbara Luz 6-7 5-7
Jessica Ren def Patricia Martina 6-0 6-2
Foster/Ren def Martina/Luz 6-0 6-1

Will now play Belgium

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The U16s have been very lucky with the draw, with the two strongest teams on paper in Zutphen (Slovak Republic and Germany) both being in the opposite half of the draw.

The U14s just squeaked through

Pippa Horn def Rebecca Petersom 6-4 3-6 6-2
Katy Dunne lost to Caroline Kallberg 6-2 4-6 8-6
Askew/Dunne def Kallberg/Petersom 6-7(2) 6-4 [13-11]

They face a fairly strong Croatian team next

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The U16s were unable to capitalise on their fortunate draw. The ease with which Jessica has won the two top matches, suggests we would have qualified comfortably had Jennifer Ren not pulled out.

GBR 1 - Belgium 2

Manisha Foster lost to Steffi Distelmans 6-3 6-3
Jessica Ren def Laura Bernard 6-2 6-2
Foster/Ren lost to Bernard/Distelmans 1-6 6-4 [10-3]

We play the strong Slovak Republic for 3rd/4th

Tennis Europe has mangled the results of two groups in the U14s, so no news from there at present.

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Good news from the U14s

GBR 2 Croatia 1

Pippa Horn d. Donna Vekic 7-6(1) 0-6 6-3
Katy Dunne d. Karla Popovic 6-7(1) 7-6(5) 7-5
Horn/Askew lost to Vlahinic/Vekic 7-5 6-3

That means both GBR U14 teams qualify for the finals

Czech Republic 2 GBR 1

Pippa Horn d. Gabriela Pantuckova 5-7 6-3 6-1
Katy Dunne lost to Petra Rohanova 7-6(5) 6-2
Askew/Dunne lost to Pantuckova/Rohanova 6-4 6-2

That defeat just means that we will not be seeded - Rohanova is ranked 4 in Europe.


In the U16s they finished 4th in the Group after losing 2-1 to the Slovak Republic

Lucy lost 7-6(3) 6-3
Jessica won 6-4 6-4 against Chantal Skamlova (ranked inside the top 100 ITF Juniors)
Manisha/Jessica lost 6-3 6-7(5) [10-5]


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Jess did well this week winning all her singles matches. Overall our U16 team just wasn't strong enough.

Good to see our U14 team making the final rounds. Pippa winning all her singles matches is promising and Katy fought well, winning one of hers. Rohanova is a good player and has beaten Sachia Vickery, so for Katy to push her to a tiebreak is a good sign.

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Thanks again David for all the week 5 junior info smile.gif

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The same team is in Leeuwarden, Holland for the finals of the U14s starting on Friday, and the draw is as good as they could reasonably hope, with the two strongest nations on paper (Russia and the Czech Republic) drawn in the opposite half. Even so they will need 2 sterling performances to repeat last year's final

QF

(1) Czech Republic v Germany
(3) Bulgaria v Russia
Serbia v (4) Belarus
Great Britain v (2) Belgium

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Good luck girls

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Not a good day, so no repeat of last year's final....

Germany d. (1) Czech Republic 2-1
Russia d. (3) Bulgaria 3-0
(4) Belarus d. Serbia 2-1
(2) Belgium d. Great Britain 3-0

No sign of the individual results yet

5th-8th playoffs

Great Britain v Serbia



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The individual results are finally up on TE

GBR 0 Belgium 3

Pippa Horn lost to Klaartje Liebens 6-0 6-3
Katy Dunne lost to Justine De Sutter 6-0 6-2
Dunne/Askew lost to De Sutter/ Benoit 7-5 4-6 [11-9]

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There is live streaming from the court where GBR is playing Serbia, so if you want to see Katy (she is in white, currently 2-2 in the first set - don't know what happened in the first match) then go to 

 http://www.windmillcup.com/index.php?show=livefeedWWC#

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Katy was impressive, from what I saw of her, playing aggressively and dictating most of the points. She won 6-2 6-0 .

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Thats a bit of a beatdown in the 1st round. Hopefully they can bounce back and get 5th place.

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5th-8th playoffs

Great Britain 3 Serbia 0

Beth won 6-4 6-3
Katy won 6-2 6-0
Beth/Pippa won 4-6 7-5 [10-7]

5th-6th play-offs

(1) Czech Republic v Great Britain

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