Boys: Junior Nationals 2018 (U12/U14/U16/U18) - Week 34

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys: Junior Nationals 2018 (U12/U14/U16/U18) - Week 34

DavidC · Tennis legend

Our trio who reached the U12 Summer Cup semis all progressed for the loss of 2 or 3 games.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The semis in the U12 boys has the top four seeds:

[1] Hugo Coquelin v [4] Viktor Frydrych

[2] Henry Trump v [3] Jamie Diack

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 22nd of August 2018 03:50:57 PM

seagull · Hall of fame

Lui Maxted looking good in both 14's and 16's. Seems a long time ago he was in squad with my son! (he was 2 years younger to be fair)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Know what you mean, seagull - one of the boys my son used to play with a lot is now ATP top 500 ! As you say, to be fair, the other lad nearly always won when they played but it was always close

BOYS U14 semis:

[1] Lui Maxted v [3] Matt Rutter

Yujiro Onuma v [4] Oliver Tarvet

Yujiro beat the second seed in a third-set TB

BOYS U18 semis:

[1] Joseph Newman-Billington v [3] Dan Martin

[5] Jake Hersey v Dan Siddall

The U16s are still at the QF stage. Just to note that it's true that many top players don't play this event but I often see it on the Bio of US college players and national champion is national champion (or blinkin' well should be !).

seagull · Hall of fame

BOYS U14 semis:

[1] Lui Maxted v [3] Matt Rutter

Lui won 6-0, 6-0!

seagull · Hall of fame

Impressed they have live scoring for this!

DavidC · Tennis legend

Bizarrely neither U14 finalist conceded a game, though misfortune affected the other match. Lui is the one player left in 2 singles events

U12 semis

[1] Hugo Coquelin d. [4] Viktor Frydrych 6-2 6-0
[2] Henry Trump d. [3] Jamie Diack 7-5 6-0

U14 semis:

[1] Lui Maxted d. [3] Matt Rutter 6-0 6-0
Yujiro Onuma d. [4] Oliver Tarvet w/o

U16 semis

(WC) Harry Lazell v (3) Lui Maxted
(5) Alex Solonenko v (7) Barney FitzPatrick

U18 semis:

[3] Dan Martin d. [1] Joseph Newman-Billington 7-5 7-5
[5] Jake Hersey d. Dan Siddall 7-5 6-1

DavidC · Tennis legend

Lui picked up both U14 titles but came unstuck in the U16s. Hugo Coquelin was untroubled throughout the under 12s (he is a 2005 though, unlike most of the others)

U12 F

[1] Hugo Coquelin d. [2] Henry Trump 6-1 6-2
Doubles winners (1) Coquelin/Diack

U14 F:

[1] Lui Maxted d. Yujiro Onuma 6-1 6-3
Doubles winners (2) Groom/Maxted

U16 semis

(WC) Harry Lazell d. (3) Lui Maxted 6-3 6-1
(7) Barney FitzPatrick d. (5) Alex Solonenko 6-2 6-3

U18 F:

[3] Dan Martin d. [5] Jake Hersey 6-2 5-2 rtd
Doubles winners Golesworthy/Mackinlay

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I wasn't there but I always think it's pretty feeble and mean-spirited to retire in (effectively) the very last game. Especially in a final. Unless you were lying on the ground, unable to walk, Jake, you should have played four more balls, and let Dan have his moment, he'd earned it.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Unfortunately another retirement in the under 16 final (albeit not one game from the end). Still both combined yesterday to claim the doubles title

U16 F

(WC) Harry Lazell d. (7) Barney FitzPatrick 6-1 rtd

Doubles winners FitzPatrick/Lazell

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
I wasn't there but I always think it's pretty feeble and mean-spirited to retire in (effectively) the very last game. Especially in a final. Unless you were lying on the ground, unable to walk, Jake, you should have played four more balls, and let Dan have his moment, he'd earned it.

I agree with the general sentiments re such retirements.

And as for Jake I note that he has secured a qualifying WC to the Mallorca Challenger and is scheduled to play on Sunday.