Shame, would have been interesting to watch how Hannah is developing her clay game.

She seems to be doing a good job of clawing this match back. 2-1 up in the decider, with the break

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Double break up now, *4-1.

And DFs not so bad. Just moved on to 13.

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 Yesh 

there's one sort of coaching training, where the coach make you play practice games or sets, but you're always 0-30 down at the start of each game 

You sort of feel that's what Hannah's doing (it's 15 DFs now) - just for the fun of it - to practice 

And she did it !!!

The DF figures are a horror but the score in sets two and three was very comfortable

And Lisa P beat the player ranked WR 192 in R1, and is a clay player, with a CH of about 310 or so

Excellent win for Hannah. Even more so with all those DFs.

Plays the winner of two qualifiers - great chance now to make her first senior ITF final?

As expected, young Lilli Tagger beat the French player

So, it's:

SF: QF: (JE) Hannah Klugman (GBR) (age 16) WR 587 v (q) Lilli Tagger (AUT) (age 17) WR 755

As above, Lilli is one of the most talented youngsters, a tall girl with a killer one-handed backhand

She's part of IMG's squad, which is why she got the wildcard into WTA Miami 1000 qualis - and acquitted herself very respectably

Hannah lost to Lilli, on clay, I seem to remember, quite recently, as part of one of the team competitions (Winter/Summer Cup? BJK Juniors?). But it was terribly close (again if I remember right)

An interesting match-up .....

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 27th of March 2025 05:09:26 PM

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Excellent win for Hannah. Even more so with all those DFs.

Plays the winner of two qualifiers - great chance now to make her first senior ITF final?

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 Yes. Lilli Tagger, though, is one of those qualifiers

Lilli is a junior, and beat Hannah quite recently in the team competition, and was just selected as one of IMG's starlets to play the qualies at the WTA1000 event in Miami i.e. she's a real rising star (bit like Hannah really). Not a 'normal' qualifier, unlike the other woman, the French player. 

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I wonder if she gets called Tiger Lily, though children probably don't read Peter Pan these days. 

-- Edited by Peter too on Thursday 27th of March 2025 04:51:10 PM

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Coup Droit wrote:

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Excellent win for Hannah. Even more so with all those DFs.

Plays the winner of two qualifiers - great chance now to make her first senior ITF final?

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 Yes. Lilli Tagger, though, is one of those qualifiers

Lilli is a junior, and beat Hannah quite recently in the team competition, and was just selected as one of IMG's starlets to play the qualies at the WTA1000 event in Miami i.e. she's a real rising star (bit like Hannah really). Not a 'normal' qualifier, unlike the other woman, the French player. 

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I wonder if she gets called Tiger Lily, though children probably don't read Peter Pan these days. 

-- Edited by Peter too on Thursday 27th of March 2025 04:51:10 PM

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 No, but they probably watch that Walt Disney version of it  (Not a fan of Walt Disney ..... )