Edie Griffiths, Hollie Smart, Daniella Britton and Megan Knight were all playing at that venue last week, albeit mainly outdoors, so have had recent competition on similar surfaces but its great to see the youngsters doing so well.

Hannah has just come off of 3 weeks competition and a week or so training on European clay, so I would expect there is a certain amount of adjustment for her.  I think Allegra has been playing clay recently too.

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JonH comes home wrote:

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I don't follow juniors much at all, but do like to follow the Nationals - 5 seeding upsets seems stunning to me, albeit top 2 survived. Am I right to be surprised or did others expect most of these? Any genuine upsets?

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 Whilst Im not for one moment saying I predicted those results I cant say any of them really surprised me. If I had to pick one I wouldnt have thought Edie would beat Allegra but that still wasnt a huge shock.

The problem with the LTA seeding is that its not totally reflective of international success. For example, I would argue that making the quarter finals in a strong J200 is better than making the final in a British tour in Scotland (for example) The LTA award a lot more points for the British tour though. 
When you have someone like Mia, who has won a few British Tours, this is going to make a big difference to her seeding as her ranking is higher than Hollies but their level is very similar. 
Same with Daniella and Hep. Danni has done very well at ITFs and in GB events but this isnt reflected strongly enough in her LTA ranking 

Megan, as a 2011 born, is too young for points for open events to count so the 3300 points she would have gained for the British tour masters arent counted at all. As shes still officially 14U so she can only count 3 of her 16/18U results for her LTA ranking. She might have been seeded if they had all counted.

Basically, with the exception of Hannah and Mika who are so far ahead that their LTA rankings match their international ones, the rest cant be relied on at all 

 

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 Thats interesting and good feedback; same with boys I presume? 

Who would you expect / predict to come through to the last 4 of the girls? Mika and Hannah? Brooke? 

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Rose wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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I don't follow juniors much at all, but do like to follow the Nationals - 5 seeding upsets seems stunning to me, albeit top 2 survived. Am I right to be surprised or did others expect most of these? Any genuine upsets?

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 Whilst Im not for one moment saying I predicted those results I cant say any of them really surprised me. If I had to pick one I wouldnt have thought Edie would beat Allegra but that still wasnt a huge shock.

The problem with the LTA seeding is that its not totally reflective of international success. For example, I would argue that making the quarter finals in a strong J200 is better than making the final in a British tour in Scotland (for example) The LTA award a lot more points for the British tour though. 
When you have someone like Mia, who has won a few British Tours, this is going to make a big difference to her seeding as her ranking is higher than Hollies but their level is very similar. 
Same with Daniella and Hep. Danni has done very well at ITFs and in GB events but this isnt reflected strongly enough in her LTA ranking 

Megan, as a 2011 born, is too young for points for open events to count so the 3300 points she would have gained for the British tour masters arent counted at all. As shes still officially 14U so she can only count 3 of her 16/18U results for her LTA ranking. She might have been seeded if they had all counted.

Basically, with the exception of Hannah and Mika who are so far ahead that their LTA rankings match their international ones, the rest cant be relied on at all 

 

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 Thats interesting and good feedback; same with boys I presume? 

 

Who would you expect / predict to come through to the last 4 of the girls? Mika and Hannah? Brooke? 

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 For some reason the boys arent so bad. I think its because its harder for them to play some of the events as there are more boys and there is more of a physical difference between a 13 and 18 year old boy than there is a 13 and 18 year old girl. Because of that boys tend to mostly play their own age group and you dont see many 16 year old boys winning British tours. So not many inflated LTA points. That keeps the seeding more level.

im going for Tegan, Brooke, Mika and Hannah in the semis

Tegan and Brooke could cause an upset to either of the other 2