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Oscariyan · Club Coach

Boys: 2025 European Summer Cups - U12/U14/U16/U18

DavidC · Tennis legend

Oscariyan wrote:
Wonder why Mark has not had good recent results overall? Seems to be struggling after rising to the top 60 juniors. As mentioned before, the boys side is worrying with so little depth.

Development for juniors, and boys in particular, is usually not smooth. Mark's rise into the top 100 has exposed him to regular top level juniors early, and he has probably lost a bit of confidence. He is still in the top ten ranked within his year, and hopefully he will get on a good run before long. Today's result is nothing to be concerned about. He was playing another top 2009 boy on clay which probably favours Kosaner over Mark. Even indoors, at the Les Petits As semis 2 years ago, Mark only got past the Turkish lad 7-5 in the third. Kosaner has won 80% of his ITF matches this year, and is climbing rapidly towards the top 100. Don't be surprised if once he reaches the top 100 he also has a dip for a while.

DavidC · Tennis legend

The under 16s easily overcame top seeds Ukraine to finish third in their group (straight sets wins for Eric and Mark). The under 18s also finished third after a 3-0 victory over Bulgaria (straight sets wins for Billy and Ferran) followed by Dylan/Ferran combining in doubles

DavidC · Tennis legend

The under 12 finals started today with a 4 team play-off (see above). Fortunately GBR weren't drawn into the play-off, so are straight into the round robin, which starts tomorrow. Their round robin group includes Turkiye, Czechia and Belgium. Belgium are the opposition tomorrow and live scores should be available here

DavidC · Tennis legend

The under 12 round robin group was allocated the second slot, so matches are still going on, but we have an unassailable lead over Belgium. Czechia won the other match in the group.

U12 RR1

GBR 2 Belgium 0 currently

Tomas Gabor beat Luca Godaux 7-6(5) 6-4
Kai Max Hodkinson beat Stavros Laderos 6-1 6-2
Hodkinson/Rae lead Godaux/Ghobert 5-0

DavidC · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:
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U12 RR1

GBR 2 Belgium 0 currently

Tomas Gabor beat Luca Godaux 7-6(5) 6-4
Kai Max Hodkinson beat Stavros Laderos 6-1 6-2
Hodkinson/Rae lead Godaux/Ghobert 5-0

U12 RR1

GBR 3 Belgium 0

Tomas Gabor beat Luca Godaux 7-6(5) 6-4
Kai Max Hodkinson beat Stavros Laderos 6-1 6-2
Hodkinson/Rae beat Godaux/Ghobert 6-1 6-1

DavidC · Tennis legend

The under 12 team gained a second victory, albeit much closer today, to win the group and qualify for the title match. They have 2 wins, and because Belgium beat Turkiye they will top the group on head to head even if they lose to Turkiye tomorrow

RR2

Czechia 1 GBR 2

Adam Zigmund lost to Tomas Gabor 2-6 6-7(6)
Jakub Kyncl beat Kai Max Hodkinson 3-6 6-4 6-2
Kyncl/Toman lost to Hodkinson/Rae 6-2 3-6 [5-10]

DavidC · Tennis legend

An emphatic third win for the under 12s sets up a final tomorrow against Group A winners France. No British team (boys or girls) has won the Summer Cup since it started in 2007, and only 2 have reached the final. It is also the first time that a British team has reached the finals of both the U12 Summer Cup and Winter Cup in the same year

RR3

Turkiye 0 GBR 3

Doga Yalcin lost to Tomas Gabor 1-6 2-6
Yigit Uras Yildirim lost to Kai Max Hodkinson 0-6 2-6
Yalcin/Yildirim lost to Gabor/Rae (according to TE) or Hodkinson/Rae (according to live scores) 3-6 2-6

Final

France v GBR

Oscariyan · Club Coach

France is going to be tough but not impossible and Czechia was difficult on paper with Kyncl etc but we managed to come through that (just).

Oscariyan · Club Coach

What time will the boys finals start?

DavidC · Tennis legend

Oscariyan wrote:
What time will the boys finals start?

Short answer is I don't know. However all 4 matches are on different courts tomorrow, so they can play simultaneously. They seemed to start fairly early today, so I guess 8.30 or 9am BST

Oscariyan · Club Coach

DavidC wrote:
Oscariyan wrote:
What time will the boys finals start?
Short answer is I don't know. However all 4 matches are on different courts tomorrow, so they can play simultaneously. They seemed to start fairly early today, so I guess 8.30 or 9am BST

Thanks, Ill set my alarm :)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Tomas gets the team off to a great start beating Anatole Lecomte 6-3 7-6(0) Next Max takes on Thiago Carmasol in the top singles - the French boy gaining attention for both his tennis and his hairstyle (https://www.puntodebreak.com/en/2025/06/21/thiago-carmasol-the-french-u12-player-causing-sensation-on-social-media-for-his-hair)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Well that was brutal biggrin
First ever British win of the under 12 Summer Cup

GBR 2 France 0

Tomas Gabor beat Anatole Lecomte 6-3 7-6(0)
Kai Max Hodkinson beat Thiago Carmasol 6-0 6-0

DavidC · Tennis legend

That completes the Winter/Summer Cup double for this team. The only other boys team to win the Winter Cup U12 was Jack Draper, Jake Fearnley and George Loffhagen, so lets hope this trio develop equally well.