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DavidC · Tennis legend

Girls: 2025 U14 World Junior Finals, Prostejov, Czech Republic, clay (Week 32

DavidC · Tennis legend

The player list has been updated, and Sofia Tatu has replaced Liv Zingg

DavidC · Tennis legend

GBR are seeded 2 and Japan 7, with Monday's match for GBR being against Venezuela.

Mervatron2 · Challenger level

Not a bad replacement to have, especially on clay.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Sofia Tatu won her first match, 6-2 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And even easier win for Megan Knight

DavidC · Tennis legend

The doubles was equally easy. In the other match in the group Chinese Taipei edged out the seeded Japan 2-1 in a match tiebreak doubles

RR1

(2) GBR 3 Venezuela 0

Sofia Tatu d. Renatta Morillo 6-2 6-2
Megan Knight d. Stephanie Pumar 6-1 6-0
Tatu/Watson d. Morillo/Pumar 6-2 6-0

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Grace played singles today

But lost 6-2 6-3

From the bits I saw, it was quite a classic clay match, lots of long rallies with not much going on, but the Japanese player being a little more solid, a little better in placement, and a little better at doing something with the shorter ball (basically a bit better

)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Megan had the devil's own job to beat the 12 year-old from Japan

Ended up in two tiebreaks

Not sure clay is Megan's best surface - well, I hope not

Now down to the doubles

DavidC · Tennis legend

.... and Megan/Grace came up trumps in the doubles. The end result is 2 wins for both GBR and Chinese Taipei (who beat Venezuela 3-0). Both nations qualify for the quarter-finals and tomorrow's match determines position in the quarter-final draw. The winner will take on a second place team in another group

RR2

(2) GBR 2 (7) Japan 1

Grace Watson lost to Nana Ononzawa 2-6 3-6
Megan Knight beat Shina Okuyama 7-6 7-6
Knight/Watson beat Okuyama/Umeda 7-5 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Unfortunately Grace lost again, but in a closer match

3-6 6-4 6-1

DavidC · Tennis legend

However Megan won again, and combined with Sofia to take the doubles so GBR end the round robin with 3 wins smile The quarter-final is against Korea tomorrow with the full draw available here.

RR3

(2) GBR 2 Chinese Taipei 1

Grace Watson lost to Ke-Chieh Hsu 6-3 4-6 1-6
Megan Knight beat Tsai-Jung Chiang 6-2 6-2
Knight/Tatu beat Chou/Hsu 6-2 6-2

QF

Korea Republic v GBR

9vicman · Futures qualifying

Ironically the Korean number No. 2 has won all three matches, and the No. 1 lost all three, so all set for another doubles decider.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
Ironically the Korean number No. 2 has won all three matches, and the No. 1 lost all three, so all set for another doubles decider.

Luckily the best Korean player by a country mile has decided not to play this team event

So, let's take advantage, les filles !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Sofia lost, 3 & 4

Meg won, 2 & 4

so it's all down to the doubles (again) which will be Meg and Grace

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 7th of August 2025 07:07:32 PM