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PaulM · Tennis legend

Girls: 2026 Wimbledon (Week 27)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Good effort from Tegan, showing good composure. coming two points from a win in a topsy-turvy final set, but in the end lost out 6-2 3-6 7-6(7) Ophelia lost 6-0 6-4 while Liv lost 6-3 6-0, so no British winners in the girls today

PaulM · Tennis legend

I thought Tegan should have wrapped that up to be quite honest.

Liv basically checked out when she got broken which was incredibly disappointing.

-- Edited by PaulM on Saturday 4th of July 2026 04:21:17 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
I thought Tegan should have wrapped that up to be quite honest.
Liv basically checked out when she got broken which was incredibly disappointing.

-- Edited by PaulM on Saturday 4th of July 2026 04:21:17 PM

Yes, to break in the third, have all the momentum, have Barros in a twist, and then go and serve two weak doubles faults, when your serve is not a weapon anyway, is just giving the match away

DavidC · Tennis legend

R1 (L64)

(13) Felitsata Dorofeeva-Rybas (***) d. (WC) Sophie Bekker 6-4 6-2
(12) Mika Stojsavljevic v Welles Newman Ct 18 match 1
(WC) Daniella Britton v (8) Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi (ARG) Ct 8 match 1
Ruien Zhang (CHN) d. (WC) Liv Zingg 6-3 6-0
(Q) Carrie-Anne Hoo (USA) v (WC) Megan Knight Ct 5 match 2
(7) Mariia Makarova (***) v (WC) Edie Griffiths Ct 4 match 3
Alyssa James (JAM) d. (WC) Ophelia Korpanec Davies 6-0 6-4
(4) Victoria Luiza Barros (BRA) d. (WC) Tegan Bush 6-2 3-6 7-6(7)
Tereza Hermanova (CZE) d. (WC) Annabel Wong 6-4 6-3
Hollie Smart v Renee Alame (AUS) Ct 8 match 3

Doubles R1 (L32)

(1) Barros/Leme Da Silva (BRA) v (WC) Bush/Prisadnikova
(WC) Britton/Griffiths v Hermanova/Sekerkova (CZE)
Clarke/Traynor (USA) v (WC) Bekker/Zingg
Chang/Sohns (USA) v Eigelsbach/Smart (GER/GBR)
(WC) Knight/Wong v Pircher/Yoshida (AUT/JPN)

dodrade · Futures qualifying

First time i've seen Sophie play, does she regularly wear lipstick on court?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

dodrade wrote:
First time i've seen Sophie play, does she regularly wear lipstick on court?

I can't say about the lipstick

But I've seen Sophie Bekker be extremely theatrical on court (which is one way of putting it - 'behave really badly' would be another)

Also, unless I'm having a complete moment, she is also the girls who has complete meltdowns in Afrikaans (especially when her mum (?) is there), which adds a bit of character to proceedings

However, I have noted that it's got slightly better more recently smile

Var · Challenger qualifying

dodrade wrote:
First time i've seen Sophie play, does she regularly wear lipstick on court?

Does it matter? Now if one of the lads was wearing lipstick that would be more interesting. Totally acceptable though. Everyone to their own.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Mika won 6-0 6-4

No real contest, just a question of closing it out

And Dani beat the #11 in the world, and 8th seed, 6-3 6-3

Very straightforward (even though it's true that the Argentinian girl is a clay girl, with a dodgy backhand)

PaulM · Tennis legend

Yeah I saw the Argentinian and after a few points I thought, 'I bet CD has something to say about that backhand ' haha!

Two pretty solid performances overall. Mika got a bit shaky serving it out but job done.

-- Edited by PaulM on Sunday 5th of July 2026 11:54:47 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Dani's had such an impressive last few months

All the best to her keeping progressing