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Quarter-Finals ...
full draws incl. plates
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U19 Boys:
[1] Adrian Waller bt [9/16] Alex Ingham
9/7, 5/9, 9/3, 9/4 (62m)
Neil Cordell bt [3/4] Chris Fuller
9/1, 9/0, 9/0 (58m)
[3/4] Andrew Widdison bt [5/8] Adam Murrills
8/10, 9/3, 9/3, 9/5 (77m)
[2] Joe Lee bt [5/8] Hywell Robinson
9/1, 9/4, 9/2 (40m)
U19 Girls:
[1] Victoria Lust bt [5/8] Katherine Quarterman
9/4, 9/2, 9/2 (33m)
[3/4] Sarah-Jane Perry bt [9/16] Julianne Courtice
9/3, 9/5, 7/9, 2/9, 9/3 (48m)
[3/4] Victoria Bell bt [5/8] Natalie Pritchard
9/2, 9/1, 9/1 (26m)
[2] Kimberley Hay bt [5/8] Harriet Ingham
5/9, 9/2, 9/4, 9/5 (31m)
U15 Boys:
[1] David Wardle bt [5/8] Tom Ford
9/3, 9/4, 9/4 (30m)
[3/4] Declan James bt Wesley Howell
9/0, 9/0, 9/3 (14m)
[5/8] George Wileman bt [3/4] Niall Engerer
9/7, 10/8, 5/9, 9/5 (60m)
[2] Oliver Holland bt [5/8] Matthew Sidaway
9/0, 9/2, 9/6 (26m)
U15 Girls:
[1] Sophie Lemom bt [5/8] Jade Thompson
9/2, 9/5, 9/0 (33m)
[3/4] Katie Smith bt [5/8] Hannah Davies
1/9, 9/7, 9/5, 6/9, 10/8 (57m)
[3/4] Emily Whitlock bt Issie Norman-Ross
8/10, 9/4, 9/6, 9/1 (38m)
[2] Jemma Ockwell bt Charlotte Kirkwood
9/1, 9/2, 5/9, 6/9, 9/2 (40m)
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U15: Little 'n Large ...
The quarter-finals got under way at 5pm with two "little v large"
clashes in the Boys U15, top seed David Wardle and local
favourite Declan James, seeded 3/4, both easing through in
straight games.
Oliver Holland, seeded two, also wasted little time in making
the semis, but it took George Wileman an hour to create a minor
upset with his 3/1 win over 3/4 seed Niall Engerer.
In the Girls, top seed Sophie Lemon also won in three, but
the much-improved Jade Thompson made her work very hard in the first
two before tiring in the third.
Yorkshire's 3/4 seed Katie Smith survived a torrid encounter
against Hannah Davies, coming from 6/1 and 8/4 down in the fifth to
take it 10/8.
Jemma Ockwell and Emily Whitlock didn't have
straightforward wins either - Ockwell was cruising at 2/0 up but
needed to refocus in the fifth to go through, while Whitlock was
surprised by her unseeded opponent in the first game before settling
into her usual winning rhythm.
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Quarter-Finals
Full schedule
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 "That
felt a lot better than this morning, the courts were really hot then
and even though I got a good start he got back into it and made it
tough. Tonight I felt good from the start, and he was maybe feeling
his hard match from this afternoon.
"It's got to be an advantage to me playing here, the home crowd will
help and I know the courts very well. I lost from 2/0 up in the
second round last year, and I've only got a couple of months left in
this age group so it would be good to do well here …"
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U19:
Top seeds plus one ... |
Cordell's Conquest Continues
The story in the U19 event is one of the top seeds ... plus Neil
Cordell.
Defending girls champion Victoria Lust will meet England
team-mate Sarah-Jane Perry in the semis. Lust ease through in
three games, and for a while it looked like Perry might do the same.
Julianne Courtice had other ideas though as she sneaked the third
and took the fourth comfortably before Perry regrouped to take the
decider.
There will be one all-Northern semi-final, with Northumbria's
reigning U17 champion Kimberley Hay taking on Cumbria's
Victoria Bell. They've come up through the ranks together and
both looked assured enough in their quarter-finals to suggest a
semi-final in the balance.
The boys all had trouble finishing their matches on the warm courts
- Joe Lee's 3/0 in 40 minutes was the shortest, Neil
Cordell took 58 minutes to drop a solitary point as he continued
his massacre of the seeds.
Cordell meets defending champion Adrian Waller who beat Alex
Ingham in another of those Little 'n Large encounters, Lee comes up
against 3/4 seed Andrew Widdison, who prevailed 3/1 against
Adam Murrills in the longest match of the tournament at 77 minutes.
 "I'm
happy with the way I played, I had to work really hard there, and
the scoreline really doesn't do justice to the match.
"I've finished school and I've gone full-time at Pontefract, so I
don't play many junior events which is why I'm not seeded.
"I definitely feel like I'm improving, Malcolm's a great help of
course, and being able to go on court with players like James
[Willstrop] and Lee [Beachill] is fantastic, so when I come to play
U19 events it seems easier.
"I won the U13, got to the semis in the U15 and U17. It's funny, I
was seeded one for the U15, and came up against the same people I'm
playing this time, unseeded!"
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G15: Super-quick Sophie
 Top
seed Sophie Lemom wasted no time in reaching the
quarter-finals, winning 0,0 and 1 in just 15 minutes, giving her
time to go and watch her erstwhile opponent, Jade Thompson,
who took rather longer to beat Emily Hayes 3/1 in a well-contested
match, Emily taking the third but unable to sustain the effort in
the fourth.
 Second
seed Jemma Ockwell dropped her first points of the tournament
as she went 0/5 down to Katie Bradbury, but Jemma's greater power
and precision soon took over as she recovered to win in straight
games.
No worries for 3/4 seeds Emily Whitlock and Katie Smith,
who progressed for the loss of six ands eight points respectively.
Hampshire's Issie Norman-Ross carried claimed her second
scalp of the event as she came from 2-0 down - 9/0 in the first -
to beat 5/8 seed Victoria Temple-Murray.
 "I
just couldn't get into it at the start, but we've played a few times
and it's usually 3/2 to her so I knew could get back into it. I was
more determined, more up for this one ..."
B15:
Howell joins the seeds ...
 No
upsets in the boys event, with seven of the top eight seeds winning
through to the quarters. Top seed David Wardle was
hardest pushed, dropping the first game to Nicholas Mulvey before
prevailing in four games and exactly an hour.
By contrast second seed Oliver Holland - "volleying
superbly," according to the match referee - took just 19 minutes to
reach the quarters, where he meets Matthew Sidaway.
The exception is Gloucestershire's Wesley Howell, who won the
battle of yesterday's 'giant-killers', twice coming from 6-8 down
before sealing a 3/0 win over a much taller Ross Macdonald. Wesley
meets Nottingham's own Declan James for a place in the semis.
U19 Draws & Results
Alex & Neil gatecrash
the quarters
Straightforward progress for most of the Boys U19 seeds, with
Alex Ingham upsetting 5/8 seed Ben Coleman to set up a
quarter-final against defending champion Adrian Waller.
Chris Fuller will meet unseeded Neil Cordell after
Neil - unseeded due to not playing many junior events - put out 5/8
seed Michael Harris in straight games.
The bottom half lines up precisely to seeding as second seed Joe
Lee meets Welshman Hywel Robinson and Andrew Widdison
takes on Adam Murrils.
For the U19 girls it's even simpler, with seven of the top eight
seeds all through to this evening's quarter-finals.
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Jade Thompson
Ockwell & Bradbury
Advice for Bradbury & Howell
Reflections ...
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• Today • Day TWO • Day ONE • |
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"I
felt quite comfortable in the first two, but then for some reason I
changed my tactics. I just forgot to play any lengths and went for
dropshots all the time. 
"The
first two games were tough, but in the third I managed to slow it
down, it had been really fast until then, and I think she got a
little tired too …"
"There's
a lot of expectation and pressure on her, and she's never great when
she meets someone for the first time, she needs to know how they
play. 
"I
just wasn't in it in the first game, managed to come back and then
fell behind again. When I was down in the fifth I knew I needed to
relax, just get the ball back and be patient."
"I
knew I'd have to play well to beat him, he's a really good player,
but we played for the first time last week in the French and I won
then, so I think that gave me a bit of an edge. 
"I
played much better than I did this morning, I was concentrating much
better and felt in control right from the start.
