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The Mouratoglou Middle School Tennis Girls Team (school year 2019-2020)

January 26, 2020

Hi everyone!

As you know I started the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy School + Tennis program last September 2019. We’re now in January 2020 and so I’d like to present to you my class/tennis mates. What I like most is that everyone is very friendly and we all get along great. We all come from different countries and usually communicate in English. We have 3 coaches for 10 kids and we are split into sub groups of 2 or 3 or 4 players according to what the coaches want us to learn. On Fridays we usually play lots of matches between the groups, including the boys and older boys and girls.

Below you can see everyone’s names and the countries they come from and their current tennis UTR ratings as of today January 26, 2020. I’ll check in about 6 months to see how we all progressed.

Mouratoglou UTR #2 Draw 2

January 21, 2020

Hi everyone!

This weekend January 18-19, 2020 I played another Mouratoglou UTR tournament, this time in draw #2 quite stronger than last week’s draw #3, with older boys and girls. You can see my results above. I beat 2 players ranked close to 7 UTR: Darren Kawamaura and Laura Holztratner, and lost to Maria Kapustina and James O’sullivan who ended up winning the tournament.

I got 3rd Place in the Mouratoglou UTR #1 Tournament

January 12, 2020

Hi everyone!

Today I played a UTR-rated tournament, organized by my academy. In my 3rd Draw, there were kids (girls and boys) of the intermediate groups. The winner is an Indian, Aarwin Saravanan, rated 7.49 UTR, who is in 11th grade, to whom I lost in 1/2 finals. I played 4 boys and beat 3 of 4 of them (Savva Reznikovich, Adrien William Lee Weber, and Amin Ametov). Next week I will play another tournament of this style.

My January 2020 Swiss Rating is R3 (378)

January 8, 2020

After playing 2 tournaments in December, my Swiss “monthly” rating went up quite a bit, to R3 (378).

Francesca Saroli won a Tournament in Bern

December 23, 2019

Hi everyone!

This weekend I won a tournament in Bern. I was looking for a tournament during the Christmas holiday, and the only place which had a tournament with lots of players (more than 20) was Bern. The rules were that they would make sub tournaments of 8 players. As it turned out, because of the fact that they use old ratings from October (where I am an R4), I was the first seed of the second tournament, and I easily beat all 3 players I played.

I got a trophy and instead of a prize I got a 50% discount coupon far a future participation in a MKTA tournament, not too generous. Not sure I will ever go back to that tennis club in the future.

My December 2019 Swiss Ranking is R3 (#512)

December 5, 2019

Hi everyone!

The Swiss Tennis ranking is tricky. They only publish “official” rankings twice a year, on October 1 and April 1.

However, they calculate monthly rankings, and if you want to find out what your monthly ranking is, you need to get a subscription and pay SFr. 1.50 per month for that. Only people who subscribe to that “service” can see their monthly rating.

Swiss Championship Qualifiers G14, Bollingen, November 2019

December 4, 2019

Hi everyone!

I just got back from Bern, where I played the Qualifiers of the Swiss Championship G14. I had a tough draw because first had to play the seed #7 Matilde Tavazza, rated 6.06 UTR, but beat her 7-6 6-2, then beat Alexandra Gasser, then unfortunately in the last qualifying round lost to Tina Moser rated 6.40, she was too strong for me that day.

Francesca Saroli won a tennis tournament in Nyon

November 5, 2019

Hi everyone!

I’m happy to let you know I won a tournament in Nyon on November 1 and 2, 2019.

I played 3 rounds, and beat everyone.
Round 1: I beat Fay-Lynn Jongbloed 6-3 6-1 (R4)
Round 2: I beat Estelle Bezos 6-3 6-1 (R3, 5.23 UTR)
Final: I beat Margaux Hofer 6-1 6-1 (4.73 UTR)

See the photos below for more info.

This year I am at Mouratoglou Academy!

October 4, 2019

Since I love to play tennis so much, this year I moved to the South of France to be in the Tennis + School program at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy.

Bonjour tout le monde!
Jusqu’à juin 2019, j’ai habité à Key Biscayne, en Floride. Mes parents ont décidé de m’inscrire au programme Tennis + Ecole de l’Académie de Tennis de Mouratoglou, à Nice. que j’ai commencé en septembre 2019.

Francesca Saroli

Привет всем!
В этом году я переехала на юг Франции, учусь в программе Теннис + Школа Академии Тенниса Муратоглу, в Ницце.

Франческа Сароли