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19/04/19

5th SBTTFW 2019 - Smrikva Bowl Tennis Talents Family Week 13/4/-20/4/2019 (1st week)

A very unique week in Smrikve for the talents and families was just completed…

The program was run by coach Luca Appino, Tennis Talents founder, and by coach Mio, Smrikva Bowl founder. Assistant coaches during the week were Massimo Stupar and visiting coach Silard Kardhordo. The program had focus on two elements:

Tennis Talents Method

1. 5 Senses
2. Muscular release and acceleration
3. Ideal impact zone
4. Timing, rhythm and footwork
5. Tactics: 5 options

and Momentum (the invisible force in tennis)…

The Alumni of this first week of this year edition were:

• Karlo Brkić
• Fabian Đitko
• Alessia Beatrice Chiriac
• Manuella Persson
• Stefan Sladaković
• Tara Sladaković

…with moments to share some key concepts but the most important was to feel them later by each Alumni… this is the base of the whole Method… sensations and ability to feel…

… always give the Alumni some basics…

… let them start with having fun…

… and than feel the element on the court…

… and play…

play…

explain…

we got it ;)… Karlo and Fabian…

warm up and activate before every session… morning or afternoon need to be done…

play…

after the sessions there is always a streching leader… to strech at the end and make proper activation is always very important…

… Stefi :)…

learn something new…

and strech again…

big or small does not matter… new friendship are made… as Yoda like to say… “do you judge me by my size?… and you should not” :)… Manu and Alessia…

play… … put in practice the subject of the day… and play following the tactics of the day…

learn…

… and every day one by one spent time with Luca on element of the day that they wished to improve…

individual interview with Alumni and families is always part of the week…

and graduation is time to celebrate the whole class :)

… we also celebrated Taki’s 3000 hours dedicated to her tennis development…

… see you soon! :D

bye bye from Smrikve!

Please visit www.smrikve.com to learn more about Smrikve, Istria from Smrikve, Smrikva Bowl, one of the most important under 10 tennis tournaments in the World, and Villa Smrikve, SMRIKVE LOUNGE, Villa TASTE, for your accommodation with swimming pool in Stinjan (Pula – Pola) if you decide to spent your holiday in Istria, Croatia.

08/04/19

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THE 24th SMRIKVA BOWL 2019 CANDIDATES... The confirmation e-mails have been sent to all the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 candidates who presented complete candidacies in time...

All the candidates that have presented complete candidacies in time and indicated correct e-mail address in their application forms should have received the confirmation e-mail letters by 8th of April 2019 of:

a) their acceptance
b) suggestion to join the waiting list
c) or impossibility to invite them to play this year Smrikva Bowl.

For the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 annual the application forms received exceeded by far the number of total places available envisaged for this year edition of 96 players in total (48 + 48 Draws)… and the right to bring forward the deadline date was executed for the sixth consecutive time in the Smrikva Bowl history

By taking into consideration that players who presented their candidacy in time are ranked among TOP players in the country the decision was taken to extend the number of accepted players to our maximum potential of almost 120 players… the new envisaged draws are: 64 boys + 48 girls draws…

Smrikva Bowl historical limit was always 100 players and we confirmed over 20 players above our traditional limit…

The candidacies presented were from six continents and over 40 countries with several new countries. Total number of countries represented on Smrikva Bowl since its foundation in 1996 is expected to pass over 90 countries after this year Smrikva Bowl Ambassadors Nomination Ceremony…

There are players who presented complete candidacy before the deadline and were invited to join the waiting list… therefore there is no possibility to take into consideration other candidacies…

The players that have not received confirmation e-mail but have provided in time all the five requested elements in the application instructions indicated in the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 tournament presentation please inform Smrikve Tennis Club via e-mail: miodrag_bozovic@ yahoo.it

02/04/19

Top Smrikva Bowl and "LM"/SB players on ATP, WTA, ITF and European under 14 and 16 ranking lists (update April 2019)

Former top Smrikva Bowl players that reached certain results on the professional ranking list and the top Smrikva Bowl players current ranking.

As of April 1st, 2019 their track record includes the following:
- 30 junior GRAND SLAM titles conquered by 23 players
- 29 professional ATP/WTA titles
- 45 players reached TOP 200 ATP/WTA ranking => 19 players reached TOP 100 ATP/WTA ranking => 5 players reached TOP 20 ATP/WTA => 2 players reached TOP 10 ATP/WTA ranking
- 150+ SB players received scholarships to study in the US & play tennis.

• 24 TOP 200 WTA Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #7 WTA (Feb 2016)
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #20 WTA (Jul 2017)
Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #25 WTA (Feb 2019)
Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #31 WTA (Jan 2019)
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- # 39 WTA (Apr 2019)
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #43 WTA (Mar 2019)
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #83 WTA (Feb 2019)
Ivana LISJAK – 1997 winner – #95 WTA (Jun 2006)
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #96 WTA (Oct 2018)
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #97 WTA (Oct 2017)

Ivana JOROVIC – 2007 player – #100 on WTA (Mar 2019)
Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #121 WTA (Feb 2017)
Clair LIU – 2010 “LM”/SB player -#137 WTA (Jan 2019)
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #139 WTA (Aug 2018)
Deborah CHIESA – 2006 player – #143 WTA (Jun 2018)
Martina TREVISAN – 2003 player – #144 WTA (Aug 2017)
Tereza MRDEZA – 2000 winner – #150 WTA (Oct 2015)
Katie SWAN – 2009 winner – #163 WTA (Oct 2018)
Gabriela TAYLOR – 2008 player – #164 WTA (Oct 2018)
Dejana RADANOVIC – 2006 player – #187 WTA (Jul 2018)

Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #55 WTA doubles (Nov 2017)
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #61 WTA (Feb 2019)
Camilla ROSATELLO – 2005 player – #134 WTA doubles (Jan 2018)
Ema BURGIC – 2002 semifinalist – #145 WTA doubles (Oct 2016)
Giorgia MARCHETTI – 2005 player – #173 WTA doubles (Dec 2018)
Tereza MIHALIKOVA – 2008 player – #189 WTA doubles (May 2017)

• 21 TOP 200 ATP Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #4 ATP (Nov 2017)
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #12 ATP (Nov 2018)
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #24 ATP (Mar 2019)
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #31 ATP (Mar 2019)
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 quarterf.- #88 ATP (Apr 2019)
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #92 ATP (Mar 2019)
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 CD winner – #118 (Apr 2019)
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #143 ATP (Oct 2017)
Gianluigi QUINZI – 2006 winner – # 144 ATP (Mar 2018)
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #146 ATP (Mar 2017)

Tommy PAUL – 2007 “LM”/SB player – #149 ATP (Jan 2018)
Matteo DONATI – 2005 winner – #159 ATP (Jul 2015)
Javier MARTI – 2002 winner – #170 ATP (Apr 2012)
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 semi – #172 ATP (Apr 2019)
Nino SERDARUSIC – 2005 player – #192 ATP (Aug 2018)
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #196 (Apr 2018)

Marin DRAGANJA – 2001 winner – #20 ATP doubles (Apr 2015)
Dino MARCAN – 2001 runner up – #87 ATP doubles (May 2017)
Luca MARGAROLI – 2002 – #130 ATP doubles (May 2017)
Ivan SABANOV – 2002 semi – #192 ATP doubles (Feb 2018)
Matej SABANOV – 2002 semi – #196 ATP doubles (Feb 2018)

As of 1st of April 2019 the ranking summary of the very TOP former Smrikva Bowl boys and girls is the following:

• 53 WTA players

Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #21 WTA
Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #25 WTA
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- #39 WTA
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #44 WTA
Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #53 WTA
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #89 WTA
Ivana JOROVIC – 2007 player – #100 WTA
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #120 WTA
Claire LIU – 2010 player – #145 WTA
Martina TREVISAN – 2003 player – #159 WTA

Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #162 WTA
Katie SWAN – 2009 winner – #166 WTA
Tereza MRDEZA – 2000 winner – #191 WTA
Dejana RADANOVIC – 2006 player – #217 WTA
Andreea ROSCA – 2009 player – #240 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #246 WTA
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #268 WTA
Tena LUKAS – 2005 player – #271 WTA
Gabriela TAYLOR – 2008 player – #282 WTA
Deborah CHIESA – 2006 player – #294 WTA

Olga IANCHUK – 2005 runner up – #310 WTA
Jessica PIERI – 2007 player – #311 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN – 2009 player – #313 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ – 2009 player – #338 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA – 2008 player – #378 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK – 2007 player – #386 WTA
Martina CAREGARO – 2002 winner – #417 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO – 2005 player – #452 WTA
Haruna ARAKAWA – 2008 player – #466 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS – 2006 quarterfinalist – #486 WTA

Miriam BULGARU – 2008 player – #488 WTA
Lea BOSKOVIC – 2009 player – #497 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO – 2007 player – #501 WTA
Seone MENDEZ – 2009 player – #508 WTA
Pia CUK – 2006 player – #522 WTA
Zoe KRUGER – 2012 semif. – #526 WTA
Ashley LAHEY – 2009 player – #529 WTA
Angelica MORATELLI – 2004 player – #532 WTA
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #539 WTA
Tatiana PIERI – 2007 player – #555 WTA

Iva PRIMORAC – 2006 player – #617 WTA
Karin KENNEL – 2005 player – #621 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI – 2005 player – #673 WTA
Oana Georgeta SIMION – 2005 player – #700 WTA
Helen PELLICANO – 2012 player -#711 WTA
Ingrid NEEL – 2008 player – #726 WTA
Alexandra VECIC – 2011 player – 732 WTA
Michaela GORDON – 2009 player – #768 WTA
Vladica BABIC – 2005 player – #769 WTA
Anita HUSARIC – 2004 player – #769 WTA

Paula ARIAS MANJON – 2010 runner up – #838 WTA
Benedetta IVALDI – 2010 player – #838 WTA
Himari SATO – 2012 winner – #838 WTA

• 24 ATP players

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #5 ATP
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #13 ATP
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #25 ATP
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #32 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #88 ATP
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #95 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 cd winner – #118 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI – 2006 winner – #144 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 semi – #172 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #181 ATP

Tommy PAUL – 2007 player – #200 ATP
Matteo DONATI – 2005 winner – #205 ATP
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #213 ATP
Gian Marco MORONI – 2008 player – #231 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC – 2005 player – #255 ATP
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #274 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM – 2008 player – #406 ATP
William BLUMBERG 2008 player – #441 ATP
Robin KERN – 2002 player – #475 ATP
Patrik RIKL – 2009 player – #544 ATP

Lorenzo MUSETTI – 2012 quarterfinalist – #595 ATP
Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA – 2013 runner up – #597 ATP
Nik RAZBORSEK – 2003 player – #595 ATP
Adrian BODMER – 2005 player – #651 ATP

• 7 players TOP 100 ATP RACE TO MILAN NEXT GEN

Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #5 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #6 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 player – #9 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 player – #12 ATP
Nicola KUHN – 2010 player – #17 ATP
Gian Marco MORONI – 2008 player – #33 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM – 2008 player – #52 ATP

NEXT GEN SB PLAYERS:
2017: Borna CORIC and Gianluigi QUINZI (WC)
2018: Alex DE MINAUR (runner up) and Lloyd HARRIS (invited)

• 10 boys and 7 girls… in total 17 players are in TOP 100 ITF

BOYS:
- #2 Lorenzo MUSETTI Junior USOPEN 2018 runner up & junior AO2019 winner
- #9 Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA
- #26 Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA
- #27 Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE
- #36 Erik VANSHELBOIM
- #47 Alibek KACHMAZOV
- #53 Flavio COBOLLI
- #84 Roko HORVAT
- #91 Hamad MEDJEDOVIC
- #94 Luciano DARDERI
- #98 Cezar CRETU

GIRLS:
- #44 Helen PELLICANO
- #46 Kristyna LAVICKOVA
- #66 Alexandra VECIC
- #84 Charlotte OWENSBY
- #97 Julie BELGRAVER
- #98 Pia LOVRIC
- #99 Linda FRUHVIRTOVA

• 3 boys and 1 girl are in TOP 10 ETA under 16 – (Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE #1, Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA #2, Stefan POPOVIC #7, Antonia RUZIC #4, Aliona FALEI #9)

• 1 boy and 1 girl are in TOP 10 ETA under 14 – (Branko DJURIC #6; Linda FRUHVIRTOVA #2)

IN 1996 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP PLAYERS FROM ISTRIA AND KVARNER (1st Smrikva Bowl)… IN 1997 TOP PLAYERS FROM CROATIA gathered on the 2nd Smrikva Bowl… IN 1998 3rd SMRIKVA BOWL STARTED TO GATHER FIRST FOREIGN PLAYERS… and in 2001 – 6th Smrikva Bowl was the last year with dominance of the top national players…

Vilim VISAK (CRO), 1st SB 1996 winner, #612 ATP (Mar 2006)
Ivana LISJAK (CRO), 2nd SB 1997 winner, #95 WTA (Jun 2006)
Astrid BESSER (ITA), 4th SB 1999 winner, #356 WTA (Mar 2009)
Adelchi VIRGILI (ITA), 5th SB 2000 winner, #394 ATP doubles (Oct 2017)
Marin DRAGANJA (CRO), 6th SB 2001 winner, #20 ATP doubles (Apr 2015)
Dino MARCAN (CRO), 6th SB 2001 runner up, #87 ATP doubles (May 2017)

Tereza MRDEZA (CRO), 5th SB 2000 winner, #191 WTA

Petra MARTIC (CRO), 6th SB 2001 winner, #53 WTA

IN 2002 SMRIKVA BOWL STARTED TO BE A EUROPEAN TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2002 – 7th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Federico GAIO (ITA), 7th SB 2002, #213 ATP
Robin KERN (GER), 7th SB 2002, #475 ATP
Javier MARTI (ESP), 7th SB 2002 winner, #170 ATP (Apr 2012)
Luca MARGAROLI (SUI), 7th SB 2002, #142 ATP doubles
Ivan SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #295 ATP doubles
Matej SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #327 ATP doubles

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO), 7th SB 2002 runner up, #39 WTA
Martina CAREGARO (ITA), 7th SB 2002 winner, #417 WTA

2003 – 8th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Dominic THIEM (AUT), 8th SB 2003 winner, #5 ATP
Nik RAZBORSEK (SLO), 8th SB 2003, #595 ATP

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO),8th SB 2003 semif., #39 WTA
Martina TREVISAN (ITA), 8th SB 2003, #159 WTA

2004 – 9th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Miki JANKOVIC (SRB), 9th SB 2004 runner up, #256 ATP (Aug 2016)
Filip VEGER (CRO), 9th SB 2004 semif, #478 ATP (Feb 2015)
Nerman FATIC (BiH), 9th SB 2004 semif, #435 ATP (Dec 2018)

GIRLS
Angelica MORATELLI (ITA), 9th SB 2004, #532 WTA
Vladica BABIC (MNE), 9th SB 2004, #769 WTA
Giada CLERICI (ITA), 2004 player, #703 WTA (Sep 2015)

IN 2005 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 3 CONTINENTS

2005 – 10th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Borna CORIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #12 ATP
Laslo DJERE (SRB), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #32 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 semif., #144 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC (SRB), 10th SB 2005 Cons.winner, #181 ATP
Matteo DONATI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 winner, #205 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #255 ATP
Adrian BODMER (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #651 ATP
Neven KRIVOKUCA (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #955 ATP (Aug 2018)

GIRLS
Donna VEKIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #25 WTA
Irina Maria BARA (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #162 WTA
Jana FETT (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #268 WTA
Tena LUKAS (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #271 WTA
Olga IANCHUK (UKR), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #310 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #452 WTA
Karin KENNEL (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #621 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #673 WTA
Oana Georgetta SIMION (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #700 WTA

2006 – 11th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 11th SB 2006 winner, #144 ATP

GIRLS
Belinda BENCIC (SUI), 11th SB 2006, #21 WTA
Katie BOULTER (UK), 11th SB 2006, #89 WTA
Dejana *RADANOVIC*(SRB), 11th SB 2006, #217 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC (SRB), 11th SB 2006, #246 WTA
Deborah CHIESA (ITA), 11th SB 2006, #294 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS (BiH), 11th SB 2006 quarterf., #486 WTA
Pia CUK (SVN) – 11th SB 2006, #522 WTA

2007 – 12th Smrikva Bowl and 6th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lloyd HARRIS (RSA), ,12th SB 2007, #95 ATP
Miguel SEMMLER (ESP), 12th SB 2007, #514 ATP (Nov 2017)
Bogdan BORZA (ROU), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #674 ATP (Jun 2018)

GIRLS
Ivana JOROVIC (SRB), 12th SB 2007, #100 WTA
Jessica PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #311 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK (SLO), 12th SB 2007 semif., #386 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO (ESP), 12th SB 2007 player – #501 WTA
Ana KONJUH (CRO), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #539 WTA
Chiara GRIMM (SUI), 12th SB 2007 quarterf., #539 WTA (Jul 2017)
Tatiana PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #555 WTA

“Little Mo” TEAM
Tommy PAUL (USA), 6th “Little Mo”/SB, #200 ATP

IN 2008 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 5 CONTINENTS AND TURNED INTO A WORLD TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2008 – 13th Smrikva Bowl and 7th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gian Marco MORONI (ITA), 13th SB 2008, #231 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM (EGY), 13th SB 2008, #406 ATP
Andrea GUERRIERI (ITA), 13th SB 2008 semif., #798 ATP (Jul 2018)
Sven LAH (SLO), 13th SB 2008, #1101 ATP (Jul 2018)

GIRLS
Viktoria KUZMOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008 semif., #44 WTA
Gabriela *TAYLOR*(UK), 13th SB 2008, #282 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN (UK), 13th SB 2008 runner up, #313 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008, #378 WTA
Nina ALIBALIC (AUS), 13th SB 2008, #475 WTA (Aug 2016)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ingrid NEEL (USA), 7th “Little Mo”/SB, #726 WTA

IN 2009 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND 1 NEW CONTINENT THEREFORE REACHED THE TOTAL OF 40 COUNTRIES AND 6 CONTINENTS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2009 – 14th Smrikva Bowl and 8th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Alex DE MINAUR (AUS), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #25 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC (SRB), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #88 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN (AUS), 14th SB 2009 Cons.winner, #118 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA (ESP), 14th SB 2009 semif., #172 ATP
Patrik RIKL (CZE), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #544 ATP
Gabi Adrian BOITAN (ROM), 14th SB 2009, #832 ATP (Sep 2018)
Karlo KRANIC (CRO), 14th SB 2009, #1263 ATP (Jul 2018)
Moritz THIEM (AUT), 14th SB 2009,#1394 ATP (Nov 2018)

GIRLS
Katie SWAN (UK), 14th SB 2009 winner, #166 WTA
Andrea Amalia ROSCA (ROU), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #240 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ (TUR), 14th SB 2009 player, #338 WTA
Haruna ARAKAWA (JPN), 14th SB 2009, #466 WTA
Seone MENDEZ (AUS), 14th SB 2009, #508 WTA
Angela FITA BOLUDA (ESP), 14th SB 2009, #843 WTA (Aug 2018)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ashley LAHEY (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #529 WTA
Michaela GORDON (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #768 WTA

IN 2010 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 49 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2010 – 15th Smrikva Bowl and 9th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Nicola KUHN (ESP), 15th SB 2010 winner, #274 ATP
Tomas MACHAC (CZE), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #534 ATP (Dec 2018)
Yshai OLIEL (ISR), 15th SB 2010 semif., #564 ATP (Apr 2018)
Rimpei KAWAKAMI (JPN), 15th SB 2010, #929 ATP (Dec 2018)
Damien WENGER (SUI), 15th SB 2010, #1553 ATP (Dec 2018)
Filippo MORONI (ITA), 15th SB 2010, #1605 ATP (May 2018)

GIRLS
Paula ARIAS MANJON (ESP), 15th SB 2010 runner up, #838 WTA
Benedetta IVALDI (ITA), 15th SB 2010, #838 WTA
Kristina NOVAK (SLO), 15th SB 2010 semif., #921 WTA (Dec 2018)
Ania HERTEL (POL), 15th SB 2010, #974 WTA (Nov 2018)
Irina CANTOS SIEMERS (BEL), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #1048 WTA (Aug 2018)
Mihaela Lorena MARCULESCU (ROU), 15th SB 2010, #1219 WTA (Jul 2017)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Claire LIU (USA), 9th “Little Mo”/SB, #145 WTA

IN 2011 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 54 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2011 – 16th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Duje AJDUKOVIC (CRO), 16th SB 2011 winner, #754 ATP (Dec 2018)
Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA (ESP), 16th SB 2011 quarterf., #9 ITF
Eric VANSHELBOIM (UKR), 16th SB 2011, #36 ITF
Cezar CRETU (ROU), 16th SB 2011, #98 ITF
Mihailo POPOVIC (SRB), 16th SB 2011 runner up, #302 ITF
Marco FURLANETTO (ITA), 16th SB 2011, #313 ITF
Makary ADAMEK (POL), 16th SB 2011, #425 ITF

GIRLS
Olga DANILOVIC (SRB), 16th SB 2011 winner, #120 WTA
Alexandra VECIC (GER), 16th SB 2011, #732 WTA
Betina TOKAC (TUR), 16th SB 2011 semif., #1141 WTA (Apr 2018)
Andjela SKROBONJA (SRB), 16th SB 2011 player, #130 ITF
Oana Smaranda CORNEANU (ROU), 16th SB 2011, #207 ITF
Iva ZELIC (CRO), 16th SB quarterf., #406 ITF

IN 2012 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 4 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 58 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION… and for the first time in the quarterfinals there were still five continents represented: AFRICA, ASIA, AMERICA, OCENIA and EUROPE

2012 – 17th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lorenzo MUSETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #595 ATP
Alibek KACHMAZOV (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #47 ITF
Sebastian GIMA (ROU), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #138 ITF
Goran ZIVOTIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 winner, #172 ITF
Mikolaj LORENS (POL), 17th SB 2012, #205 ITF
Michael Francis EALA (PHI), 17th SB 2012, #225 ITF
Piotr PAWLAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #229 ITF
Peter ALAM (UK), 17th SB 2012, #417 ITF
Borna DEVALD (CRO), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #526 ITF
Viktor JOVIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 semif., #586 ITF
Felix NORDBY (NOR), 17th SB 2012, #662 ITF
Drazen PETROVIC (BiH), 17th SB 2012, #1832 ITF

GIRLS
Zoe KRUGER (RSA), 17th SB 2012 semif., #526 WTA
Helene PELLICANO (MLT), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #711 WTA
Himari SATO (JPN), 17th SB 2012 winner, #838 WTA
Kristyna LAVICKOVA (CZE), 17th SB 2012, #46 ITF
Charlotte OWENSBY (USA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #84 ITF
Pia LOVRIC (SLO), 17th SB 2012 semif., #98 ITF
Julie BELGRAVER (FRA), 17th SB 2012, #97 ITF
Weronika BASZAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #113 ITF
Francesca CURMI (MLT), 17th SB 2012, #117 ITF
Maria TIMOFEEVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #118 ITF
Avelina SAYFETDINOVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #189 ITF
Živa FALKNER (SLO), 17th SB 2012, #226 ITF
Matilde PAOLETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #260 ITF
Luisa MEYER AUF DER HEIDE (GER), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #393 ITF

IN 2013 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 63 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2013 – 18th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA (ESP), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #597 ATP
Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE (DEN), 18th SB 2013, #27 ITF
Hamad MEDJEDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013 semif., #91 ITF
Luca NARDI (ITA), 18th SB 2013, #112 ITF
Jerome KYM (SUI), 18th SB 2013, #249 ITF
Stefan POPOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #302 ITF
Alejandro TURRIZIANI ALVAREZ (ESP), 18th SB 2013 winner, #604 ITF
Daniel RINCON (ESP), 18th SB 2013 semif., #623 ITF
Adi DAGAN (ISR), 18th SB 2013, #713 ITF
Piotr KUSIEWICZ (POL), 18th SB 2013, #814 ITF
Danilo RAICEVIC (MNE), 18th SB 2013, #1294 ITF
Fran MITROVIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #1832 ITF
Filip MANDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #1872 ITF
Gal EMERSIC POTOCNIK (SVN), 18th SB 2013, #58 ETA U16
Vojtech VEIGERT (CZE), 18th SB 2013, #273 ETA U16
Lovre ERCEG (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #340 ETA U16
Bartol BORSE (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #561 ETA U16

GIRLS
Antonia RUZIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #176 ITF
Selin Lidya SEPKEN (TUR), 18th SB 2013 semif., #237 ITF
Noa KRZNARIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013 winner, #264 ITF
Kyle BILCHEV (UK), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #612 ITF
Andjela LOPICIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #737 ITF
Kornelia HUNCAK (CRO), 18th SB 2013 semif., #371 ETA U16

IN 2014 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 2 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 65 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2014 – 19th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Mili POLJICAK (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #705 ITF
Luka MIKRUT (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #1349 ITF
Raffaele MARIANI (SUI), 19th SB 2014, #2311 ITF
Kalin IVANOVSKI (MKD), 19th SB 2014, #40 ETA U16
Bor ARTNAK (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #62 ETA U16
Svetlin KEREMEDCHIEV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #104 ETA U16
Vilius GAUBAS (LIT), 19th SB 2014, #133 ETA U16
Matija SAMARDZIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #149 58 ETA U16
Dragomir DRAGANOV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #178 ETA U16
Nikola ZEKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #196 ETA U16
Lun OBRUL (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #213 ETA U16
Noa VUKADIN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #213 ETA U16
Carlos GUERRERO ALVAREZ (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #226 ETA U16
Ivan SODAN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #237 ETA U16
Enrico BALDISSERRI (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #273 ETA U16
Dan Vasile DUTA (ROU), 19th SB 2014, #273 ETA U16
William JANSEN (GBR), 19th SB 2014, #315 ETA U16
Pedro RODENAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #377 ETA U16
Patrick BRADY (THI), 19th SB 2014 winner, #381 ETA U16
Krsta PETROVIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #643 ETA U16
Danil SOBOLIEV (UKR), 19th SB 2014 semif., #793 ETA U16
Ante CIKOJEVIC (GER), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #1327 ETA U16

GIRLS
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014 semif., #99 ITF
Aliona FALEI (BLR), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #223 ITF
Joelle STEUR (GER), 19th SB 2014, #281 ITF
Tea LUKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014 winner, #397 ITF
Patricie KUBIKOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014, #400 ITF
Denislava GLUSHKOVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #653 ITF
Patricija PAUKSTYTE (LTU), 19th SB 2014, #1011 ITF
Stela PEEVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #1087 ITF
Lucija CIRIC BAGARIC (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #1168 ITF
Emma VALLETTA (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #1190 ITF
Divna RATKOVIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #1943 ITF
Suana TUCAKOVIC (BIH), 19th SB 2014 semif., #2287 ITF
Neriya YONA (ISR), 19th SB 2014, #2287 ITF
Petja DRAME (SLO), 19th SB 2014, #171 ETA U16
Carolina GOMEZ (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #251 ETA U16
Anna KANTOR (HUN), 19th SB 2014, #265 ETA U16
Sarah MUELLER (GER), 19th SB 2014, #367 ETA U16
Emma RIZZETTO (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #371 ETA U16
Kyoka KUBO (JPN), 19th SB 2014, #402 ETA U16
Irene ARTIGAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #470 ETA U16
Veronica SIRCI (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #515 ETA U16

IN 2015 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 73 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2015 – 20th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Branko DJURIC (MNE), 20th SB 2015 winner, #6 ETA U14
Marc MAJDANDZIC (GER), 20th SB 2015 semif., #13 ETA U14
Dino PRIZMIC (CRO), 20th SB 2015 quarterf., #15 ETA U14
Mikalai BANKOU (BLR), 20th SB 2015, #29 ETA U14
Aleksa PISARIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #53 ETA U14
Walker ALLEN (USA), 20th SB 2015, #65 ETA U14
Matej DODIG (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #68 ETA U14
Giacomo NOSEI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #75 ETA U14
Moritz LESJAK (AUT), 20th SB 2015, #92 ETA U14
Filippo ROMANO (ITA) , 20th SB 2015, #97 ETA U14
Daniel ZIMMERMANN (AUT), 20th SB 2015, #102 ETA U14
Federico BONDIOLI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #107 ETA U14
Ofek SHIMANOV (ISR), 20th SB 2015, #109 ETA U14
Dimitar PENCHEV (BGR), 20th SB 2015, #129 ETA U14
Andrea MEDURI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #130 ETA U14
Matic KRIZNIK (SVN), 20th SB 2015, #150 ETA U14
Jose Aless HERNANDEZ (ESP), 20th SB 2015 semif., #566 ETA U14
Iker SEVILLA (ESP), 20th SB 2015 runner up , #566 ETA U14

GIRLS
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 20th SB 2015 semif., #99 ITF – Les Petits As 2019 winner
Alexandra EALA (PHI), 20th SB 2015 , #125 ITF – Les Petits As 2018 winner
Lola RADIVOJEVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #15 ETA U14
Mara GAE (ROU), 20th SB 2015 semif. ,#17 ETA U14
Alena KASATKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015 winner, #19 ETA U14
Petra MARCINKO (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #20 ETA U14
Klio Maria IOANNOU (CYP), 20th SB 2015, #26 ETA U14
Malwina ROWINSKA (POL), 20th SB 2015, #28 ETA U14
Vanesa DANKO (HUN), 20th SB 2015, #36 ETA U14
Leticia TAROCCO (CRO), 20th SB 2015 winner, #41 ETA U14
Anastasia GRECHKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015, #54 ETA U14
Anastasia NIKOLOVA (BGR), 20th SB 2015 winner, #59 ETA U14
Anja PETKOVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015 runner up, #74 ETA U14
June BJORK (SWE), 20th SB 2015, #90 ETA U14
Tea ZIVIC (FRA), 20th SB 2015, #90 ETA U14
Ariana GEERLINGS (ESP), 20th SB 2015, #98 ETA U14
Jaquelyn OGUNWALE (UK), 20th SB 2015 winner, #100 ETA U14
Tena RAJKI (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #110 ETA U14
Adel PILOSYAN (RUS), 20th SB 2015, #120 ETA U14
Lara STOJANOVSKI (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #357 ETA U14
Tara SLADAKOVIC (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #761 ETA U14

IN 2016 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 79 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2016 – 21st Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Antonio VOLJAVEC (CRO), 21st SB 2016, #37 ETA U14
Tomasz BERKIETA (POL), 21st SB 2016, #50 ETA U14
Pavel MARINOV (BGR), 21st SB 2016, #56 ETA U14
Chris SPYROU (GRE), 21st SB 2016, #60 ETA U14
Fran RAKONIC (CRO), 21st SB 2016, #62 ETA U14
Andreas TIMINI (CYP), 21st SB 2016, #74 ETA U14
Dilhan WASANTHA (GRB), 21st SB 2016, #82 ETA U14
Petr BRUNCLIK (CZE), 21st SB 2016 semif., #97 ETA U14
Nikolai BARSUKOV (GER), 21st SB 2016, #125 ETA U14
Anas MAZDRASHKI (BGR), 21st SB 2016, #132 ETA U14
Max STENZER (GER), 21st SB 2016, #137 ETA U14
Rafael SEGADO ESTEVE (ESP) , 21st SB 2016, #144 ETA U14
Kaylan BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 winner – Auray 2018 winner, not ranked
Meecah BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 semif., not ranked
Luis Garcia PAEZ (ESP), 21st SB 2016 runner up, not ranked

GIRLS
Mia RISTIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016 semif. #58 ETA U14
Jovana GRUJIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016 CD winner, #89 ETA U14
Dunja MARIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016, #108 ETA U14
Ela Nala MILIC (SVN), 21st SB 2016 winner, #114 ETA U14
Camilia SAMEL DRUZ (FRA), 21st SB 2016 runner up, #373 ETA U14
Yufei REN (CHN), 21st SB 2016 semif. , not ranked

IN 2017 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 85 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2017 – 22nd Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Roben GAVANI (BGR), 22nd SB 2017 winner
William REJCHTMAN VINCIGUERRA (SWE), 22nd SB 2017 runner up
Duje MARKOVINA (CRO), 22nd SB 2017 semif.
Štepan SKLENIČKA (CZE), 22nd SB 2017 semif.
Benjamin GUSIC WAN (UK), 22nd SB 2017 – Auray 2019 winner

GIRLS
Rositsa DENCHEVA (BGR), 22nd SB 2017 winner
Shanice ROIGNOT (FRA), 22nd SB 2017 runner up – Auray 2019 winner
Chu LI-YA (TWN), 22nd SB 2017 semif.
Mai GOTO (JPN), 22nd SB 2017 semif.

IN 2018 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 87 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2018 – 23rd Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Vito DARDERI (ARG), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Niels McDONALD (GER), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Žiga ŠEŠKO (SLO), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Riki IMAI (JPN), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

GIRLS
Alisa OKTIABREVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Iva LAKIC (MNE), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Daria KORESHKOVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Zlatina ANGELOVA (BUL), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

29/03/19

The possibility to candidate players for the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 edition is Closed. The candidates who presented their candidacy are pleased to read the following...

Smrikva Bowl is traditionally limited to 100 players…

For the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 annual the applications received exceeded by far the number of total places available of 96 players in total (48 + 48 Draws)… and the right to bring forward the deadline date was executed for the sixth time in the Smrikva Bowl history.

The candidates are representing six continents and over 40 different countries…

As indicated in the application instructions: preference will have top players from each country…

All the candidates who presented their candidacies by the deadline date will receive the confirmation e-mail of their acceptance or impossibility to invite them to play before April 8th, 2019.

The players that do not receive any information e-mail by the 8th of April please inform via e-mail: [email protected]

Please visit www.smrikve.com to learn more about Smrikve, Istria from Smrikve, Smrikva Bowl, one of the most important under 10 tennis tournaments in the World, and Villa Smrikve, for your accommodation with swimming pool in Stinjan (Pula – Pola) if you decide to spent your holiday in Istria, Croatia.

28/03/19

On Ambassador's Day, 21st of September 2018, the selection for the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 generation started... and as of today we have crossed by far the maximum of the talented players we can confirm and the 2019 candidacy process is going to close...

Since 2010 the selection process for the Smrikva Bowl candidates starts on 21st of September… Smrikva Bowl Ambassadors Day…

I am pleased to share just few words written back in time why that date… that may be of interest for the new Smrikva generation… :)

Smrikve, September 2010

The International Day of Peace, also known as the World Peace Day, occurs annually on September 21st and this day has been elected to be also the Smrikva Bowl Ambassadors’ Day.

It is dedicated to peace, or specifically the absence of war, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone. It is observed by many people. For the first time this holiday was celebrated in 1981.

The Smrikva Bowl Ambassadors Day, although celebrated on the same day as the World Peace Day, is dedicated to civilization, intergenerational responsibility and tennis. Without civil society in a modern world there is no guarantee for peace.

In 1981 the United Nations General Assembly declared, in a resolution sponsored by the United Kingdom and Costa Rica, the third Tuesday of September (the opening day of regular sessions of the General Assembly) as the International Day of Peace devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace and civilization values.

In 2001, the day was changed from the third Tuesday to specifically the twenty-first day of September. A new resolution was passed by the General Assembly, sponsored by the United Kingdom (giving credit to Peace One Day) and Costa Rica (the sponsors of the original day) to give the Day of Peace a fixed date and declare it as a global ceasefire day.

In 1991, on September 21st, I left Smrikve for Milan, it was the war time in my country, 5 years before, on the same day, in 1986, I sailed with a boat to Dubrovnik with school friends living a nice life time memory experience.

Having our calendar year 365 days if we live for some time and create our own experience we learn that the same day can remind us something nice and something not nice… it is a circle…

Not nice could be compared to a mistake in tennis… we learn from the mistakes. They help us understand what is not good or what we do not do properly…

To end this comment I am pleased to repeat words of a Nobel Prize for Peace who was guest speaker to one of Ambrosetti’s Young Leader Group meetings. It is a tradition that every guest dedicate few words to the Group and he wrote down the following:

“The future is always in a minority. Yet the history of the future is more important than the history of the past. It is for the old to remember the past. It is for the young to build the world of tomorrow.

Do it! You can build a world without wars. You can build a new humanity.”

Everything around us lives in a delicate equilibrium and with intelligence we should try to understand it and respect it. The knowledge, human curiosity and will to learn are important. They are all parts of the civilization path.

Shimon Peres used in his note the statement: “Do it!” thus reminded me Yoda’s wisdom words when he shares his knowledge with young Jedi: “Try no. Do or do not “ :)

If people believe in the future there is future. If people do not believe in the future there is no future.

Miodrag Bozovic

25/03/19

Only 4 days away from the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 generation candidacy process completion... and the story of the Old Olive Trees...

4 days away from the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 generation candidacy process completion… I am pleased to share part of the story related to the old Smrikva Bowl Ambassadors Olive Trees…

This year will be planted the 15th olive tree… and 23 years old Smrikva living tree tennis track record, as of March 25th, 2019 includes the following:

- 30 junior GRAND SLAM titles conquered by 23 players
- 30 professional ATP/WTA titles
- 45 players reached TOP 200 ATP/WTA ranking => 21 players reached TOP 100 ATP/WTA ranking => 5 players reached TOP 20 ATP/WTA => 2 players reached TOP 10 ATP/WTA ranking
- 150+ SB players received scholarships to study in the US & play tennis.

In 2005, for the 10th Smrikva Bowl anniversary, we started a tradition of planting an Olive tree. The tree that we planted for the 10th Smrikva Bowl is over 150 years old and happens to come from Spain.

During the ceremony, every Ambassador put a tiny piece of land close to the root of the Olive tree and say his or her name. Every year a new old Olive tree receive the Ambassadors’ names from many countries and continents. So far Smrikva Bowl olive oil have reached 87 countries and six continents…

The Olive tree is a symbol of peace. The age of the tree is a symbol of intergenerational responsibility. Every person is born without knowing anything about life on this earth and it is the responsibility of every generation to learn to preserve all that each of us is born with and allow future generations to enjoy the beauty of life, the sunsets and the seasons of the earth.

Very often while thinking about old olive trees in Smrikve I like to recall Mufasa teaching Simba the circle of life story… and below is part of a letter written a decade ago thinking about Smrikva Bowl Ambassadors and their Olive Trees…

Smrikve, March 2008

AMBASSADORS’ OLD OLIVE TREE AND THE CIRCLE OF LIFE…

The Lion King cartoon is an artwork and most of the life messages one can find in it are in line with the Smrikva Bowl. They are in line with the message of the Ambassadors’ Olive Tree; they are in line with the values of friendship and love; they are in line with empathy. Love, friendship and empathy are all Cosmopolitan values per excellence, as far as people and humanity are concerned.

The relationship between Mufasa, Sarabi and Simba reminds me of both: parents and family love, but also about the intergenerational responsability.

Timon, Pumbaa and Simba relationship reminds me about love between friends. Pumbaa also make me think abuout empathy, intuition and loyalty. The relationship between Simba and Nola reminds me again about the importance of love. Rafiki, the wise old baboo, with his many centuries old tree reminds me about the importance of knowledge and experience of the older. There are many other particular moments that every person on its own, based on his or her own life experience, discover by watching these artworks.

You might be interested to know that most of the characters’ names in this cartoon have a particular meaning in Swahili language: Simba means “lion”; Nala means “gift”, and love is for me one of the greatest gifts that people can receive and give during their life; Sarabi means “mirage”; Pumbaa means “dull-witted” or “stunned”; and Rafiki means “friend” :). These names with their meanings make me think of the American Indians and the way they used to give the names to their people.

Every person is born without knowing anything about life on this earth and it is the responsibility of every generation to understand and to learn, to preserve all that each of us is born with. When Mufasa was explaining to Simba that is not easy to be the King… a good King should know that everything around us lives in a delicate equilibrium and with intelligence we should try to understand it and respect it. The intergenerational responsibility alone will allow future generations to enjoy the beauty of life, the sunsets and the seasons of the earth. Enjoy the circle of life.

I am pleased to repeat words of a Nobal Prize for Peace who was guest speaker to one of Ambrosetti’s Young Leader Group meetings. It is a tradition that every guest dedicate few words to the Group and he wrote down the following

Do it! You can build a world without wars. You can build a new humanity.”

Everything around us lives in a delicate equilibrium and with intelligence we should try to understand it and respect it. It is true that every generation face new challenges but there are many examples in the past how the old generations managed and solved particular problems and this is way knowledge, human curiosity and will to learn are important.

Miodrag Bozovic

19/03/19

Only 10 days away from the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 generation candidacy process completion...

I am pleased to share the story of the Smrikva Bowl theater that for over two decades has been gathering the talents from all over the World…

We are less than two weeks away from closing the candidacy process for the 24th annual and another year full of talents is envisaged again… and I am pleased to share the following story with the new generation candidates…

Smrikve, January 2010

INSPIRING… SMRIKVA…

… an inspiring tennis festival… When I think of Smrikva Bowl I try to imagine it as a theater where every year we work hard to set a stage where the world’s talents can gather… Every year we gather all these different actors, great talents, very special kids, arriving from different cultures, having different dreams,…

We set the stage and later on they are in charge with their will, dreams and hard work… they are the ones who write the most different stories…

Smrikva Bowl is still very young tournament but I would like to think that some of these kids will write nice and inspiring stories in most different professional fields.

I also know that according to the statistics only few of the kids participating Smrikva Bowl will make it to become top professional tennis players, but I like to think that they will make it in other professional fields they choose in their lives.

I was recently reading Andre Agassi’s book and through the whole book he was repeating to friends and people meeting during his life that he doesn’t like tennis thus it seems to me that he never had the option to choose, but in end he ended up being the Champion and according to Luke Jensen a person with big heart and very good friend.

I will never know how many kids playing Smrikva Bowl are playing it because their parents would like them to become professional tennis players and how much of them play it because they enjoy the game.

What I do know is that any kind of sport can help kids in their growth and I also know that people that do excel in any field require total dedication and a lot of sacrifice to reach the excellence.

When I think of Andre’s words of not loving what he was doing for most of the time of his life I start thinking of other 90% of people around the World that make for living doing jobs they do not like, but “La vita e’ bella” Roberto Benigni would say and tennis helped Andre to grow up.

There is one part in the book that I liked a lot… it is about inspiration, faith and what does it mean to be a good coach… to have the right word in the right moment… this part is related with Gil… and is about people that do believe in other people and help them to write their life stories and to write their own one…

Here are Gil’s words reported by Andre in his book when he accepted to coach him:

“I’m not one of those people who expresses or articulates feelings very well, but from now on, just know this: It’s on, man. It is on.

You know what I’m saying? We’are in a fight, and you can count on me until the last man is standing. Somewhere up there is a star with your name on it. I might not be able to help you find it, but I’ve got pretty strong shoulders, and you can stand on my shoulders while you’re looking for that star. You hear? For as long as you want. Stand on my shoulders and reach, man. Reach.”

In every life there are people that influence what we do and how we do it.

The Smrikva Bowl festival would like to inspire its players and Ambassadors to believe in their dreams and work hard to reach them.

Sport and music are in general good educators and the vision of sport preferred in Smrikve is the one Nelson Mandela once said:

“Sport has the power to change the world, the power to inspire and the power to unite people in a way little else can – it is an instrument of peace.”

Miodrag Bozovic

10/03/19

Smrikva Bowl Mission like a Dream...

Not many years from now there will be much more Smrikva Bowl players among professional players… as of March 4th 2019: 45 players reached TOP 200 ATP/WTA ranking… 19 players reached TOP 100 ATP/WTA ranking… 5 players reached TOP 20 ATP/WTA… 2 players reached TOP 10 ATP/WTA ranking… and 75 players are this week holding a ATP/WTA ranking…

Their track record includes: 30 junior GRAND SLAM titles and 29 professional ATP/WTA titles…

There will be much more Smrikva Bowl players that thanks to their racket skills will got the scholarship to play in the prestige Universities all around the World… so far 150+ players got scholarship to study play tennis in the US…

… and there will be much more who will graduate all around the World…

Smrikva Bowl dream is that may they all stand together for something “MORE THAN TENNIS”…

“If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.”

Smrikva Bowl mission is to inspire, develop and spread cosmopolitan values. Love, friendship and empathy are cosmopolitan values per excellence for people and humanity…

CULTURE, CHILDREN, SPORT and MUSIC are part of the Smrikva Bowl idea of the cosmopolitan world. It is a matter of civilization …

A wise wind, product of imagination, once whispered… “Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.” (M.Y.)… and fairy tales seems to help that beauty…

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” (A.E.)…

Usually in tennis game it does not matter what goes wrong but your reaction to it…

Fear and anger are for the brain the same as cramps for the muscles… and as Yoda noted “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”… like in tennis, so similar seems to be life…

There are different ways to look at sport. There are different ways to look at music, culture, love and also to children.

The vision of sport preferred in Smrikve can be described and extended to: culture, music and children using the following Nelson Mandela – Madiba’s words:

“Sport has the power to change the world, the power to inspire and the power to unite people in a way little else can – it is an instrument of peace.”

04/03/19

Top Smrikva Bowl and "LM"/SB players on ATP, WTA, ITF and European under 14 and 16 ranking lists (update March 2019)

Former top Smrikva Bowl players that reached certain results on the professional ranking list and the top Smrikva Bowl players current ranking.

As of March 4th, 2019 their track record includes the following:
- 30 junior GRAND SLAM titles conquered by 23 players
- 29 professional ATP/WTA titles
- 45 players reached TOP 200 ATP/WTA ranking => 19 players reached TOP 100 ATP/WTA ranking => 5 players reached TOP 20 ATP/WTA => 2 players reached TOP 10 ATP/WTA ranking
- 150+ SB players received scholarships to study in the US & play tennis.

• 24 TOP 200 WTA Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #7 WTA (Feb 2016)
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #20 WTA (Jul 2017)
Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #25 WTA (Feb 2019)
Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #31 WTA (Jan 2019)
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- # 41 WTA (Feb 2019)
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #43 WTA (Mar 2019)
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #83 WTA (Feb 2019)
Ivana LISJAK – 1997 winner – #95 WTA (Jun 2006)
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #96 WTA (Oct 2018)
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #97 WTA (Oct 2017)

Ivana JOROVIC – 2007 player – #107 on WTA (Mar 2019)
Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #121 WTA (Feb 2017)
Clair LIU – 2010 “LM”/SB player -#137 WTA (Jan 2019)
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #139 WTA (Aug 2018)
Deborah CHIESA – 2006 player – #143 WTA (Jun 2018)
Martina TREVISAN – 2003 player – #144 WTA (Aug 2017)
Tereza MRDEZA – 2000 winner – #150 WTA (Oct 2015)
Katie SWAN – 2009 winner – #163 WTA (Oct 2018)
Gabriela TAYLOR – 2008 player – #164 WTA (Oct 2018)
Dejana RADANOVIC – 2006 player – #187 WTA (Jul 2018)

• 21 TOP 200 ATP Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #4 ATP (Nov 2017)
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #12 ATP (Nov 2018)
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #24 ATP (Mar 2019)
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #32 ATP (Mar 2019)
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #92 ATP (Mar 2019)
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 quarterf.- #118 ATP (Jan 2019)
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 CD winner – #123 (Feb 2019)
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #143 ATP (Oct 2017)
Gianluigi QUINZI – 2006 winner – # 146 ATP (Dec 2018)
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #146 ATP (Mar 2017)

Tommy PAUL – 2007 “LM”/SB player – #149 ATP (Jan 2018)
Matteo DONATI – 2005 winner – #159 ATP (Jul 2015)
Javier MARTI – 2002 winner – #170 ATP (Apr 2012)
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 semi – #181 ATP (Mar 2019)
Nino SERDARUSIC – 2005 player – #192 ATP (Aug 2018)
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #196 (Apr 2018)

As of 4th of February 2019 the ranking summary of the very TOP former Smrikva Bowl boys and girls is the following:

• 53 WTA players

Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #23 WTA
Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #26 WTA
Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #38 WTA
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #43 WTA
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- #44 WTA
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #85 WTA
Ivana JOROVIC – 2007 player – #107 WTA
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #115 WTA
Claire LIU – 2010 player – #137 WTA
Martina TREVISAN – 2003 player – #162 WTA

Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #165 WTA
Katie SWAN – 2009 winner – #177 WTA
Tereza MRDEZA – 2000 winner – #193 WTA
Dejana RADANOVIC – 2006 player – #196 WTA
Andreea ROSCA – 2009 player – #244 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #246 WTA
Gabriela TAYLOR – 2008 player – #251 WTA
Tena LUKAS – 2005 player – #268 WTA
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #272 WTA
Deborah CHIESA – 2006 player – #280 WTA

Jessica PIERI – 2007 player – #306 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN – 2009 player – #307 WTA
Olga IANCHUK – 2005 runner up – #320 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ – 2009 player – #331 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA – 2008 player – #360 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK – 2007 player – #384 WTA
Martina CAREGARO – 2002 winner – #398 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO – 2005 player – #437 WTA
Haruna ARAKAWA – 2008 player – #474 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS – 2006 quarterfinalist – #485 WTA

Miriam BULGARU – 2008 player – #486 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO – 2007 player – #496 WTA
Lea BOSKOVIC – 2009 player – #502 WTA
Seone MENDEZ – 2009 player – #509 WTA
Pia CUK – 2006 player – #520 WTA
Ashley LAHEY – 2009 player – #528 WTA
Angelica MORATELLI – 2004 player – #532 WTA
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #538 WTA
Zoe KRUGER – 2012 semif. – #539 WTA
Tatiana PIERI – 2007 player – #555 WTA

Karin KENNEL – 2005 player – #580 WTA
Iva PRIMORAC – 2006 player – #621 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI – 2005 player – #666 WTA
Oana Georgeta SIMION – 2005 player – #701 WTA
Helen PELLICANO – 2012 player -#712 WTA
Ingrid NEEL – 2008 player – #723 WTA
Alexandra VECIC – 2011 player – 732 WTA
Michaela GORDON – 2009 player – #768 WTA
Vladica BABIC – 2005 player – #769 WTA
Anita HUSARIC – 2004 player – #769 WTA

Paula ARIAS MANJON – 2010 runner up – #836 WTA
Benedetta IVALDI – 2010 player – #836 WTA
Himari SATO – 2012 winner – #836 WTA

• 22 ATP players

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #8 ATP
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #12 ATP
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #24 ATP
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #32 ATP
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #92 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #130 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 cd winner – #131 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI – 2006 winner – #147 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 semi – #181 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #184 ATP

Tommy PAUL – 2007 player – #203 ATP
Matteo DONATI – 2005 winner – #208 ATP
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #223 ATP
Gian Marco MORONI – 2008 player – #228 ATP
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #248 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC – 2005 player – #253 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM – 2008 player – #405 ATP
William BLUMBERG 2008 player – #442 ATP
Robin KERN – 2002 player – #480 ATP
Patrik RIKL – 2009 player – #547 ATP

Nik RAZBORSEK – 2003 player – #597 ATP
Adrian BODMER – 2005 player – #651 ATP

• 7 players TOP 100 ATP RACE TO MILAN NEXT GEN

Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #2 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 player – #9 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #11 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 player – #14 ATP
Nicola KUHN – 2010 player – #16 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM – 2008 player – #46 ATP
Gian Marco MORONI – 2008 player – #50 ATP

NEXT GEN SB PLAYERS:
2017: Borna CORIC and Gianluigi QUINZI (WC)
2018: Alex DE MINAUR (runner up) and Lloyd HARRIS (invited)

• 9 boys and 7 girls… in total 16 players are in TOP 100 ITF

BOYS:
- #2 Lorenzo MUSETTI Junior USOPEN 2018 runner up & junior AO2019 winner
- #7 Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA
- #28 Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE
- #38 Erik VANSHELBOIM
- #42 Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA
- #57 Flavio COBOLLI
- #59 Alibek KACHMAZOV
- #78 Roko HORVAT
- #83 Cezar CRETU
- #95 Luciano DARDERI

GIRLS:
- #56 Helen PELLICANO
- #72 Francesca CURMI
- #85 Charlotte OWENSBY
- #86 Kristyna LAVICKOVA
- #89 Pia LOVRIC
- #99 Himari SATO
- #100 Weronika BASZAK

• 4 boys and 1 girl are in TOP 10 ETA under 16 – (Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE #1, Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA #2, Stefan POPOVIC #5, Antonia RUZIC #5)

• 1 boy and 1 girl are in TOP 10 ETA under 14 – (Branko DJURIC #5; Linda FRUHVIRTOVA #1)

Tereza MRDEZA (CRO), 5th SB 2000 winner, #193 WTA

Petra MARTIC (CRO), 6th SB 2001 winner, #38 WTA

IN 2002 SMRIKVA BOWL STARTED TO BE A EUROPEAN TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2002 – 7th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Federico GAIO (ITA), 7th SB 2002, #223 ATP
Robin KERN (GER), 7th SB 2002, #480 ATP
Javier MARTI (ESP), 7th SB 2002 winner, #170 ATP (Apr 2012)
Luca MARGAROLI (SUI), 7th SB 2002, #140 ATP doubles
Ivan SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #296 ATP doubles
Matej SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #332 ATP doubles

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO), 7th SB 2002 runner up, #44 WTA
Martina CAREGARO (ITA), 7th SB 2002 winner, #398 WTA

2003 – 8th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Dominic THIEM (AUT), 8th SB 2003 winner, #8 ATP
Nik RAZBORSEK (SLO), 8th SB 2003, #597 ATP

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO),8th SB 2003 semif., #44 WTA
Martina TREVISAN (ITA), 8th SB 2003, #162 WTA

2004 – 9th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Miki JANKOVIC (SRB), 9th SB 2004 runner up, #256 ATP (Aug 2016)
Filip VEGER (CRO), 9th SB 2004 semif, #478 ATP (Feb 2015)
Nerman FATIC (BiH), 9th SB 2004 semif, #435 ATP (Dec 2018)

GIRLS
Angelica MORATELLI (ITA), 9th SB 2004, #532 WTA
Vladica BABIC (MNE), 9th SB 2004, #769 WTA
Giada CLERICI (ITA), 2004 player, #703 WTA (Sep 2015)

IN 2005 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 3 CONTINENTS

2005 – 10th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Borna CORIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #12 ATP
Laslo DJERE (SRB), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #32 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 semif., #147 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC (SRB), 10th SB 2005 Cons.winner, #184 ATP
Matteo DONATI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 winner, #208 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #253 ATP
Adrian BODMER (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #651 ATP
Neven KRIVOKUCA (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #955 ATP (Aug 2018)

GIRLS
Donna VEKIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #26 WTA
Irina Maria BARA (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #165 WTA
Tena LUKAS (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #268 WTA
Jana FETT (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #272 WTA
Olga IANCHUK (UKR), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #320 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #437 WTA
Karin KENNEL (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #580 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #666 WTA
Oana Georgetta SIMION (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #701 WTA

2006 – 11th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 11th SB 2006 winner, #147 ATP

GIRLS
Belinda BENCIC (SUI), 11th SB 2006, #23 WTA
Katie BOULTER (UK), 11th SB 2006, #85 WTA
Dejana *RADANOVIC*(SRB), 11th SB 2006, #196 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC (SRB), 11th SB 2006, #246 WTA
Deborah CHIESA (ITA), 11th SB 2006, #280 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS (BiH), 11th SB 2006 quarterf., #485 WTA
Pia CUK (SVN) – 11th SB 2006, #520 WTA

2007 – 12th Smrikva Bowl and 6th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lloyd HARRIS (RSA), ,12th SB 2007, #92 ATP
Miguel SEMMLER (ESP), 12th SB 2007, #514 ATP (Nov 2017)
Bogdan BORZA (ROU), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #674 ATP (Jun 2018)

GIRLS
Ivana JOROVIC (SRB), 12th SB 2007, #107 WTA
Jessica PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #306 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK (SLO), 12th SB 2007 semif., #384 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO (ESP), 12th SB 2007 player – #496 WTA
Ana KONJUH (CRO), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #538 WTA
Chiara GRIMM (SUI), 12th SB 2007 quarterf., #539 WTA (Jul 2017)
Tatiana PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #555 WTA

“Little Mo” TEAM
Tommy PAUL (USA), 6th “Little Mo”/SB, #203 ATP

IN 2008 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 5 CONTINENTS AND TURNED INTO A WORLD TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2008 – 13th Smrikva Bowl and 7th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gian Marco MORONI (ITA), 13th SB 2008, #228 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM (EGY), 13th SB 2008, #405 ATP
Andrea GUERRIERI (ITA), 13th SB 2008 semif., #798 ATP (Jul 2018)
Sven LAH (SLO), 13th SB 2008, #1101 ATP (Jul 2018)

GIRLS
Viktoria KUZMOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008 semif., #44 WTA
Gabriela *TAYLOR*(UK), 13th SB 2008, #251 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN (UK), 13th SB 2008 runner up, #307 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008, #360 WTA
Nina ALIBALIC (AUS), 13th SB 2008, #475 WTA (Aug 2016)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ingrid NEEL (USA), 7th “Little Mo”/SB, #723 WTA

IN 2009 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND 1 NEW CONTINENT THEREFORE REACHED THE TOTAL OF 40 COUNTRIES AND 6 CONTINENTS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2009 – 14th Smrikva Bowl and 8th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Alex DE MINAUR (AUS), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #24 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC (SRB), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #130 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN (AUS), 14th SB 2009 Cons.winner, #131 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA (ESP), 14th SB 2009 semif., #181 ATP
Patrik RIKL (CZE), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #547 ATP
Gabi Adrian BOITAN (ROM), 14th SB 2009, #832 ATP (Sep 2018)
Karlo KRANIC (CRO), 14th SB 2009, #1263 ATP (Jul 2018)
Moritz THIEM (AUT), 14th SB 2009,#1394 ATP (Nov 2018)

GIRLS
Katie SWAN (UK), 14th SB 2009 winner, #177 WTA
Andrea Amalia ROSCA (ROU), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #244 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ (TUR), 14th SB 2009 player, #331 WTA
Haruna ARAKAWA (JPN), 14th SB 2009, #474 WTA
Seone MENDEZ (AUS), 14th SB 2009, #509 WTA
Angela FITA BOLUDA (ESP), 14th SB 2009, #843 WTA (Aug 2018)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ashley LAHEY (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #528 WTA
Michaela GORDON (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #768 WTA

IN 2010 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 49 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2010 – 15th Smrikva Bowl and 9th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Nicola KUHN (ESP), 15th SB 2010 winner, #248 ATP
Tomas MACHAC (CZE), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #534 ATP (Dec 2018)
Yshai OLIEL (ISR), 15th SB 2010 semif., #564 ATP (Apr 2018)
Rimpei KAWAKAMI (JPN), 15th SB 2010, #929 ATP (Dec 2018)
Damien WENGER (SUI), 15th SB 2010, #1553 ATP (Dec 2018)
Filippo MORONI (ITA), 15th SB 2010, #1605 ATP (May 2018)

GIRLS
Paula ARIAS MANJON (ESP), 15th SB 2010 runner up, #836 WTA
Benedetta IVALDI (ITA), 15th SB 2010, #836 WTA
Kristina NOVAK (SLO), 15th SB 2010 semif., #921 WTA (Dec 2018)
Ania HERTEL (POL), 15th SB 2010, #974 WTA (Nov 2018)
Irina CANTOS SIEMERS (BEL), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #1048 WTA (Aug 2018)
Mihaela Lorena MARCULESCU (ROU), 15th SB 2010, #1219 WTA (Jul 2017)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Claire LIU (USA), 9th “Little Mo”/SB, #137 WTA

IN 2011 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 54 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2011 – 16th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Duje AJDUKOVIC (CRO), 16th SB 2011 winner, #754 ATP (Dec 2018)
Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA (ESP), 16th SB 2011 quarterf., #1036 ATP (Jul 2018)
Cezar CRETU (ROU), 16th SB 2011, #1580 ATP (Apr 2018)
Eric VANSHELBOIM (UKR), 16th SB 2011, #38 ITF
Mihailo POPOVIC (SRB), 16th SB 2011 runner up, #269 ITF
Marco FURLANETTO (ITA), 16th SB 2011, #289 ITF
Makary ADAMEK (POL), 16th SB 2011, #378 ITF

GIRLS
Olga DANILOVIC (SRB), 16th SB 2011 winner, #112 WTA
Alexandra VECIC (GER), 16th SB 2011, #731 WTA
Betina TOKAC (TUR), 16th SB 2011 semif., #1141 WTA (Apr 2018)
Andjela SKROBONJA (SRB), 16th SB 2011 player, #120 ITF
Oana Smaranda CORNEANU (ROU), 16th SB 2011, #198 ITF
Iva ZELIC (CRO), 16th SB quarterf., #279 ITF

2012 – 17th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lorenzo MUSETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #2 ITF
Alibek KACHMAZOV (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #59 ITF
Sebastian GIMA (ROU), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #129 ITF
Goran ZIVOTIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 winner, #160 ITF
Piotr PAWLAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #196 ITF
Michael Francis EALA (PHI), 17th SB 2012, #229 ITF
Mikolaj LORENS (POL), 17th SB 2012, #243 ITF
Viktor JOVIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 semif., #404 ITF
Peter ALAM (UK), 17th SB 2012, #407 ITF
Borna DEVALD (CRO), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #443 ITF
Felix NORDBY (NOR), 17th SB 2012, #667 ITF
Drazen PETROVIC (BiH), 17th SB 2012, #1792 ITF

GIRLS
Zoe KRUGER (RSA), 17th SB 2012 semif., #539 WTA
Helene PELLICANO (MLT), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #712 WTA
Himari SATO (JPN), 17th SB 2012 winner, #836 WTA
Francesca CURMI (MLT), 17th SB 2012, #72 ITF
Charlotte OWENSBY (USA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #85 ITF
Kristyna LAVICKOVA (CZE), 17th SB 2012, #86 ITF
Pia LOVRIC (SLO), 17th SB 2012 semif., #89 ITF
Weronika BASZAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #100 ITF
Avelina SAYFETDINOVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #161 ITF
Maria TIMOFEEVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #168 ITF
Živa FALKNER (SLO), 17th SB 2012, #177 ITF
Matilde PAOLETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #249 ITF
Luisa MEYER AUF DER HEIDE (GER), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #393 ITF

IN 2013 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 63 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2013 – 18th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE (DEN), 18th SB 2013, #28 ITF
Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA (ESP), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #42 ITF
Hamad MEDJEDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013 semif., #116 ITF
Luca NARDI (ITA), 18th SB 2013, #128 ITF
Jerome KYM (SUI), 18th SB 2013, #241 ITF
Stefan POPOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #552 ITF
Daniel RINCON (ESP), 18th SB 2013 semif., #626 ITF
Alejandro TURRIZIANI ALVAREZ (ESP), 18th SB 2013 winner, #648 ITF
Piotr KUSIEWICZ (POL), 18th SB 2013, #780 ITF
Adi DAGAN (ISR), 18th SB 2013, #786 ITF
Danilo RAICEVIC (MNE), 18th SB 2013, #1250 ITF
Fran MITROVIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #1792 ITF
Filip MANDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #1834 ITF
Gal EMERSIC POTOCNIK (SVN), 18th SB 2013, #64 ETA U16
Vojtech VEIGERT (CZE), 18th SB 2013, #238 ETA U16
Bartol BORSE (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #286 ETA U16
Lovre ERCEG (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #328 ETA U16

GIRLS
Selin Lidya SEPKEN (TUR), 18th SB 2013 semif., #223 ITF
Noa KRZNARIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013 winner, #257 ITF
Antonia RUZIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #271 ITF
Kyle BILCHEV (UK), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #597 ITF
Andjela LOPICIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #713 ITF
Kornelia HUNCAK (CRO), 18th SB 2013 semif., #324 ETA U16

IN 2014 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 2 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 65 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2014 – 19th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Mili POLJICAK (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #19 ETA U16
Kalin IVANOVSKI (MKD), 19th SB 2014, #29 ETA U16
Luka MIKRUT (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #57 ETA U16
Bor ARTNAK (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #61 ETA U16
Raffaele MARIANI (SUI), 19th SB 2014, #98 ETA U16
Matija SAMARDZIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #132 58 ETA U16
Vilius GAUBAS (LIT), 19th SB 2014, #136 ETA U16
Pedro RODENAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #146 ETA U16
Svetlin KEREMEDCHIEV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #148 ETA U16
Carlos GUERRERO ALVAREZ (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #153 ETA U16
Lun OBRUL (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #156 ETA U16
Dragomir DRAGANOV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #176 ETA U16
Nikola ZEKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #191 ETA U16
William JANSEN (GBR), 19th SB 2014, #208 ETA U16
Noa VUKADIN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #220 ETA U16
Ivan SODAN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #229 ETA U16
Enrico BALDISSERRI (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #246 ETA U16
Patrick BRADY (THI), 19th SB 2014 winner, #286 ETA U16
Dan Vasile DUTA (ROU), 19th SB 2014, #272 ETA U16
Krsta PETROVIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #635 ETA U16
Danil SOBOLIEV (UKR), 19th SB 2014 semif., #788 ETA U16
Ante CIKOJEVIC (GER), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #1055 ETA U16

GIRLS
Aliona FALEI (BLR), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #13 ETA U16
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014 semif., #16 ETA U16
Patricie KUBIKOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014, #47 ETA U16
Tea LUKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014 winner, #57 ETA U16
Denislava GLUSHKOVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #64 ETA U16
Joelle STEUR (GER), 19th SB 2014, #72 ETA U16
Lucija CIRIC BAGARIC (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #86 ETA U16
Divna RATKOVIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #182 ETA U16
Petja DRAME (SLO), 19th SB 2014, #188 ETA U16
Patricija PAUKSTYTE (LTU), 19th SB 2014, #227 ETA U16
Carolina GOMEZ (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #238 ETA U16
Stela PEEVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #238 ETA U16
Anna KANTOR (HUN), 19th SB 2014, #256 ETA U16
Suana TUCAKOVIC (BIH), 19th SB 2014 semif., #284 ETA U16
Emma VALLETTA (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #310 ETA U16
Emma RIZZETTO (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #364 ETA U16
Kyoka KUBO (JPN), 19th SB 2014, #412 ETA U16
Sarah MUELLER (GER), 19th SB 2014, #426 ETA U16
Neriya YONA (ISR), 19th SB 2014, #440 ETA U16
Irene ARTIGAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #472 ETA U16
Veronica SIRCI (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #507 ETA U16

IN 2015 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 73 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2015 – 20th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Branko DJURIC (MNE), 20th SB 2015 winner, #5 ETA U14
Marc MAJDANDZIC (GER), 20th SB 2015 semif., #12 ETA U14
Dino PRIZMIC (CRO), 20th SB 2015 quarterf., #14 ETA U14
Mikalai BANKOU (BLR), 20th SB 2015, #24 ETA U14
Aleksa PISARIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #37 ETA U14
Walker ALLEN (USA), 20th SB 2015, #64 ETA U14
Ofek SHIMANOV (ISR), 20th SB 2015, #78 ETA U14
Matej DODIG (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #86 ETA U14
Moritz LESJAK (AUT), 20th SB 2015, #89 ETA U14
Giacomo NOSEI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #94 ETA U14
Daniel ZIMMERMANN (AUT), 20th SB 2015, #100 ETA U14
Federico BONDIOLI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #113 ETA U14
Dimitar PENCHEV (BGR), 20th SB 2015, #129 ETA U14
Andrea MEDURI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #152 ETA U14
Jose Aless HERNANDEZ (ESP), 20th SB 2015 semif., #547 ETA U14
Iker SEVILLA (ESP), 20th SB 2015 runner up , #547 ETA U14

GIRLS
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 20th SB 2015 semif., #199 ITF – Les Petits As 2019 winner
Alexandra EALA (PHI), 20th SB 2015 , #121 ITF – Les Petits As 2018 winner
Lola RADIVOJEVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #13 ETA U14
Mara GAE (ROU), 20th SB 2015 semif. ,#14 ETA U14
Alena KASATKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015 winner, #17 ETA U14
Klio Maria IOANNOU (CYP), 20th SB 2015, #23 ETA U14
Petra MARCINKO (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #25 ETA U14
Malwina ROWINSKA (POL), 20th SB 2015, #27 ETA U14
Vanesa DANKO (HUN), 20th SB 2015, #29 ETA U14
Leticia TAROCCO (CRO), 20th SB 2015 winner, #39 ETA U14
Anastasia GRECHKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015, #61 ETA U14
Anja PETKOVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015 runner up, #70 ETA U14
Anastasia NIKOLOVA (BGR), 20th SB 2015 winner, #72 ETA U14
Jaquelyn OGUNWALE (UK), 20th SB 2015 winner, #77 ETA U14
June BJORK (SWE), 20th SB 2015, #84 ETA U14
Tea ZIVIC (FRA), 20th SB 2015, #87 ETA U14
Ariana GEERLINGS (ESP), 20th SB 2015, #102 ETA U14
Tena RAJKI (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #108 ETA U14
Lara STOJANOVSKI (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #342 ETA U14
Tara SLADAKOVIC (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #735 ETA U14

IN 2016 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 79 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2016 – 21st Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Antonio VOLJAVEC (CRO), 21st SB 2016, #28 ETA U14
Tomasz BERKIETA (POL), 21st SB 2016, #41 ETA U14
Chris SPYROU (GRE), 21st SB 2016, #43 ETA U14
Fran RAKONIC (CRO), 21st SB 2016, #40 ETA U14
Andreas TIMINI (CYP), 21st SB 2016, #76 ETA U14
Dilhan WASANTHA (GRB), 21st SB 2016, #80 ETA U14
Petr BRUNCLIK (CZE), 21st SB 2016 semif., #91 ETA U14
Pavel MARINOV (BGR), 21st SB 2016, #97 ETA U14
Max STENZER (GER), 21st SB 2016, #103 ETA U14
Nikolai BARSUKOV (GER), 21st SB 2016, #131 ETA U14
Kaylan BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 winner – Auray 2018 winner, #309 ETA U14
Meecah BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 semif., #471 ETA U14
Luis Garcia PAEZ (ESP), 21st SB 2016 runner up

GIRLS
Mia RISTIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016 semif. #57 ETA U14
Jovana GRUJIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016 CD winner, #82 ETA U14
Ela Nala MILIC (SVN), 21st SB 2016 winner, #101 ETA U14
Dunja MARIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016, #105 ETA U14
Camilia SAMEL DRUZ (FRA), 21st SB 2016 runner up, #357 ETA U14
Yufei REN (CHN), 21st SB 2016 semif.

IN 2017 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 85 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2017 – 22nd Smrikva Bowl

IN 2018 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 87 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2018 – 23rd Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Vito DARDERI (ARG), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Niels McDONALD (GER), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Žiga ŠEŠKO (SLO), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Riki IMAI (JPN), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

GIRLS
Alisa OKTIABREVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Iva LAKIC (MNE), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Daria KORESHKOVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Zlatina ANGELOVA (BUL), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

18/02/19

22 Smrikva Bowl players out of 128 were in the Main Draws of the Open Super 12 - AURAY 2019 start... Benjamin GUSIC WAN & Shanice ROIGNOT are the Champions

OPEN SUPER 12 AURAY is played since 1985 and many top world players played this tournament considered one of the most important under 12 International Tournaments.

Some of the known names are: Les Français Richard GASQUET, Gaël MONFILS, Paul-Henri MATHIEU, Julien BENNETEAU, Tommy ROBREDO, Raphaël NADAL, Mickaël YOUZNY, Féliciano LOPEZ, Amélie MAURESMO, Justine HENIN, Kim CLIJSTERS and Dinara SAFINA.

Over the last years several Smrikva Bowl players won OPEN SUPER 12 AURAY: Maia LUMSDEN, Anastasia MIKHEEVA, Paula ARIAS MANON, Mihailo POPOVIC, Victor JOVIC, Dino PRIZMIC, Linda FRUHVIRTOVA, Kaylan BIGUN… Benjamin GUSIC WAN & Shanice ROIGNOT are the winners of this year edition

Out of 128 players in both girls and boys Main Draws I recognized 22 former Smrikva Bowl players…

Detailed results of Smrikva boys and girls on this year OPEN Super 12 – AURAY 2019 are the following:

BOYS:

Benjamin GUSIC WAN (Gbr) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Benjamin Gusic Wan – Noah BOUTLEUX (Fra) 6:1,6:0
2nd round: Benjamin Gusic Wan – Luka ALBREHT (Svn) 6:0,6:1
3rd round: Benjamin Gusic Wan – Egor PLESHIVTSEV (Rus) 6:4,6:0
Quarterfinals: B. Gusic Wan – D.CARTEPUTREDA (Rou) 6:4,6:2
Semifinals: Benjamin Gusic Wan – Axel FRECHET (Fra) 6:4,6:4
Finals: Benjamin Gusic Wan – Y.SBOROWSKY (Fra) 6:2,2:6,6:3

Samy KHEDIRI (Gbr) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Samy Khediri – Amar HUSEINOVIKJ (Mkd) 6:1,6:3
2nd round: Samy Khediri – Tibo MEERMANS (Bel) wo
3rd round: Samy Khediri – Yannick NGANTCHA (Ita) 6:1,6:4
Quarterfinals: Samy Khediri – Gabriel GHETU (Rou) 6:2,6:3
Semifinals: Samy Khediri – Yoshka SBOROWSKY (Fra) 3:6,5:7

Yannick Thierry NGANTCHA LLISO (Ita) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Yannick Ngantcha – Gregory VREL NAGEL (Fra) 6:4,6:2
2nd round: Yannick Ngantcha – Cyprien CHEVALIER (Fra) 6:3,6:1
3rd round: Yannick Ngantcha – Samy KHEDIRI (Gbr) 1:6,4:6

Timofei DEREPASKO (Rus) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Timofei Derepasko – Gian Carlo PERRIS (Mon) 6:0,6:0
2nd round: Timofei Derepasko – Pierre Antoine FAUT (Fra) 6:0,6:0
3rd round: Timofei Derepasko – Yoshka SBOROWSKY (Fra) 3:6,3:6

Federico CINA (Ita) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Federico Cina – Enzo PIERROT (Fra) 6:4,7:5
2nd round: Federico Cina – Timothee LUSTIG (Fra) 6:3,6:3
3rd round: Federico Cina – Axel FRECHET (Fra) 7:5,0:6,2:6

Oliver BONDING (Gbr) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Oliver Bonding – Yannis BATSABAKEN (Fra) 6:0,6:1
2nd round: Oliver Bonding – Ognjen MILIC (Srb) 7:5,4:6,6:4
3rd round: Oliver Bonding – Maxim MRVA (Cze) 6:7,4:6

Jovan TOMOVIC (Mne) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Jovan Tomovic – Luka NIKOLIC (Fra) 6:2,6:2
2nd round: Jovan Tomovic – D.CARTEPUTREDA (Rou) 5:7,1:6

Ognjen MILIC (Srb) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Ognjen Milic – Lenny GALLEY (Fra) 6:2,6:0
2nd round: Ognjen Milic – Oliver BONDING (Gbr) 5:7,6:4,4:6

Vuk KRUSCIC (Srb) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Vuk Kruscic – William REJCHTMAN (Swe) 7:6,6:2
2nd round: Vuk Kruscic – Axel FRECHET (Fra) 4:6,0:6

David DARABAN (Rou) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: David Daraban – Yoshka SBOROWSKY (Fra) 2:6,3:6

William REJCHTMAN VINCIGUERRA (Swe) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: William Rejchtman – Vuk KRUSCIC (Srb) 6:7,2:6

Conor BRADY (Tha) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Conor Brady – Alexis BERQUIER (Fra) 5:7,0:6

Luka NIKOLIC (Fra) – 23rd Smrikva Bowl 2018
1st round: Luka Nikolic – Jovan TOMOVIC (MNE) 2:6,2:6

GIRLS:

Shanice ROIGNOT (Fra) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017 runner up
1st round: Shanice Roignot – A.SIKHARULIDZE (USA) 6:0,6:1
2nd round: Shanice Roignot – Elizabete BRUTANE (Lat) 6:4,2:6,7:5
3rd round: Shanice Roignot – Y. KONSTANTINOVA (Bul) 6:1,6:7,6:1
Quarterfinals: Shanice Roignot – Milana IVANTSIV (Por) 6:2,6:1
Semifinals: Shanice Roignot – Kiko INOUE (Jpn) 6:0,6:4
Finals: Shanice Roignot – Ayuna NAKAZATO (Jpn)

Hephzibah OLUWADARE (Gbr) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: H. Oluwadare – A.HUIJSEGOMS (Bel) 6:0,6:0
2nd round: H. Oluwadare – Gwendy MERLEVEDE (Lux) 6:0,6:0
3rd round: H. Oluwadare – Marie SLAMENIKOVA (Cze) 7:5,6:1
Quarterfinals: H. Oluwadare – Victoria MILOVANOVA (Rus) 6:2,6:3
Semifinals: H. Oluwadare – Ayuna NAKAZATO (Jpn) 3:6,6:4,3:6

Rositsa DENCHEVA (Bul) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017 winner
1st round: Rositsa Dencheva – D.MPETSHI PERRICARD (Fra) 6:1,6:1
2nd round: Rositsa Dencheva – Beatrise ZELTINA (Lat) 6:3,6:1
3rd round: Rositsa Dencheva – Ayuna NAKAZATO (Jpn) 6:3,3:6,6:7

Antonina CZAJKA (Pol) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Antonina Czajka – Scendy HENRY (Fra) 7:5,7:6
2nd round: Antonina Czajka – Dora BIONDIC (Cro) 4:6,6:3,7:6
3rd round: Antonina Czajka – Victoria MILOVANOVA (Rus) 5:7,2:6

Sapir COHEN (Isr) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Sapir Cohen – Margot PHANTHALA (Fra) 6:3,6:1
2nd round: Sapir Cohen – Greta PETRILLO (Ita) 5:7,6:3,4:6

Francesca DE MATTEO (Ita) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Francesca De Matteo – Marc’harid BISOVA (Fra) 6:3,6:2
2nd round: Francesca De Matteo – Ayuna NAKAZATO (Jpn) 3:6,1:6

Dora BIONDIC (Cro) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Dora Biondic – Sofia SEGUI EDMUNDSON (Esp) 6:2,6:0
2nd round: Dora Biondic – Antonina CZAJKA (Pol) 6:4,3:6,6:7

Dora MISKOVIC (Cro) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Dora Miskovic – Greta PETRILLO (Ita) 3:6 0:6

Sofia SEGUI EDMUNDSON (Esp) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Sofia Segui Edmundson – Dora BIONDIC (Cro) 2:6,0:6

04/02/19

Top Smrikva Bowl and "LM"/SB players on ATP, WTA, ITF and European under 14 and 16 ranking lists (update February 2019)

Former top Smrikva Bowl players that reached certain results on the professional ranking list and the top Smrikva Bowl players current ranking.

As of February 4th, 2019 their track record includes the following:
- 30 junior GRAND SLAM titles conquered by 23 players
- 27 professional ATP/WTA titles
- 44 players reached TOP 200 ATP/WTA ranking => 19 players reached TOP 100 ATP/WTA ranking => 5 players reached TOP 20 ATP/WTA => 2 players reached TOP 10 ATP/WTA ranking
- 140+ SB players received scholarships to study in the US & play tennis.

• 24 TOP 200 WTA Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #7 WTA (Feb 2016)
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #20 WTA (Jul 2017)
Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #25 WTA (Feb 2019)
Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #31 WTA (Jan 2019)
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- # 41 WTA (Feb 2019)
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #45 WTA (Jan 2019)
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #83 WTA (Feb 2019)
Ivana LISJAK – 1997 winner – #95 WTA (Jun 2006)
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #96 WTA (Oct 2018)
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #97 WTA (Oct 2017)

Ivana JOROVIC – 2007 player – #117 on WTA (Jan 2019)
Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #121 WTA (Feb 2017)
Clair LIU – 2010 “LM”/SB player -#137 WTA (Jan 2019)
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #139 WTA (Aug 2018)
Deborah CHIESA – 2006 player – #143 WTA (Jun 2018)
Martina TREVISAN – 2003 player – #144 WTA (Aug 2017)
Tereza MRDEZA – 2000 winner – #150 WTA (Oct 2015)
Katie SWAN – 2009 winner – #163 WTA (Oct 2018)
Gabriela TAYLOR – 2008 player – #164 WTA (Oct 2018)
Dejana RADANOVIC – 2006 player – #187 WTA (Jul 2018)

Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #55 WTA doubles (Nov 2017)
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #62 WTA (Feb 2019)
Camilla ROSATELLO – 2005 player – #134 WTA doubles (Jan 2018)
Ema BURGIC – 2002 semifinalist – #145 WTA doubles (Oct 2016)
Giorgia MARCHETTI – 2005 player – #175 WTA doubles (Oct 2018)
Tereza MIHALIKOVA – 2008 player – #189 WTA doubles (May 2017)

• 20 TOP 200 ATP Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #4 ATP (Nov 2017)
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #12 ATP (Nov 2018)
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #28 ATP (Jan 2019)
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #83 ATP (Sep 2018)
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #100 ATP (Feb 2019)
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 quarterf.- #118 ATP (Jan 2019)
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 CD winner – #124 (Jan 2019)
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #143 ATP (Oct 2017)
Gianluigi QUINZI – 2006 winner – # 146 ATP (Dec 2018)
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #146 ATP (Mar 2017)

Tommy PAUL – 2007 “LM”/SB player – #149 ATP (Jan 2018)
Matteo DONATI – 2005 winner – #159 ATP (Jul 2015)
Javier MARTI – 2002 winner – #170 ATP (Apr 2012)
Nino SERDARUSIC – 2005 player – #192 ATP (Aug 2018)
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #196 (Apr 2018)

As of 4th of February 2019 the ranking summary of the very TOP former Smrikva Bowl boys and girls is the following:

• 53 WTA players

Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #25 WTA
Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #36 WTA
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- #41 WTA
Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #45 WTA
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #46 WTA
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #83 WTA
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #112 WTA
Ivana JOROVIC – 2007 player – #117 WTA
Claire LIU – 2010 player – #142 WTA
Martina TREVISAN – 2003 player – #166 WTA

Katie SWAN – 2009 winner – #176 WTA
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #176 WTA
Gabriela TAYLOR – 2008 player – #183 WTA
Tereza MRDEZA – 2000 winner – #202 WTA
Dejana RADANOVIC – 2006 player – #213 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #248 WTA
Andreea ROSCA – 2009 player – #249 WTA
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #262 WTA
Tena LUKAS – 2005 player – #272 WTA
Deborah CHIESA – 2006 player – #281 WTA

Olga IANCHUK – 2005 runner up – #300 WTA
Jessica PIERI – 2007 player – #304 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN – 2009 player – #309 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ – 2009 player – #331 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA – 2008 player – #360 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK – 2007 player – #382 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO – 2005 player – #388 WTA
Martina CAREGARO – 2002 winner – #398 WTA
Haruna ARAKAWA – 2008 player – #476 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS – 2006 quarterfinalist – #483 WTA

Miriam BULGARU – 2008 player – #486 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO – 2007 player – #498 WTA
Lea BOSKOVIC – 2009 player – #509 WTA
Seone MENDEZ – 2009 player – #510 WTA
Pia CUK – 2006 player – #522 WTA
Ashley LAHEY – 2009 player – #525 WTA
Zoe KRUGER – 2012 semif. – #535 WTA
Angelica MORATELLI – 2004 player – #542 WTA
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #547 WTA
Tatiana PIERI – 2007 player – #555 WTA

Karin KENNEL – 2005 player – #580 WTA
Iva PRIMORAC – 2006 player – #623 WTA
Ingrid NEEL – 2008 player – #652 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI – 2005 player – #664 WTA
Oana Georgeta SIMION – 2005 player – #708 WTA
Helen PELLICANO – 2012 player -#714 WTA
Alexandra VECIC – 2011 player – 731 WTA
Michaela GORDON – 2009 player – #765 WTA
Vladica BABIC – 2005 player – #766 WTA
Anita HUSARIC – 2004 player – #766 WTA

Himari SATO – 2012 winner – #816 WTA
Paula ARIAS MANJON – 2010 runner up – #835 WTA
Benedetta IVALDI – 2010 player – #835 WTA

• 22 ATP players

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #8 ATP
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #13 ATP
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #28 ATP
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #88 ATP
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #100 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #118 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 cd winner – #125 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI – 2006 winner – #153 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #174 ATP
Tommy PAUL – 2007 player – #201 ATP

Matteo DONATI – 2005 winner – #211 ATP
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #224 ATP
Gian Marco MORONI – 2008 player – #228 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 semi – #236 ATP
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #237 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC – 2005 player – #259 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM – 2008 player – #404 ATP
William BLUMBERG 2008 player – #442 ATP
Robin KERN – 2002 player – #481 ATP
Patrik RIKL – 2009 player – #554 ATP

Nik RAZBORSEK – 2003 player – #596 ATP
Adrian BODMER – 2005 player – #651 ATP

• 6 players TOP 100 ATP RACE TO MILAN NEXT GEN

Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #2 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #5 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 player – #7 ATP
Nicola KUHN – 2010 player – #16 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 player – #27 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM – 2008 player – #31 ATP

NEXT GEN SB PLAYERS:
2017: Borna CORIC and Gianluigi QUINZI (WC)
2018: Alex DE MINAUR (runner up) and Lloyd HARRIS (invited)

• 10 boys and 5 girls… in total 15 players are in TOP 100 ITF

BOYS:
- #2 Lorenzo MUSETTI Junior USOPEN 2018 runner up & junior AO2019 winner
- #13 Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA
- #26 Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE
- #63 Erik VANSHELBOIM
- #68 Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA
- #76 Cezar CRETU
- #80 Alibek KACHMAZOV
- #88 Roko HORVAT
- #89 Luciano DARDERI
- #100 Filippo MORONI

GIRLS:
- #55 Helen PELLICANO
- #83 Weronika BASZAK
- #84 Kristyna LAVICKOVA
- #85 Francesca CURMI
- #95 Himari SATO

• 4 boys and 1 girl are in TOP 10 ETA under 16 – (Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE #1, Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA #2, Stefan POPOVIC #5, Luca NARDI #9; Antonia RUZIC #5)

• 2 boys and 1 girl are in TOP 10 ETA under 14 – (Branko DJURIC #2, Dino PRIZMIC #7; Linda FRUHVIRTOVA #1)

Tereza MRDEZA (CRO), 5th SB 2000 winner, #202 WTA

Petra MARTIC (CRO), 6th SB 2001 winner, #36 WTA

IN 2002 SMRIKVA BOWL STARTED TO BE A EUROPEAN TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2002 – 7th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Federico GAIO (ITA), 7th SB 2002, #224 ATP
Robin KERN (GER), 7th SB 2002, #481 ATP
Javier MARTI (ESP), 7th SB 2002 winner, #170 ATP (Apr 2012)
Luca MARGAROLI (SUI), 7th SB 2002, #142 ATP doubles
Ivan SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #297 ATP doubles
Matej SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #339 ATP doubles

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO), 7th SB 2002 runner up, #41 WTA
Martina CAREGARO (ITA), 7th SB 2002 winner, #398 WTA

2003 – 8th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Dominic THIEM (AUT), 8th SB 2003 winner, #8 ATP
Nik RAZBORSEK (SLO), 8th SB 2003, #596 ATP

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO),8th SB 2003 semif., #41 WTA
Martina TREVISAN (ITA), 8th SB 2003, #166 WTA

2004 – 9th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Miki JANKOVIC (SRB), 9th SB 2004 runner up, #256 ATP (Aug 2016)
Filip VEGER (CRO), 9th SB 2004 semif, #478 ATP (Feb 2015)
Nerman FATIC (BiH), 9th SB 2004 semif, #435 ATP (Dec 2018)

GIRLS
Angelica MORATELLI (ITA), 9th SB 2004, #542 WTA
Vladica BABIC (MNE), 9th SB 2004, #766 WTA
Giada CLERICI (ITA), 2004 player, #703 WTA (Sep 2015)

IN 2005 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 3 CONTINENTS

2005 – 10th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Borna CORIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #13 ATP
Laslo DJERE (SRB), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #88 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 semif., #153 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC (SRB), 10th SB 2005 Cons.winner, #174 ATP
Matteo DONATI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 winner, #211 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #259 ATP
Adrian BODMER (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #651 ATP
Neven KRIVOKUCA (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #955 ATP (Aug 2018)

GIRLS
Donna VEKIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #25 WTA
Irina Maria BARA (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #176 WTA
Jana FETT (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #262 WTA
Tena LUKAS (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #272 WTA
Olga IANCHUK (UKR), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #300 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #388 WTA
Karin KENNEL (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #580 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #664 WTA
Oana Georgetta SIMION (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #708 WTA

2006 – 11th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 11th SB 2006 winner, #153 ATP

GIRLS
Belinda BENCIC (SUI), 11th SB 2006, #45 WTA
Katie BOULTER (UK), 11th SB 2006, #83 WTA
Dejana *RADANOVIC*(SRB), 11th SB 2006, #213 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC (SRB), 11th SB 2006, #248 WTA
Deborah CHIESA (ITA), 11th SB 2006, #281 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS (BiH), 11th SB 2006 quarterf., #483 WTA
Pia CUK (SVN) – 11th SB 2006, #522 WTA

2007 – 12th Smrikva Bowl and 6th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lloyd HARRIS (RSA), ,12th SB 2007, #100 ATP
Miguel SEMMLER (ESP), 12th SB 2007, #514 ATP (Nov 2017)
Bogdan BORZA (ROU), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #674 ATP (Jun 2018)

GIRLS
Ivana JOROVIC (SRB), 12th SB 2007, #117 WTA
Jessica PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #304 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK (SLO), 12th SB 2007 semif., #382 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO (ESP), 12th SB 2007 player – #498 WTA
Ana KONJUH (CRO), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #547 WTA
Tatiana PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #555 WTA
Chiara GRIMM (SUI), 12th SB 2007 quarterf., #539 WTA (Jul 2017)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Tommy PAUL (USA), 6th “Little Mo”/SB, #201 ATP

IN 2008 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 5 CONTINENTS AND TURNED INTO A WORLD TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2008 – 13th Smrikva Bowl and 7th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gian Marco MORONI (ITA), 13th SB 2008, #228 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM (EGY), 13th SB 2008, #404 ATP
Andrea GUERRIERI (ITA), 13th SB 2008 semif., #798 ATP (Jul 2018)
Sven LAH (SLO), 13th SB 2008, #1101 ATP (Jul 2018)

GIRLS
Viktoria KUZMOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008 semif., #46 WTA
Gabriela *TAYLOR*(UK), 13th SB 2008, #183 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN (UK), 13th SB 2008 runner up, #309 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008, #360 WTA
Nina ALIBALIC (AUS), 13th SB 2008, #475 WTA (Aug 2016)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ingrid NEEL (USA), 7th “Little Mo”/SB, #652 WTA

IN 2009 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND 1 NEW CONTINENT THEREFORE REACHED THE TOTAL OF 40 COUNTRIES AND 6 CONTINENTS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2009 – 14th Smrikva Bowl and 8th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Alex DE MINAUR (AUS), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #28 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC (SRB), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #118 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN (AUS), 14th SB 2009 Cons.winner, #125 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA (ESP), 14th SB 2009 semif., #236 ATP
Patrik RIKL (CZE), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #554 ATP
Gabi Adrian BOITAN (ROM), 14th SB 2009, #832 ATP (Sep 2018)
Karlo KRANIC (CRO), 14th SB 2009, #1263 ATP (Jul 2018)
Moritz THIEM (AUT), 14th SB 2009,#1394 ATP (Nov 2018)

GIRLS
Katie SWAN (UK), 14th SB 2009 winner, #176 WTA
Andrea Amalia ROSCA (ROU), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #249 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ (TUR), 14th SB 2009 player, #331 WTA
Haruna ARAKAWA (JPN), 14th SB 2009, #476 WTA
Seone MENDEZ (AUS), 14th SB 2009, #510 WTA
Angela FITA BOLUDA (ESP), 14th SB 2009, #843 WTA (Aug 2018)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ashley LAHEY (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #525 WTA
Michaela GORDON (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #765 WTA

IN 2010 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 49 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2010 – 15th Smrikva Bowl and 9th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Nicola KUHN (ESP), 15th SB 2010 winner, #237 ATP
Tomas MACHAC (CZE), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #534 ATP (Dec 2018)
Yshai OLIEL (ISR), 15th SB 2010 semif., #564 ATP (Apr 2018)
Rimpei KAWAKAMI (JPN), 15th SB 2010, #929 ATP (Dec 2018)
Damien WENGER (SUI), 15th SB 2010, #1553 ATP (Dec 2018)
Filippo MORONI (ITA), 15th SB 2010, #1605 ATP (May 2018)

GIRLS
Paula ARIAS MANJON (ESP), 15th SB 2010 runner up, #835 WTA
Benedetta IVALDI (ITA), 15th SB 2010, #835 WTA
Kristina NOVAK (SLO), 15th SB 2010 semif., #921 WTA (Dec 2018)
Ania HERTEL (POL), 15th SB 2010, #974 WTA (Nov 2018)
Irina CANTOS SIEMERS (BEL), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #1048 WTA (Aug 2018)
Mihaela Lorena MARCULESCU (ROU), 15th SB 2010, #1219 WTA (Jul 2017)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Claire LIU (USA), 9th “Little Mo”/SB, #142 WTA

IN 2011 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 54 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2011 – 16th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Duje AJDUKOVIC (CRO), 16th SB 2011 winner, #754 ATP (Dec 2018)
Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA (ESP), 16th SB 2011 quarterf., #1036 ATP (Jul 2018)
Cezar CRETU (ROU), 16th SB 2011, #1580 ATP (Apr 2018)
Eric VANSHELBOIM (UKR), 16th SB 2011, #63 ITF
Mihailo POPOVIC (SRB), 16th SB 2011 runner up, #259 ITF
Marco FURLANETTO (ITA), 16th SB 2011, #289 ITF
Makary ADAMEK (POL), 16th SB 2011, #378 ITF

2012 – 17th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lorenzo MUSETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #2 ITF
Alibek KACHMAZOV (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #80 ITF
Sebastian GIMA (ROU), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #117 ITF
Goran ZIVOTIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 winner, #187 ITF
Piotr PAWLAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #188 ITF
Michael Francis EALA (PHI), 17th SB 2012, #219 ITF
Mikolaj LORENS (POL), 17th SB 2012, #229 ITF
Viktor JOVIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 semif., #302 ITF
Peter ALAM (UK), 17th SB 2012, #383 ITF
Borna DEVALD (CRO), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #429 ITF
Felix NORDBY (NOR), 17th SB 2012, #742 ITF
Drazen PETROVIC (BiH), 17th SB 2012, #1764 ITF

GIRLS
Zoe KRUGER (RSA), 17th SB 2012 semif., #535 WTA
Helene PELLICANO (MLT), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #714 WTA
Himari SATO (JPN), 17th SB 2012 winner, #816 WTA
Weronika BASZAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #83 ITF
Kristyna LAVICKOVA (CZE), 17th SB 2012, #84 ITF
Francesca CURMI (MLT), 17th SB 2012, #85 ITF
Charlotte OWENSBY (USA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #122 ITF
Pia LOVRIC (SLO), 17th SB 2012 semif., #123 ITF
Maria TIMOFEEVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #147 ITF
Avelina SAYFETDINOVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #153 ITF
Živa FALKNER (SLO), 17th SB 2012, #184 ITF
Matilde PAOLETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #253 ITF
Luisa MEYER AUF DER HEIDE (GER), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #373 ITF

IN 2013 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 63 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2013 – 18th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE (DEN), 18th SB 2013, #26 ITF
Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA (ESP), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #68 ITF
Hamad MEDJEDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013 semif., #111 ITF
Luca NARDI (ITA), 18th SB 2013, #123 ITF
Jerome KYM (SUI), 18th SB 2013, #277 ITF
Stefan POPOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #501 ITF
Daniel RINCON (ESP), 18th SB 2013 semif., #602 ITF
Alejandro TURRIZIANI ALVAREZ (ESP), 18th SB 2013 winner, #645 ITF
Piotr KUSIEWICZ (POL), 18th SB 2013, #762 ITF
Adi DAGAN (ISR), 18th SB 2013, #769 ITF
Danilo RAICEVIC (MNE), 18th SB 2013, #1228 ITF
Fran MITROVIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #1764 ITF
Filip MANDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #1805 ITF
Gal EMERSIC POTOCNIK (SVN), 18th SB 2013, #59 ETA U16
Vojtech VEIGERT (CZE), 18th SB 2013, #230 ETA U16
Bartol BORSE (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #270 ETA U16
Lovre ERCEG (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #311 ETA U16

GIRLS
Selin Lidya SEPKEN (TUR), 18th SB 2013 semif., #192 ITF
Noa KRZNARIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013 winner, #249 ITF
Antonia RUZIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #273 ITF
Kyle BILCHEV (UK), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #574 ITF
Andjela LOPICIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #703 ITF
Kornelia HUNCAK (CRO), 18th SB 2013 semif., #314 ETA U16

IN 2014 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 2 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 65 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2014 – 19th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Mili POLJICAK (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #14 ETA U16
Kalin IVANOVSKI (MKD), 19th SB 2014, #27 ETA U16
Luka MIKRUT (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #44 ETA U16
Bor ARTNAK (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #52 ETA U16
Raffaele MARIANI (SUI), 19th SB 2014, #98 ETA U16
Matija SAMARDZIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #130 58 ETA U16
Vilius GAUBAS (LIT), 19th SB 2014, #134 ETA U16
Pedro RODENAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #144 ETA U16
Svetlin KEREMEDCHIEV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #145 ETA U16
Carlos GUERRERO ALVAREZ (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #147 ETA U16
Lun OBRUL (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #149 ETA U16
Noa VUKADIN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #149 ETA U16
Dragomir DRAGANOV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #170 ETA U16
Nikola ZEKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #182 ETA U16
William JANSEN (GBR), 19th SB 2014, #206 ETA U16
Ivan SODAN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #222 ETA U16
Enrico BALDISSERRI (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #248 ETA U16
Patrick BRADY (THI), 19th SB 2014 winner, #260 ETA U16
Dan Vasile DUTA (ROU), 19th SB 2014, #260 ETA U16
Krsta PETROVIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #622 ETA U16
Danil SOBOLIEV (UKR), 19th SB 2014 semif., #770 ETA U16
Ante CIKOJEVIC (GER), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #952 ETA U16

GIRLS
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014 semif., #16 ETA U16
Aliona FALEI (BLR), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #19 ETA U16
Patricie KUBIKOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014, #49 ETA U16
Tea LUKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014 winner, #52 ETA U16
Denislava GLUSHKOVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #60 ETA U16
Lucija CIRIC BAGARIC (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #80 ETA U16
Joelle STEUR (GER), 19th SB 2014, #118 ETA U16
Patricija PAUKSTYTE (LTU), 19th SB 2014, #144 ETA U16
Petja DRAME (SLO), 19th SB 2014, #182 ETA U16
Divna RATKOVIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #188 ETA U16
Carolina GOMEZ (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #233 ETA U16
Stela PEEVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #233 ETA U16
Anna KANTOR (HUN), 19th SB 2014, #252 ETA U16
Suana TUCAKOVIC (BIH), 19th SB 2014 semif., #281 ETA U16
Emma VALLETTA (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #336 ETA U16
Emma RIZZETTO (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #352 ETA U16
Sarah MUELLER (GER), 19th SB 2014, #414 ETA U16
Neriya YONA (ISR), 19th SB 2014, #424 ETA U16
Irene ARTIGAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #457 ETA U16
Veronica SIRCI (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #498 ETA U16
Kyoka KUBO (JPN), 19th SB 2014, #505 ETA U16

IN 2015 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 73 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2015 – 20th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Branko DJURIC (MNE), 20th SB 2015 winner, #2 ETA U14
Dino PRIZMIC (CRO), 20th SB 2015 quarterf., #7 ETA U14
Marc MAJDANDZIC (GER), 20th SB 2015 semif., #12 ETA U14
Mikalai BANKOU (BLR), 20th SB 2015, #18 ETA U14
Walker ALLEN (USA), 20th SB 2015, #79 ETA U14
Matej DODIG (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #88 ETA U14
Daniel ZIMMERMANN (AUT), 20th SB 2015, #91 ETA U14
Giacomo NOSEI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #112 ETA U14
Dimitar PENCHEV (BGR), 20th SB 2015, #117 ETA U14
Andrea MEDURI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #123 ETA U14
Federico BONDIOLI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #157 ETA U14
Jose Aless HERNANDEZ (ESP), 20th SB 2015 semif., #522 ETA U14
Iker SEVILLA (ESP), 20th SB 2015 runner up , #522 ETA U14

GIRLS
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 20th SB 2015 semif., #1 ETA U14 – Les Petits As 2019 winner
Alena KASATKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015 winner, #13 ETA U14
Mara GAE (ROU), 20th SB 2015 semif. ,#16 ETA U14
Lola RADIVOJEVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #19 ETA U14
Alexandra EALA (PHI), 20th SB 2015 , #20 ETA U14 – Les Petits As 2018 winner
Malwina ROWINSKA (POL), 20th SB 2015, #24 ETA U14
Klio Maria IOANNOU (CYP), 20th SB 2015, #21 ETA U14
Vanesa DANKO (HUN), 20th SB 2015, #26 ETA U14
Petra MARCINKO (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #32 ETA U14
Leticia TAROCCO (CRO), 20th SB 2015 winner, #42 ETA U14
Anastasia GRECHKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015, #55 ETA U14
Anja PETKOVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015 runner up, #61 ETA U14
Anastasia NIKOLOVA (BGR), 20th SB 2015 winner, #56 ETA U14
Jaquelyn OGUNWALE (UK), 20th SB 2015 winner, #68 ETA U14
Ariana GEERLINGS (ESP), 20th SB 2015, #91 ETA U14
Tena RAJKI (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #94 ETA U14
Lara STOJANOVSKI (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #329 ETA U14
Tara SLADAKOVIC (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #719 ETA U14

IN 2016 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 79 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2016 – 21st Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Antonio VOLJAVEC (CRO), 21st SB 2016, #21 ETA U14
Tomasz BERKIETA (POL), 21st SB 2016, #30 ETA U14
Chris SPYROU (GRE), 21st SB 2016, #31 ETA U14
Petr BRUNCLIK (CZE), 21st SB 2016 semif., #35 ETA U14
Fran RAKONIC (CRO), 21st SB 2016, #38 ETA U14
Andreas TIMINI (CYP), 21st SB 2016, #64 ETA U14
Dilhan WASANTHA (GRB), 21st SB 2016, #67 ETA U14
Pavel MARINOV (BGR), 21st SB 2016, #97 ETA U14
Max STENZER (GER), 21st SB 2016, #103 ETA U14
Nikolai BARSUKOV (GER), 21st SB 2016, #120 ETA U14
Kaylan BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 winner – Auray 2018 winner, #294 ETA U14
Meecah BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 semif., #447 ETA U14
Luis Garcia PAEZ (ESP), 21st SB 2016 runner up

GIRLS
Mia RISTIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016 semif. #49 ETA U14
Jovana GRUJIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016 CD winner, #76 ETA U14
Ela Nala MILIC (SVN), 21st SB 2016 winner, #89 ETA U14
Dunja MARIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016, #112 ETA U14
Camilia SAMEL DRUZ (FRA), 21st SB 2016 runner up, #369 ETA U14
Yufei REN (CHN), 21st SB 2016 semif.

IN 2017 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 85 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2017 – 22nd Smrikva Bowl

GIRLS
Rositsa DENCHEVA (BGR), 22nd SB 2017 winner
Shanice ROIGNOT (FRA), 22nd SB 2017 runner up
Chu LI-YA (TWN), 22nd SB 2017 semif.
Mai GOTO (JPN), 22nd SB 2017 semif.

IN 2018 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 87 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2018 – 23rd Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Vito DARDERI (ARG), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Niels McDONALD (GER), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Žiga ŠEŠKO (SLO), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Riki IMAI (JPN), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

GIRLS
Alisa OKTIABREVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Iva LAKIC (MNE), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Daria KORESHKOVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Zlatina ANGELOVA (BUL), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

21/01/19

19 Smrikva Bowl players in the Main Draws of the 37th Les Petits As 2019 edition; Linda FRUHVIRTOVA is the Champion

Les Petits As is unofficial under 14 World Championship traditionally played in Tarbes in France.

… and out of 128 players in both girls and boys Main Draws I recognized in total 19 former Smrikva Bowl players (11 girls and 8 boys)

There were 15 in the qualification draws: Giacomo NOSEI, Matej DODIG, Tomasz BERKIETA, Fran RAKONIC, Pepe LEON BALEATO (qualified), Rafael SEGADO ESTEVE, Tena RAJKI, Petra MARCINKO, Leticia TAROCCO (qualified), Given ROACH, Camilia SAMEL DRUZ, Julia ZLATEVA, Ariana GEERLINGS, Anastasia GRECHKINA, Jaquelyn OGUNWALE (qualified)

GIRLS

Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE) 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015 semifinalist
1st round: Linda Fruhvirtova – Lea Bathellier (Fra) 6:2,6:1
2nd round: Linda Fruhvirtova – Anna SEDYSHEVA (Rus) 6:0,6:2
3rd round: Linda Fruhvirtova – Eva Shaw (Gbr) 6:3,6:0
Quarterfinals: Linda Fruhvirtova – Katherine Hui (USA) 6:0,6:2
Semifinals: Linda Fruhvirtova – Anastasiia Gureva (Rus) 6:2,6:2
Finals: Linda Fruhvirtova – Sofia Costoulas (Bel) 6:1,6:0

Leticia TAROCCO (Cro) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Leticia Tarocco – Manal ENNACIRI (Mar) 6:0,6:0
2nd round: Leticia Tarocco – Katherine HUI (USA) 6:7,2:6

Shanice ROIGNOT (Fra) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Shanice Roignot – Liel ROTHENSTEINER (Aut) 4:6,6:1,6:1
2nd round: Shanice Roignot – Cadence BRACE (Can) 3:6,1:6

Vanesa DANKO (Hun) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Vanesa Danko – Auriane LUNAIN (Fra) 7:6,6:2
2nd round: Vanesa Danko – Anna PARADISI (Ita) 6:3,1:7,5:7

Mara GAE (Rou) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Mara Gae – Ranah Akua STOIBER (Gbr) 4:6,2:6

Jaquelyn OGUNWALE (Gbr) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Jaquelyn Ogunwale – K. CARNICELLA (USA) 0:6,6:3,2:6

Malwina ROWINSKA (Pol) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Malwina Rowinska – Kayla CROSS (Can) 2:6,2:6

Sapir COHEN (ISR) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Sapir Cohen – Anna SEDYSHEVA (Rus) 0:6,0:6

Tea ZIVIC (Fra) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Tea Zivic – Anastasiia GUREVA (Rus) 3:6,4:6

Lola RADIVOJEVIC (Srb) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Lola Radivojevic – Lucie HAVLICKOVA (Cze) 6:1,4:6,1:6

Alena KASATKINA (Rus) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015 winner
1st round: Alena Kasatkina – Tijana SRETENOVIC (Srb) 4:6,7:6,5:7

BOYS

Branko DJURIC (SRB) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015 winner
1st round: Branko Djuric – Daniel KHAZIME (Rus) 6:3,6:3
2nd round: Branko Djuric – Yannik KELM (Ger) 6:3,6:1
3rd round: Branko Djuric – Gilles Arnaud BAILLY (Bel) 7:5,2:6,0:6

Mikalai BANKOU (Blr) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Mikalai Bankou – Leo COHEN BACRIE (Fra) 7:5,6:4
2nd round: Mikalai Bankou – Mihai Alexandru COMAN (Rou) 2:6,2:6

Pepe LEON BALEATO (Esp) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Pepe Leon – Dorian LEY (Fra) 6:3,6:3
2nd round: Pepe Leon – Gilles Arnaud BAILLY (Bel) 6:1,2:6,0:6

Antonio VOLJAVEC (CRO) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Antonio Voljavec – Yannik KELM (Ger) 0:6,2:6

Petr BRUNCLIK (Cze) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Petr Brunclik – Rashed NAWAF (Qat) 1:6,1:6

Marc MAJDANDZIC (Ger) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015 SF
1st round: Marc Majdandzic – Cooper WILLIAMS (USA) 2:6,4:6

Jovan TOMOVIC (Mne) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Jovan Tomovic – Oskar GRZEGORZEWSKI (Pol) 1:6,0:6

Chris SPYROU (Gre) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Chris Spyrou – Kyle KANG (USA) 4:6,3:6

21/01/19

9 Smrikva Bowl players are in the Main Draws of the Junior AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2019; Lorenzo MUSETTI is in the Champion

Happy to recognize 9 Smrikva Bowl players in the Main Draws of the Junior AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2019

BOYS:

Lorenzo MUSETTI (ITA) – 17th Smrikva Bowl 2012 QF
1st round: Lorenzo Musetti – Tai Sach (Aus) 6:4,6:0
2nd round: Lorenzo Musetti – P.Vang Nguyen (Vie) 6:4,6:4
3rd round: Lorenzo Musetti – Liam Draxl (Can) 6:4,7:5
Quarterfinals: Lorenzo Musetti – N.Alvarez Varona (Esp) 7:6,7:5
Semifinals: Lorenzo Musetti – G.Zeppieri (Ita) 6:2,6:4
Finals: Lorenzo Musetti – Emilio Nava (USA) 4:6,6:2,7:6

Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA (Esp) – 16th Smrikva Bowl 2011 QF
1st round: Nicolas Alvarez Varona – Louis Herman (Bel) 6:4,6:2
2nd round: Nicolas Alvarez Varona – Alexandr Binda (Rus) 6:4,7:6
3rd round: Nicolas Alvarez Varona – Jacob Fearnley (Gbr) 4:6,7:5,6:1
Quarterfinals: Nicolas Alvarez Varona – L.Musetti (Ita) 6:7,5:7

Luciano DARDERI (Ita) – 16th Smrikva Bowl 2011
1st round: Luciano Darderi – Thantub Suksumrarn (Tha) 5:7,7:6,6:2
2nd round: Luciano Darderi – Emilio Nava (USA) 1:6,5:7

Holger RUNE (DEN) – 18th Smrikva Bowl 2013
1st round: Holger Rune – Dominic Sticker (Sui) 6:3,7:5
2nd round: Holger Rune – Bu Yunchaokete (Chn) 6:7,3:6

Eric VANSHELBOIM (Ukr) – 16th Smrikva Bowl 2011
1st round: Eric Vanshelboim – Valentin Royer (Fra) 2:6,1:6

GIRLS:

Himari SATO (JPN) – 17th Smrikva Bowl 2012 winner
1st round: Himari Sato – Emma Raducanu (Gbr) 6:2,7:5
2nd round: Himari Sato – Emma Navarro (USA) 1:6,3:6

Helene PELLICANO (MLT) – 17th Smrikva Bowl 2012
1st round: Helene Pellicano – Adrienn Nagy (Hun) 3:6,1:6

Francesca CURMI (MLT) – 17th Smrikva Bowl 2012
1st round: Francesca Curmi – Annerly Poulos (Aus) 1:6,6:0,2:6

Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz (Aus) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014
1st round: Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz – S.Rogozinska (Pol) 3:6,4:6

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10/01/19

31 Smrikva Bowl players in the singles Draws at AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2019; 13 in the Main Draw

Over the last six years there were traditionally about 10 former Smrikva Bowl players at the beginning of the Junior Grand Slam Draws…

In 2013… out of eight possible first places former Smrikva Bowl players collected six first places: Ana Konjuh (Junior Australian Open and Junior US Open), Belinda Bencic (Junior Roland Garros and Junior Wimbledon), Gianluigi Quinzi (Junior Wimbledon) and Borna Coric (Junior US Open)…

… and since 2009 there are 22 Smrikva Bowl players holding 29 junior Grand Slam titles in total…

… and this time… there were 31 former Smrikva Bowl players in the Main Draws and Qualification Draws of this third Grand Slam in the season… AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2019:

In the singles Qualification Draws there were 20 players:

Nicola Kuhn, Matteo Donati, Tommy Paul, Nikola Milojevic, Alex Davidovich Fokina, Lloyd Harris, Gian Marco Moroni, Federico Gaio, Miomir Kecmanovic, Gianluigi Quinzi.

Gabriella Taylor, Katie Swan, Irina Bara, Olga Danilovic, Claire Liu, Dejana Radanovic, Ivana Jorovic, Martina Trevisan, Jana Fett, Tereza Mrdeza.

and 2 of them qualified: Lloyd Harris & Miomir Kecmanovic

in the singles Main Draws there were 13 players in total:

Borna Coric, Laslo Djere, Alexei Popyrin (WC), Dominic Thiem, Alex de Minaur, Ajla Tomljanovic, Viktoria Kuzmova, Belinda Bencic, Katie Boulter, Petra Martic,
Donna Vekic, Lloyd Harris (qualified) & Miomir Kecmanovic (qualified).

The following are the results obtained in the singles Main Draws:

Borna CORIC, 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 player, currently ranked #12 ATP, at AO 2019:

Main Draw:
1st round: B.Coric – Steve Darcis (Bel) 6:1,6:4,6:4
2nd round: B.Coric – Marton Fucsovics (Hun) 6:4,6:3,6:4
3rd round: B.Coric – Filip Krajinovic (Srb) 2:6,6:3,6:4,6:3
4th round: B.Coric – Lucas Pouille (Fra) 7:6,4:6,5:7,6:7

Players ranking:
Steve Darcis (Bel) – #315 ATP
Marton Fucsovics (Hun) – #35 ATP
Filip Krajinovic (Srb) – #92 ATP
Lucas Pouille (Fra) – #32 ATP

Alexei POPYRIN, 14th Smrikva Bowl 2009 CD winner, currently ranked #149 ATP, at AO 2019:

Main Draw:
1st round: Alexei Popyrin – Mischa Zverev (Ger) 7:6,7:6,6:4
2nd round: Alexei Popyrin – Dominic Thiem (Aut) 7:5,6:4,2:0
3rd round: Alexei Popyrin – L.Pouille (Fra) 6:7,3:6,7:6,6:4,6:3

Players ranking:
Mischa Zverev (Ger) – #68 ATP
Dominic Thiem (Aut) – #8 ATP
Lucas Pouille (Fra) – #32 ATP

Alex DE MINAUR, 14th Smrikva Bowl 2009 quarterfinalist, currently ranked #29 ATP, at AO 2019:

Main Draw:
1st round: Alex De Minaur – Pedro Sousa (Por) 6:4,7:5,6:4
2nd round: A.De Minaur – H.Laaksonen (Sui) 6:4,6:2,6:7,4:6,6:3
3rd round: Alex De Minaur – Rafael Nadal (Esp) 1:6,2:6,4:6

Players ranking:
Pedro Sousa (Por) – #103 ATP
Henri Laaksonen (Sui) – #166 ATP
Rafael Nadal (Esp) – #2 ATP

Dominic THIEM, 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003 winner, currently ranked #8 ATP, at AO 2019:

Main Draw:
1st round: Dominic Thiem – Benoit Paire (Fra) 6:4,6:3,5:7,1:6,6:3
2nd round: Dominic Thiem – Alexei Popyrin (Aus) 5:7,4:6,0:2

Players ranking:
Benoit Paire (Fra) – #55 ATP
Alexei Popyrin (Aus) – #149 ATP

Miomir KECMANOVIC, 14th Smrikva Bowl 2009, currently ranked #126 ATP, at AO 2019:

Main Draw:
1st round: Miomir Kecmanovic – Fernando Verdasco (Esp) 6:7,3:6,3:6

Qualification Draw:
1st round: Miomir Kecmanovic – Gianluigi Quinzi (Ita) 6:4,3:6,6:3
2nd round: Miomir Kecmanovic – Maxime Janvier (Fra) 6:4,7:6
3rd round: Miomir Kecmanovic – Thiago Monteiro (Bra) 6:2,6:1

Players ranking:
Gianluigi Quinzi (Ita) – #155 ATP
Maxime Janvier (Fra) – #194 ATP
Thiago Monteiro (Bra) – #127 ATP

Fernando Verdasco (Esp) – #28 ATP

Lloyd HARRIS, 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007, currently ranked #119 ATP, at AO 2019:

Main Draw:
1st round: Lloyd Harris – Daniil Medvedev (Rus) 1:6,2:6,1:6

Qualification Draw:
1st round: Lloyd Harris – Zdenek Kolar (Cze) 6:2,6:1
2nd round: Lloyd Harris – Dominik Koepfer (Ger) 7:5,6:3
3rd round: Lloyd Harris – Dustin Brown (Ger) 6:1,7:6

Players ranking:
Zdenek Kolar (Cze) – #220 ATP
Dominik Koepfer (Ger) – #161 ATP
Dustin Brown (Ger) – #257 ATP

Daniil Medvedev (Rus) – #16 ATP

Laslo DJERE, 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 runner up, currently ranked #91 ATP, at AO 2019:

Main Draw:
1st round: Laslo Djere – Evgeny Donskoy (Rus) 7:6,4:6,1:6,6:7

Players ranking:
Evgeny Donskoy (Rus) – #95 ATP

Belinda BENCIC, 11th Smrikva Bowl 2006, currently ranked #55 WTA, at AO 2019:

1st round: Belinda Bencic – Katerina Siniakova (Cze) 6:4,2:6,6:3
2nd round: Belinda Bencic – Yulia Putintseva (Kaz) 7:5,4:6,6:2
3rd round: Belinda Bencic – Petra Kvitova (Cze) 1:6,4:6

Players ranking:
Katerina Siniakova (Cze) – #36 WTA
Yulia Putintseva (Kaz) – #44 WTA
Petra Kvitova (Cze) – #8 WTA

Petra MARTIC, 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 winner, currently ranked #31 WTA, at AO 2019:

Main Draw:
1st round: Petra Martic – Heather Watson (Gbr) 6:1,6:2
2nd round: Petra Martic – Marketa Vondrousova (Cze) 6:4,7:5
3rd round: Petra Martic – Sloane Stephens (USA) 6:7,6:7

Players ranking:
Heather Watson (Gbr) – #93 WTA
Marketa Vondrousova (Cze) – #67 WTA
Sloane Stephens (USA) – #5 WTA

Viktoria KUZMOVA, 13th Smrikva Bowl 2008, currently ranked #46 WTA, at AO 2019:

Main Draw
1st round: Viktoria Kuzmova – Kateryna Kozlova (Ukr) 4:6,6:4,6:2
2nd round: Viktoria Kuzmova – Elina Svitolina (Ukr) 4:6,1:6

Players ranking:
Kateryna Kozlova (Ukr) – #97 WTA
Elina Svitolina (Ukr) – #6 WTA

Katie BOULTER, 11th Smrikva Bowl 2006, currently ranked #99 WTA, at AO 2019:

Main Draw
1st round: Katie Boulter – Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) 6:0,4:6,7:6
2nd round: Katie Boulter – Aryna Sabalenka (Blr) 3:6,4:6

Players ranking:
Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) – #57 WTA
Aryna Sabalenka (Blr) – #11 WTA

Donna VEKIC, 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 player, currently ranked #29 WTA, at AO 2019:

Main Draw:
1st round: Donna Vekic – Kristina Mladenovic (Fra) 6:2,6:4
2nd round: Donna Vekic – Kimberly Birrell (Aus) 4:6,6:4,1:6

Players ranking:
Kristina Mladenovic (Fra) – #43 WTA
Kimberly Birrell (Aus) – #249 WTA

Ajla TOMLJANOVIC, 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003, currently ranked #45 WTA, at AO 2019:

1st round: Ajla Tomljanovic – Johanna Konta (Gbr) 6:7,6:2,6:7

Players ranking:
Johanna Konta (Gbr) – #38 WTA

07/01/19

Top Smrikva Bowl and "LM"/SB players on ATP, WTA, ITF and European under 14 and 16 ranking lists (update January 2019)

Former top Smrikva Bowl players that reached certain results on the professional ranking list and the top Smrikva Bowl players current ranking.

There are 140+ players (who played Smrikva Bowl between 1996 and 2010) receiving US University scholarship thanks to their tennis skills.

22 Smrikva Bowl players hold 29 junior Grand Slam titles.

18 players reached TOP 100 ATP/WTA ranking and hold a total of 26 professional ATP/WTA titles

• 23 TOP 200 WTA Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #7 WTA (Feb 2016)
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #20 WTA (Jul 2017)
Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #26 WTA (Jan 2019)
Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #31 WTA (Jan 2019)
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- # 43 WTA (Oct 2018)
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #46 WTA (Jan 2019)
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #92 WTA (Oct 2018)
Ivana LISJAK – 1997 winner – #95 WTA (Jun 2006)
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #96 WTA (Oct 2018)
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #97 WTA (Oct 2017)

Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #121 WTA (Feb 2017)
Ivana JOROVIC – 2007 player – #134 on WTA (Oct 2016)
Clair LIU – 2010 “LM”/SB player -#138 WTA (Nov 2018)
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #139 WTA (Aug 2018)
Deborah CHIESA – 2006 player – #143 WTA (Jun 2018)
Martina TREVISAN – 2003 player – #144 WTA (Aug 2017)
Tereza MRDEZA – 2000 winner – #150 WTA (Oct 2015)
Katie SWAN – 2009 winner – #163 WTA (Oct 2018)
Gabriela TAYLOR – 2008 player – #164 WTA (Oct 2018)
Dejana RADANOVIC – 2006 player – #187 WTA (Jul 2018)

Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #55 WTA doubles (Nov 2017)
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #68 WTA (Jul 2018)
Camilla ROSATELLO – 2005 player – #134 WTA doubles (Jan 2018)
Ema BURGIC – 2002 semifinalist – #145 WTA doubles (Oct 2016)
Giorgia MARCHETTI – 2005 player – #175 WTA doubles (Oct 2018)

• 20 TOP 200 ATP Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #4 ATP (Nov 2017)
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #12 ATP (Nov 2018)
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #29 ATP (Jan 2019)
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #83 ATP (Sep 2018)
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #110 ATP (Nov 2018)
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 quarterf.- #126 ATP (Jan 2019)
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #143 ATP (Oct 2017)
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #146 ATP (Mar 2017)
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 CD winner – #148 (Nov 2018)
Tommy PAUL – 2007 “LM”/SB player – #149 ATP (Jan 2018)

Gianluigi QUINZI – 2006 winner – # 149 ATP (Nov 2018)
Matteo DONATI – 2005 winner – #159 ATP (Jul 2015)
Javier MARTI – 2002 winner – #170 ATP (Apr 2012)
Nino SERDARUSIC – 2005 player – #192 ATP (Aug 2018)
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #196 (Apr 2018)

As of 7th of January 2019 the ranking summary of the very TOP former Smrikva Bowl boys and girls is the following:

• 52 WTA players

Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #29 WTA
Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #31 WTA
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- #45 WTA
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #46 WTA
Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #55 WTA
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #99 WTA
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #109 WTA
Ivana JOROVIC – 2007 player – #117 WTA
Claire LIU – 2010 player – #139 WTA
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #155 WTA

Katie SWAN – 2009 winner – #181 WTA
Martina TREVISAN – 2003 player – #187 WTA
Gabriela TAYLOR – 2008 player – #189 WTA
Dejana RADANOVIC – 2006 player – #209 WTA
Tereza MRDEZA – 2000 winner – #218 WTA
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #220 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #233 WTA
Andreea ROSCA – 2009 player – #250 WTA
Deborah CHIESA – 2006 player – #264 WTA
Tena LUKAS – 2005 player – #269 WTA

Olga IANCHUK – 2005 runner up – #289 WTA
Jessica PIERI – 2007 player – #301 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN – 2009 player – #307 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ – 2009 player – #328 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA – 2008 player – #353 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO – 2005 player – #372 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK – 2007 player – #373 WTA
Martina CAREGARO – 2002 winner – #391 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS – 2006 quarterfinalist – #483 WTA
Miriam BULGARU – 2008 player – #487 WTA

Haruna ARAKAWA – 2008 player – #499 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO – 2007 player – #502 WTA
Lea BOSKOVIC – 2009 player – #519 WTA
Seone MENDEZ – 2009 player – #523 WTA
Pia CUK – 2006 player – #524 WTA
Ashley LAHEY – 2009 player – #527 WTA
Zoe KRUGER – 2012 semif. – #536 WTA
Angelica MORATELLI – 2004 player – #542 WTA
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #550 WTA
Tatiana PIERI – 2007 player – #555 WTA

Karin KENNEL – 2005 player – #592 WTA
Iva PRIMORAC – 2006 player – #621 WTA
Ingrid NEEL – 2008 player – #656 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI – 2005 player – #663 WTA
Oana Georgeta SIMION – 2005 player – #710 WTA
Helen PELLICANO – 2012 player -#714 WTA
Alexandra VECIC – 2011 player – 730 WTA
Michaela GORDON – 2009 player – #761 WTA
Anita HUSARIC – 2004 player – #762 WTA
Himari SATO – 2012 winner – #809 WTA

Paula ARIAS MANJON – 2010 runner up – #828 WTA
Benedetta IVALDI – 2010 player – #828 WTA

• 22 ATP players

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #8 ATP
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #12 ATP
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #29 ATP
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #91 ATP
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #119 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #126 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 cd winner – #149 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI – 2006 winner – #155 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #174 ATP
Tommy PAUL – 2007 player – #195 ATP

Matteo DONATI – 2005 winner – #205 ATP
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #210 ATP
Gian Marco MORONI – 2008 player – #227 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 semi – #241 ATP
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #246 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC – 2005 player – #260 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM – 2008 player – #407 ATP
William BLUMBERG 2008 player – #438 ATP
Robin KERN – 2002 player – #480 ATP
Patrik RIKL – 2009 player – #555 ATP

Nik RAZBORSEK – 2003 player – #598 ATP
Adrian BODMER – 2005 player – #651 ATP

• 2 players TOP 100 ATP RACE TO MILAN NEXT GEN

Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #2 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #3 ATP

NEXT GEN SB PLAYERS:
2017: Borna CORIC and Gianluigi QUINZI (WC)
2018: Alex DE MINAUR (runner up) and Lloyd HARRIS (invited)

• 11 boys and 5 girls… in total 16 players are in TOP 100 ITF

BOYS:
- #4 Lorenzo MUSETTI Junior USOPEN 2018 runner up
- #10 Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA
- #30 Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE
- #61 Erik VANSHELBOIM
- #64 Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA
- #69 Cezar CRETU
- #74 Roko HORVAT
- #85 Fabrizio ANDALORO
- #90 Alibek KACHMAZOV
- #91 Filippo MORONI
- #92 Luciano DARDERI

GIRLS:
- #43 Helen PELLICANO
- #57 Francesca CURMI
- #70 Maria TIMOFEEVA
- #78 Himari SATO
- #85 Weronika BASZAK

• 4 boys and 2 girls are in TOP 10 ETA under 16 – (Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE #1, Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA #2, Stefan POPOVIC #5, Luca NARDI #7; Antonia RUZIC #7, Maria TIMOFEEVA #10)

• 3 boys and 2 girls are in TOP 10 ETA under 14 – (Branko DJURIC #2, Dino PRIZMIC #4, Marc MAJDANDZIC #10; Linda FRUHVIRTOVA #1, Alexandra EALA #7)

Tereza MRDEZA (CRO), 5th SB 2000 winner, #218 WTA

Petra MARTIC (CRO), 6th SB 2001 winner, #31 WTA

IN 2002 SMRIKVA BOWL STARTED TO BE A EUROPEAN TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2002 – 7th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Federico GAIO (ITA), 7th SB 2002, #210 ATP
Robin KERN (GER), 7th SB 2002, #480 ATP
Javier MARTI (ESP), 7th SB 2002 winner, #170 ATP (Apr 2012)
Luca MARGAROLI (SUI), 7th SB 2002, #149 ATP doubles
Ivan SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #289 ATP doubles
Matej SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #316 ATP doubles

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO), 7th SB 2002 runner up, #45 WTA
Martina CAREGARO (ITA), 7th SB 2002 winner, #391 WTA

2003 – 8th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Dominic THIEM (AUT), 8th SB 2003 winner, #8 ATP
Nik RAZBORSEK (SLO), 8th SB 2003, #598 ATP

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO),8th SB 2003 semif., #45 WTA
Martina TREVISAN (ITA), 8th SB 2003, #187 WTA

2004 – 9th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Miki JANKOVIC (SRB), 9th SB 2004 runner up, #256 ATP (Aug 2016)
Filip VEGER (CRO), 9th SB 2004 semif, #478 ATP (Feb 2015)
Nerman FATIC (BiH), 9th SB 2004 semif, #435 ATP (Dec 2018)

GIRLS
Angelica MORATELLI (ITA), 9th SB 2004, #542 WTA
Vladica BABIC (MNE), 9th SB 2004, #847 WTA (Dec 2018)
Giada CLERICI (ITA), 2004 player, #703 WTA (Sep 2015)

IN 2005 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 3 CONTINENTS

2005 – 10th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Borna CORIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #12 ATP
Laslo DJERE (SRB), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #91 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 semif., #155 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC (SRB), 10th SB 2005 Cons.winner, #174 ATP
Matteo DONATI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 winner, #205 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #260 ATP
Adrian BODMER (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #651 ATP
Neven KRIVOKUCA (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #955 ATP (Aug 2018)

GIRLS
Donna VEKIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #29 WTA
Irina Maria BARA (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #155 WTA
Jana FETT (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #220 WTA
Tena LUKAS (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #269 WTA
Olga IANCHUK (UKR), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #289 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #372 WTA
Karin KENNEL (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #592 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #663 WTA
Oana Georgetta SIMION (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #710 WTA

2006 – 11th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 11th SB 2006 winner, #155 ATP

GIRLS
Belinda BENCIC (SUI), 11th SB 2006, #55 WTA
Katie BOULTER (UK), 11th SB 2006, #99 WTA
Dejana *RADANOVIC*(SRB), 11th SB 2006, #209 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC (SRB), 11th SB 2006, #233 WTA
Deborah CHIESA (ITA), 11th SB 2006, #264 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS (BiH), 11th SB 2006 quarterf., #483 WTA
Pia CUK (SVN) – 11th SB 2006, #524 WTA

2007 – 12th Smrikva Bowl and 6th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lloyd HARRIS (RSA), ,12th SB 2007, #119 ATP
Miguel SEMMLER (ESP), 12th SB 2007, #514 ATP (Nov 2017)
Bogdan BORZA (ROU), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #674 ATP (Jun 2018)

GIRLS
Ivana JOROVIC (SRB), 12th SB 2007, #117 WTA
Jessica PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #301 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK (SLO), 12th SB 2007 semif., #373 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO (ESP), 12th SB 2007 player – #502 WTA
Ana KONJUH (CRO), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #550 WTA
Tatiana PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #555 WTA
Chiara GRIMM (SUI), 12th SB 2007 quarterf., #539 WTA (Jul 2017)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Tommy PAUL (USA), 6th “Little Mo”/SB, #195 ATP

IN 2008 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 5 CONTINENTS AND TURNED INTO A WORLD TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2008 – 13th Smrikva Bowl and 7th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gian Marco MORONI (ITA), 13th SB 2008, #227 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM (EGY), 13th SB 2008, #407 ATP
Andrea GUERRIERI (ITA), 13th SB 2008 semif., #798 ATP (Jul 2018)
Sven LAH (SLO), 13th SB 2008, #1101 ATP (Jul 2018)

GIRLS
Viktoria KUZMOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008 semif., #46 WTA
Gabriela *TAYLOR*(UK), 13th SB 2008, #189 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN (UK), 13th SB 2008 runner up, #307 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008, #353 WTA
Nina ALIBALIC (AUS), 13th SB 2008, #475 WTA (Aug 2016)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ingrid NEEL (USA), 7th “Little Mo”/SB, #656 WTA

IN 2009 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND 1 NEW CONTINENT THEREFORE REACHED THE TOTAL OF 40 COUNTRIES AND 6 CONTINENTS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2009 – 14th Smrikva Bowl and 8th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Alex DE MINAUR (AUS), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #29 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC (SRB), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #126 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN (AUS), 14th SB 2009 Cons.winner, #149 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA (ESP), 14th SB 2009 semif., #241 ATP
Patrik RIKL (CZE), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #480 ATP
Gabi Adrian BOITAN (ROM), 14th SB 2009, #832 ATP (Sep 2018)
Karlo KRANIC (CRO), 14th SB 2009, #1263 ATP (Jul 2018)
Moritz THIEM (AUT), 14th SB 2009,#1394 ATP (Nov 2018)

GIRLS
Katie SWAN (UK), 14th SB 2009 winner, #181 WTA
Andrea Amalia ROSCA (ROU), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #250 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ (TUR), 14th SB 2009 player, #328 WTA
Haruna ARAKAWA (JPN), 14th SB 2009, #499 WTA
Seone MENDEZ (AUS), 14th SB 2009, #523 WTA
Angela FITA BOLUDA (ESP), 14th SB 2009, #843 WTA (Aug 2018)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ashley LAHEY (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #527 WTA
Michaela GORDON (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #761 WTA

IN 2010 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 49 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2010 – 15th Smrikva Bowl and 9th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Nicola KUHN (ESP), 15th SB 2010 winner, #246 ATP
Tomas MACHAC (CZE), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #534 ATP (Dec 2018)
Yshai OLIEL (ISR), 15th SB 2010 semif., #564 ATP (Apr 2018)
Rimpei KAWAKAMI (JPN), 15th SB 2010, #929 ATP (Dec 2018)
Damien WENGER (SUI), 15th SB 2010, #1553 ATP (Dec 2018)
Filippo MORONI (ITA), 15th SB 2010, #1605 ATP (May 2018)

GIRLS
Paula ARIAS MANJON (ESP), 15th SB 2010 runner up, #828 WTA
Kristina NOVAK (SLO), 15th SB 2010 semif., #921 WTA (Dec 2018)
Irina CANTOS SIEMERS (BEL), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #1048 WTA (Aug 2018)
Mihaela Lorena MARCULESCU (ROU), 15th SB 2010, #1219 WTA (Jul 2017)
Ania HERTEL (POL), 15th SB 2010, #974 WTA (Nov 2018)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Claire LIU (USA), 9th “Little Mo”/SB, #139 WTA

IN 2011 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 54 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2011 – 16th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Duje AJDUKOVIC (CRO), 16th SB 2011 winner, #754 ATP (Dec 2018)
Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA (ESP), 16th SB 2011 quarterf., #1036 ATP (Jul 2018)
Cezar CRETU (ROU), 16th SB 2011, #1580 ATP (Apr 2018)
Eric VANSHELBOIM (UKR), 16th SB 2011, #61 ITF
Mihailo POPOVIC (SRB), 16th SB 2011 runner up, #237 ITF
Marco FURLANETTO (ITA), 16th SB 2011, #374 ITF
Makary ADAMEK (POL), 16th SB 2011, #380 ITF
Stipan MADZAR (CRO), 16th SB 2011 semif., #944 ITF
Vanja DOBRNJAC (BiH), 16th SB 2011 quarterf., #1064 ITF

GIRLS
Olga DANILOVIC (SRB), 16th SB 2011 winner, #109 WTA
Alexandra VECIC (GER), 16th SB 2011, #730 WTA
Betina TOKAC (TUR), 16th SB 2011 semif., #1141 WTA (Apr 2018)
Andjela SKROBONJA (SRB), 16th SB 2011 player, #113 ITF
Iva ZELIC (CRO), 16th SB quarterf., #146 ITF
Oana Smaranda CORNEANU (ROU), 16th SB 2011, #182 ITF

2012 – 17th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lorenzo MUSETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #4 ITF
Alibek KACHMAZOV (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #90 ITF
Sebastian GIMA (ROU), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #106 ITF
Piotr PAWLAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #155 ITF
Goran ZIVOTIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 winner, #162 ITF
Viktor JOVIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 semif., #241 ITF
Michael Francis EALA (PHI), 17th SB 2012, #243 ITF
Mikolaj LORENS (POL), 17th SB 2012, #256 ITF
Peter ALAM (UK), 17th SB 2012, #388 ITF
Borna DEVALD (CRO), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #569 ITF
Felix NORDBY (NOR), 17th SB 2012, #712 ITF
Drazen PETROVIC (BiH), 17th SB 2012, not yet ranked on ITF

GIRLS
Zoe KRUGER (RSA), 17th SB 2012 semif., #536 WTA
Helene PELLICANO (MLT), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #714 WTA
Himari SATO (JPN), 17th SB 2012 winner, #809 WTA
Francesca CURMI (MLT), 17th SB 2012, #57 ITF
Maria TIMOFEEVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #70 ITF
Weronika BASZAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #85 ITF
Avelina SAYFETDINOVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #118 ITF
Charlotte OWENSBY (USA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #150 ITF
Pia LOVRIC (SLO), 17th SB 2012 semif., #160 ITF
Kristyna LAVICKOVA (CZE), 17th SB 2012, #173 ITF
Živa FALKNER (SLO), 17th SB 2012, #180 ITF
Matilde PAOLETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #241 ITF
Luisa MEYER AUF DER HEIDE (GER), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #354 ITF

IN 2013 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 63 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2013 – 18th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE (DEN), 18th SB 2013, #30 ITF
Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA (ESP), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #64 ITF
Luca NARDI (ITA), 18th SB 2013, #104 ITF
Hamad MEDJEDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013 semif., #196 ITF
Jerome KYM (SUI), 18th SB 2013, #234 ITF
Daniel RINCON (ESP), 18th SB 2013 semif., #574 ITF
Piotr KUSIEWICZ (POL), 18th SB 2013, #771 ITF
Adi DAGAN (ISR), 18th SB 2013, #843 ITF
Alejandro TURRIZIANI ALVAREZ (ESP), 18th SB 2013 winner, #933 ITF
Danilo RAICEVIC (MNE), 18th SB 2013, #1191 ITF
Stefan POPOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #1708 ITF
Filip MANDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #1780 ITF
Fran MITROVIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #1919 ITF
Gal EMERSIC POTOCNIK (SVN), 18th SB 2013, #146 ETA U16
Vojtech VEIGERT (CZE), 18th SB 2013, #231 ETA U16
Bartol BORSE (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #237 ETA U16
Lovre ERCEG (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #284 ETA U16

GIRLS
Selin Lidya SEPKEN (TUR), 18th SB 2013 semif., #187 ITF
Noa KRZNARIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013 winner, #236 ITF
Antonia RUZIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #433 ITF
Kyle BILCHEV (UK), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #581 ITF
Andjela LOPICIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #685 ITF
Kornelia HUNCAK (CRO), 18th SB 2013 semif., #292 ETA U16

IN 2014 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 2 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 65 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2014 – 19th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Mili POLJICAK (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #12 ETA U16
Kalin IVANOVSKI (MKD), 19th SB 2014, #25 ETA U16
Luka MIKRUT (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #49 ETA U16
Bor ARTNAK (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #50 ETA U16
Vilius GAUBAS (LIT), 19th SB 2014, #95 ETA U16
Raffaele MARIANI (SUI), 19th SB 2014, #105 ETA U16
Pedro RODENAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #128 ETA U16
Svetlin KEREMEDCHIEV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #131 ETA U16
Lun OBRUL (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #131 ETA U16
Carlos GUERRERO ALVAREZ (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #136 ETA U16
Nikola ZEKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #138 ETA U16
Matija SAMARDZIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #143 58 ETA U16
Dragomir DRAGANOV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #157 ETA U16
Noa VUKADIN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #159 ETA U16
William JANSEN (GBR), 19th SB 2014, #190 ETA U16
Ivan SODAN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #209 ETA U16
Patrick BRADY (THI), 19th SB 2014 winner, #224 ETA U16
Enrico BALDISSERRI (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #237 ETA U16
Dan Vasile DUTA (ROU), 19th SB 2014, #284 ETA U16
Krsta PETROVIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #368 ETA U16
Danil SOBOLIEV (UKR), 19th SB 2014 semif., #739 ETA U16
Ante CIKOJEVIC (GER), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #913 ETA U16

GIRLS
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014 semif., #19 ETA U16
Aliona FALEI (BLR), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #27 ETA U16
Patricie KUBIKOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014, #38 ETA U16
Tea LUKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014 winner, #49 ETA U16
Lucija CIRIC BAGARIC (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #83 ETA U16
Denislava GLUSHKOVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #62 ETA U16
Patricija PAUKSTYTE (LTU), 19th SB 2014, #104 ETA U16
Joelle STEUR (GER), 19th SB 2014, #139 ETA U16
Divna RATKOVIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #173 ETA U16
Carolina GOMEZ (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #223 ETA U16
Suana TUCAKOVIC (BIH), 19th SB 2014 semif., #256 ETA U16
Stela PEEVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #259 ETA U16
Anna KANTOR (HUN), 19th SB 2014, #279 ETA U16
Petja DRAME (SLO), 19th SB 2014, #307 ETA U16
Kyoka KUBO (JPN), 19th SB 2014, #314 ETA U16
Emma RIZZETTO (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #336 ETA U16
Emma VALLETTA (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #352 ETA U16
Neriya YONA (ISR), 19th SB 2014, #403 ETA U16
Irene ARTIGAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #435 ETA U16
Veronica SIRCI (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #474 ETA U16
Sarah MUELLER (GER), 19th SB 2014, #532 ETA U16

IN 2015 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 73 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2015 – 20th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Branko DJURIC (MNE), 20th SB 2015 winner, #2 ETA U14
Dino PRIZMIC (CRO), 20th SB 2015 quarterf., #4 ETA U14
Marc MAJDANDZIC (GER), 20th SB 2015 semif., #10 ETA U14
Mikalai BANKOU (BLR), 20th SB 2015, #21 ETA U14
Walker ALLEN (USA), 20th SB 2015, #51 ETA U14
Matej DODIG (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #80 ETA U14
Giacomo NOSEI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #94 ETA U14
Dimitar PENCHEV (BGR), 20th SB 2015, #94 ETA U14
Daniel ZIMMERMANN (AUT), 20th SB 2015, #98 ETA U14
Andrea MEDURI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #133 ETA U14
Federico BONDIOLI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #147 ETA U14
Jose Aless HERNANDEZ (ESP), 20th SB 2015 semif., #482 ETA U14
Iker SEVILLA (ESP), 20th SB 2015 runner up , #482 ETA U14

GIRLS
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 20th SB 2015 semif., #1 ETA U14
Alexandra EALA (PHI), 20th SB 2015 , #7 ETA U14 – Les Petits As 2018 winner
Mara GAE (ROU), 20th SB 2015 semif. ,#14 ETA U14
Alena KASATKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015 winner, #17 ETA U14
Lola RADIVOJEVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #19 ETA U14
Malwina ROWINSKA (POL), 20th SB 2015, #19 ETA U14
Klio Maria IOANNOU (CYP), 20th SB 2015, #22 ETA U14
Vanesa DANKO (HUN), 20th SB 2015, #26 ETA U14
Petra MARCINKO (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #35 ETA U14
Leticia TAROCCO (CRO), 20th SB 2015 winner, #38 ETA U14
Anastasia GRECHKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015, #50 ETA U14
Anja PETKOVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015 runner up, #50 ETA U14
Jaquelyn OGUNWALE (UK), 20th SB 2015 winner, #58 ETA U14
Anastasia NIKOLOVA (BGR), 20th SB 2015 winner, #76 ETA U14
Tena RAJKI (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #80 ETA U14
Ariana GEERLINGS (ESP), 20th SB 2015, #91 ETA U14
Lara STOJANOVSKI (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #299 ETA U14
Tara SLADAKOVIC (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #682 ETA U14

IN 2016 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 79 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2016 – 21st Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Antonio VOLJAVEC (CRO), 21st SB 2016, #16 ETA U14
Petr BRUNCLIK (CZE), 21st SB 2016 semif., #24 ETA U14
Chris SPYROU (GRE), 21st SB 2016, #28 ETA U14
Fran RAKONIC (CRO), 21st SB 2016, #29 ETA U14
Tomasz BERKIETA (POL), 21st SB 2016, #37 ETA U14
Dilhan WASANTHA (GRB), 21st SB 2016, #45 ETA U14
Andreas TIMINI (CYP), 21st SB 2016, #60 ETA U14
Max STENZER (GER), 21st SB 2016, #80 ETA U14
Pavel MARINOV (BGR), 21st SB 2016, #88 ETA U14
Nikolai BARSUKOV (GER), 21st SB 2016, #100 ETA U14
Kaylan BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 winner – Auray 2018 winner, #261 ETA U14
Meecah BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 semif., #410 ETA U14
Luis Garcia PAEZ (ESP), 21st SB 2016 runner up

GIRLS
Jovana GRUJIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016 CD winner, #42 ETA U14
Mia RISTIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016 semif. #54 ETA U14
Dunja MARIC (SRB), 21st SB 2016, #87 ETA U14
Ela Nala MILIČ (SVN), 21st SB 2016 winner, #100 ETA U14
Camilia SAMEL DRUZ (FRA), 21st SB 2016 runner up, #369 ETA U14
Yufei REN (CHN), 21st SB 2016 semif.

IN 2017 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 85 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2017 – 22nd Smrikva Bowl

GIRLS
Rositsa DENCHEVA (BGR), 22nd SB 2017 winner
Shanice ROIGNOT (FRA), 22nd SB 2017 runner up
Chu LI-YA (TWN), 22nd SB 2017 semif.
Mai GOTO (JPN), 22nd SB 2017 semif.

IN 2018 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 87 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2018 – 23rd Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Vito DARDERI (ARG), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Niels McDONALD (GER), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Žiga ŠEŠKO (SLO), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Riki IMAI (JPN), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

GIRLS
Alisa OKTIABREVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Iva LAKIĆ (MNE), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Daria KORESHKOVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Zlatina ANGELOVA (BUL), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

17/12/18

Greetings from Smrikve... Sve najljepše... Auguri 2019

Dear Smrikve friends,

It is greetings time… time to stay with loved ones… time to recall moments of the year… and time to think about new destinations to reach that may bring joy and energy to each of us…

I always believed in Smrikva Bowl kids and their families and year after year is more and more visible how beautiful this tree of life is becoming…

23 Smrikva Bowl editions… 1930 Smrikva Bowl seeds spread in 87 countries… 29 junior GRAND SLAM titles… 26 professional ATP/WTA titles… 43 players reached TOP 200 ATP/WTA ranking, 18 players TOP 100 ATP/WTA, 2 players TOP 10 ATP/WTA ranking… in the most prestige under 12, 14 tournaments there is always some Smrikva name in the finals of the Draw… over 140 players received full scholarship in the US Universities… and some Smrikva children started to build their own families in the circle of life…

It is true that to have a dream is beautiful… but is even more true that to have people, family, friends who dream with you and who share your dream bring more joy…

I would like to share today one of my old dreams that from time to time return into my mind. I started to think of it soon after the Smrikva Bowl story started… it is the Smrikve Central Court surrounded by olive trees…

Back in 2006 I made the wooden model you can see on the picture… and I would like to believe that in 2025 we might host the 30th Smrikva Bowl finals on the new central court…

A special thanks goes to all who keep visiting Smrikve and choose to return as our guests… bringing news… inviting friends to visit us… and each of your visit continues to keep alive the dream…

In Smrikve we do our best to keep improving in different directions… each of your visit is in a certain way the source of inspiration… and the inspiration was always that invisible key allowing us to give our best in building and creating another good year for Smrikve…

Long time ago the preparations for the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 edition started as well as the SBTT Family Weeks 2019 preparations. 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 edition can already be envisaged as another good year of talents…

SBTTFWs are scheduled for 3 weeks in total in 2019: 13/4/-20/4/; 21/4 – 28/4/; 14/9-21/9… and will be very special learning experiences again. The 5th edition will be guided by my friend Luca Appino, credited for scouting Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Kim Clijsters, Dinara Safina, Carolina Wozniacki (all of them scouted when they were far away from becoming #1)… both me and Luca keep looking at the tennis fronteers of tomorrow and next year weeks will be another long term development gift to our alumni.

2019 have good chances to be the year when Smrikva Bowl seeds will start to collect the first senior Grand Slam title of many to come… there are many who have the chance to open this new Smrikva Bowl chapter and this will be another moment to smirk… thinking of all precious Smrikva Bowl bottles of wine and olive oil spread around the globe…

Best wishes,

Mio

Dragi prijatelji i poznanici Smrikvi,

Prosinac je vrijeme čestitanja… vrijeme za svoje najmilije… a i vrijeme za prisjetiti se godine koja prolazi… isto tako je vrijeme za osmišljavanje novih destinacija kojima krenuti i koji mogu donijeti radosti i energije svakome od nas…

Oduvjek sam vjerovao u djecu Smrikve i svake godine se sve više i više nazire koliko predivno stablo života Smrikva postaje u svijetu…

23. Smrikva Bowl-a su iza nas… i njeno sjeme je zasijano u 87 zemalja…

Već danas djeca Smrikve posjeduju impresivan životopis… 29 juniorskih GRAND SLAM titula… 26 profesionalnih ATP/WTA titula… 43 igrača u TOP 200 ATP/WTA… 18 igrača u TOP 100 ATP/WTA… 2 igrača u TOP 10 ATP/WTA… već dugi niz godina najprestižniji turniri u svijetu do 12, 14 godina uvijek imaju ponekog sa Smrikve u završnici ždrijeba… preko 140 djece se izborilo za stipendije u SAD-u… a i polako su djeca Smrikve počela graditi svoje obitelji u krugu života…

Istina je da je divno sanjariti… ali je još više istina da imati ljude, obitelj, prijatelje koji dijele tvoje snove donosi jednu posebniju radost…

Želio bih podijeliti danas jedan od mojih dugogodišnjih snova koji se s vremena na vrijeme vraća u moj um. Počeo sam misliti o tome ubrzo nakon što je započela priča o Smrikva Bowl-u… radi se o centralnom terenu Smrikvi u parku maslina…

2006. godine napravio sam model koji se može vidjeti na slici … i želio bih vjerovati da ćemo možda 2025. godine ugostiti finale 30. Smrikva Bowl-a…

Posebno hvala svima koji nas posjećuju i odluče provesti svoj odmor kod nas… donose vijesti… prijatelje… i svaki taj posjet nastavlja održavati živim naš san…

Trudimo se biti vrijedni i napredovati u različitim smjerovima… svaki posjet je u neku ruku izvor inspiracije… a inspiracija je uvijek bila nevidljivi ključ za izgraditi još jednu dobru godinu Smrikvi…

Odavno su krenule pripreme za 24. Smrikva Bowl 2019… kao i pripreme za Smrikva Bowl Tennis Talents Family Weeks (SBTTFW) 2019. 24. Smrikva Bowl 2019 se već nazire kao još jedna posebna godina talenata.

A i obiteljski tjedan SBTTFW koji će se održati u 3 termina: 13/4/-20/4/, 21/4/-28/4/ i 14/9-21/9… je posebno razvojno iskustvo za polaznike i obitelji u duhu Smrikve koje će voditi prijatelj Luca Appino… i kojem se pripisuje otrivanje igrača poput Rafaela Nadala, Andy Roddicka, Kim Clijsters, Dinare Safina, Caroline Wozniacki (dok su bili daleko od broja 1 na svijetu)… i ja i Luca svake godine istražujemo teniske granice i sljedeća godina će ponovno biti posebna za polaznike.

Osjećam da bi 2019.ta mogla biti i godina prvog seniorskog Grand Slam od mnogih koji će doći… već je više igrača Smrikve koji imaju šansu otvoriti to novo poglavlje Smrikva Bowl-a i bio bi to divan trenutak za smješak ;)… razmišljajući o svim posebnim bocama vina i maslinovog ulja koje su raširene po svijetu…

Sve najljepše,

Mio

Cari amici di Smrikve,

E’ il tempo degli auguri… il tempo per stare insieme con i propri cari… il momento per ricordarsi dell’anno… ed il momento per pensare alle nuove destinazioni da raggiungere che possano portarci gioia ed energia…

Ho sempre creduto nei ragazzi dello Smrikva e nelle loro famiglie… ed ogni anno e’ sempre piu’ visibile la bellezza di questo albero della vita che cresce con le radici sparse in quasi tutto il mondo…

23 edizione sono dietro di noi… e 1930 semi dello Smrikva sono presenti in 87 paesi…

I ragazzi ad oggi hanno collezionato un totale di 29 titoli juniores negli GRANDE SLAM… 26 titoli professionali ATP/WTA… 43 hanno varcato la soglia dei TOP 200 ATP/WTA… 18 dei TOP 100 ATP/WTA e 2 sono entrati in TOP 10 ATP/WTA… nei tornei prestigiosi under 12,14 nel Mondo c’e sempre qualcuno che arriva alla fine del tabellone… piu’ di 140 giocatori hanno ricevuto la borsa di studio negli Stati Uniti… ed alcuni ragazzi hanno gia’ iniziato a costruire le proprie famiglie nel cerchio della vita…

E’ vero che sognare e’ bello… ma e’ ancora piu’ gioso avere la famiglia e gli amici che sognano insieme a te e ti supportano…

Vorrei condividere oggi uno dei miei vecchi sogni che di tanto in tanto mi ritorna in mente. Ho iniziato a pensarci poco dopo aver iniziato la storia dello Smrikva Bowl… si tratta del campo centrale immerso tra gli ulivi… il campo in cui mi piacerebbe ospitare le finali di Smrikva…

Nel 2006 ho fatto un modellino in legno che potete vedere nella foto … e mi piacerebbe credere che nel 2025 potremmo ospitare la finale della trentesima edizione dello Smrikva Bowl sul nuovo campo centrale…

Grazie speciale a tutti che ci visitano e scelgono di essere nostri ospiti… continuano a portare nuovi amici… e devo dire che ogni vostra visita mantiene vivo il nostro sogno…

A Smrikve cerchiamo di migliorare sempre noi stessi e le vostre visite portano inspirazione… l’inspirazione e’ sempre stata quella chiave invisibile atorno alla quale costruire un altro buon anno Smrikva…

24.esima edizione dello Smrikva Bowl 2019 e’ in fase di preparazione da diverso tempo come da tempo e’ in fase di preparazione Smrikva Bowl Tennis Talents Family Weeks (SBTTFW) 2019… posso gia’ condividere che attendiamo un’altra grande annata di talenti…

SBTTFW si terranno nelle seguenti 3 settimane: 13/4/-20/4/, 21/4/-28/4/ e 14/9-21/9… e sarranno le settimane di studio-condivisione-crescita guidate dall’amico Luca Appino, al quale va il credito d’aver firmato giocatori come Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Kim Clijsters, Dinara Safina, Carolina Wozniacki (scoperti quando erano molto lontani dal diventare #1 nel mondo)… sia io che Luca continuamo ad osservarie la frontiera del mondo tennistico di domani ed anche le settimane dell’anno che viene saranno un regalo speciale ai nostri alumni.

2019 potrebbe essere l’anno del primo Grand Slam seniores tra i molti che veranno… ci sono ormai diversi ragazzi che abbiano le possibilita’ di farlo e di aprire questo nuovo capitolo dello Smrikva e sarebbe un speciale momento per sorridere ;)… pensando anche a tutte quelle speciali bottiglie di vino ed olio Smrikva sparsi nel giro per il mondo…

Auguri,

Mio

12/12/18

35 Top Smrikva Bowl players on 57th Junior Orange Bowl 2018 edition... Shanice Roignot, Antonio Voljavec and Kaylan Bigun reached the semifinals

Over the last 7 years Smrikva Bowl players made good results at ORANGE BOWL (2010-2017) and have won various times…

Under 18
George MORGAN – 8th SB 2003 runner up – winner 2010
Dominic THIEM – 8th SB 2003 winner – winner 2011
Laslo DJERE – 10th SB 2005 runner up – winner 2012
Ana KONJUH – 12th SB 2007 runner up – winner 2012
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 14th SB 2009 quarterf. – winner 2015
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 14th SB 2009 quarterf.- winner 2016

Under 14
Maia LUMSDEN – 13th SB 2008 runner up – winner 2012
Claire LIU –“Little Mo”/SB 2010 player – winner 2013
Yshai OLIEL – 15th SB 2010 semifinalist – winner 2014

Under 12
Claire LIU –“Little Mo”/SB 2010 player – winner 2011
Yshai OLIEL – 15th SB 2010 semif. – winner 2012
Borna DEVALD – 17th SB 2012 quarterf. – winner 2014
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015 semif. – winner 2017

This week the 57th edition of the Junior ORANGE BOWL 2018 is played for the under 12 and under 14 age groups and several top Smrikva Bowl players I recognized in the Main Draws…

Girls:

GIRLS UNDER 12

Shanice Roignot (FRA) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017 runner up
1st round: Shanice Roignot – Liya Chu (TWN) 6:4,6:2
2nd round: Shanice Roignot – Kaitlin Quevedo (USA) 6:1,6:1
3rd round: Shanice Roignot – Esther Vyrlan (USA) 6:3,6:3
4th round: Shanice Roignot – Antonia Vergara (CHL) 6:1,3:6,6:1
Quarterfinals: Shanice Roignot – Ela Nala Milic (SVN) 7:6,7:6
Semifinals: Shanice Roignot – Brooklyn Olson (USA) 1:6,2:6

Ela Nala Milic (SVN) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016 winner
1st round: Ela Nala Milic – Yahui Hu (CHN) 7:6,6:4
2nd round: Ela Nala Milic – Duanrui Gao (CHN) 6:3,6:2
3rd round: Ela Nala Milic – Marie-Lee Gregoire (CAN) 6:4,6:3
4th round: Ela Nala Milic – Erica Jessel (USA) 6:1,7:5
Quarterfinals: Ela Nala Milic – Shanice Roignot (FRA) 6:7,6:7

Ena Koike (JPN) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Ena Koike – Mia Lauaki (COK) 6:2,6:1
2nd round: Ena Koike – Brooke Wrigley (USA) 6:4,6:0
3rd round: Ena Koike – Emma Tutoveanu (CAN) 6:0,6:1
4th round: Ena Koike – Valerija Kargina (LVA) 2:6,6:7

Yufei Ren (CHN) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016 semif.
1st round: Yufei Ren – Maria Gell (DOM) 7:5,6:3
2nd round: Yufei Ren – Brunelle Kouam (USA) 6:2,6:1
3rd round: Yufei Ren – Hayu Kinoshita (JPN) 6:2,4:6,4:6

*Chisato Kanemaki*(JPN) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Chisato Kanemaki – Sofia Corte-Real (POR) 6:0,6:1
2nd round: Chisato Kanemaki – M.Miroshnichenko (USA) 2:6,1:6

Milana Dejanovic (AUS) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Milana Dejanovic – E.Sartz-Lunde (NOR) 7:6,6:3
2nd round: Milana Dejanovic – Erica Jessel (USA) 6:7,3:6

Jovana Grujic (SRB) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016 CD winner
1st round: Jovana Grujic – Emmi Kolyszko (USA) 6:4,6:4
2nd round: Jovana Grujic – Isabella Marquart (USA) 5:7,6:3,3:6

Sapir Cohen (ISR) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Sapir Cohen – Sara Saito (JPN) 3:6,6:4,5:7

Liya Chu (TWN) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017 semif.
1st round: Liya Chu – Shanice Roignot (FRA) 4:6,2:6

GIRLS UNDER 14

Mao Mushika (JPN) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Mao Mushika – Tsehay Driscoll (USA) 6:3,6:3
2nd round: Mao Mushika – Hannah Chambers (BRB) 5:7,1:6

Kyoka Kubo (JPN) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014
1st round: Kyoka Kubo – Isabella Brilliant (USA) 6:1,6:0
2nd round: Kyoka Kubo – Victoria Mboko (CAN) 3:6,6:3,1:6

Mio Mushika (JPN) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Mio Mushika – A.C.Montalvo Lundy (MEX) 6:2,6:2
2nd round: Mio Mushika – Natalie Block (USA) 2:6,6:3,4:6

Anja Petkovic (SRB) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015 runner up
1st round: Anja Petkovic – Honoka Umeda (JPN) 6:4,6:3
2nd round: Anja Petkovic – - Solana Sierra (ARG) 3:6,3:6

Emma Roeck (USA) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Emma Roeck – Yayi Yang (TWN) 2:6,5:7

Neriya Yona (ISR) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014
1st round: Neriya Yona – Reya Coe (USA) 6:7,3:6

Rania Music (BIH) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Rania Music – Grace Levelston (USA) 1:6,2:6

Leticia Tarocco (CRO) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015
1st round: Leticia Tarocco – Solana Sierra (ARG) 5:7,2:6

Florentine Dekkers (NLD) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014
1st round: Florentine Dekkers – I. Simme (USA) 6:4,4:6,1:6

Boys:

BOYS UNDER 12

Antonio Voljavec (CRO) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Antonio Voljavec – Paris Pouatcha (USA) 6:2,6:2
2nd round: Antonio Voljavec – Fumin Jiang (CHN) 6:0,6:0
3rd round: Antonio Voljavec – Kosuke Asada (JPN) 6:2,7:5
4th round: Antonio Voljavec – Petr Brunclik (CZE) 5:7,7:5,6:1
Quarterfinals: Antonio Voljavec – Quang Duong (USA) 6:3,6:3
Semifinals: Antonio Voljavec – Rudy Quan (USA) 3:6,1:6

Kaylan Bigun (USA) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016 winner
1st round: Kaylan Bigun – Fran Rakonic (CRO) 6:1,6:3
2nd round: Kaylan Bigun – T.dos Santos Guglieri (BRA) 6:0,6:2
3rd round: Kaylan Bigun – Yubel Ubri (USA) 7:5,3:6,7:5
4th round: Kaylan Bigun – Meecah Bigun (USA) 6:4,6:4
Quarterfinals: Kaylan Bigun – Alexander Razeghi (USA) 4:6,7:6,7:6
Semifinals: Kaylan Bigun – Santiago Muhala (USA) 2:6,2:6

Meecah Bigun (USA) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016 semif.
1st round: Meecah Bigun – F.Castro Loedel (ECU) 6:0,6:1
2nd round: Meecah Bigun – Augusto Machado (BRA) 6:1,6:0
3rd round: Meecah Bigun – Maximo Zeitune (ARG) 6:2,6:2
4th round: Meecah Bigun – Kaylan Bigun (USA) 4:6,4:6

Petr Brunclik (CZE) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016 semifinalist
1st round: Petr Brunclik – S.P.-Jo Kamendje (CAN) 6:3,6:7,6:0
2nd round: Petr Brunclik – Nathan Blokhin (USA) 6:2,3:6,6:1
3rd round: Petr Brunclik – Lucca Guercio (ARG) 6:2,6:1
4th round: Petr Brunclik – Antonio Voljavec (CRO) 7:5,5:7,1:6

Dilhan Wasantha (GBR) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Dilhan Wasantha – Ege Topkoc (UAE) 6:2,6:3
2nd round: Dilhan Wasantha – Santiago Muhala (USA) 2:6,3:6

Zach Stephens (GBR) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Zach Stephens – Danny Yassine (CAN) 3:6,4:6

Fran Rakonic (CRO) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Fran Rakonic – Kaylan Bigun (USA) 1:6,3:6

Max Stenzer (GER) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Max Stenzer – Changmin Ryu (KOR) 1:6,1:6

Dominick Mosejczuk (USA) – 22nd Smrikva Bowl 2017
1st round: Dominick Mosejczuk- Rafael Botran (GUA) 2:6,0:6

Sergej Zivkovic (SRB) – 21st Smrikva Bowl 2016
1st round: Sergej Zivkovic – Abhinav Chunduru (USA) 0:6,1:6

BOYS UNDER 14

Mili Poljicak (CRO) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014 quarterf.
1st round: Mili Poljicak – Piero Fernandez (CHL) 6:7,6:2,7:6
2nd round: Mili Poljicak – Majun Li (CHN) 5:7,6:2,6:0
3rd round: Mili Poljicak – M.A.Vergara Del Puerto (PAR) 6:3,6:1
4th round: Mili Poljicak – Adolfo Vallejo (PAR) 6:3,6:1
Quarterfinals: Mili Poljicak – Bruno Kuzuhara (USA) 4:6,2:6

Pedro Rodenas (ESP) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014
1st round: Pedro Rodenas – Garen Spicka (USA) 7:5,6:3
2nd round: Pedro Rodenas – M.Wei Kang Leong (MYS) 6:4,6:4
3rd round: Pedro Rodenas – Fnu Nidunjianzan (USA) 7:5,2:6,3:6

Luka Mikrut (CRO) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014
1st round: Luka Mikrut – Jake Evans (GBR) 6:0,6:0
2nd round: Luka Mikrut – Vishesh Patel (IND) 6:2,6:3
3rd round: Luka Mikrut – James Rico (USA) 6:4,6:7,1:4 ret.

Noa Vukadin (CRO) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014
1st round: Noa Vukadin – Leanid Boika (USA) 6:2,4:6,6:1
2nd round: Noa Vukadin – John Kim (USA) 1:6,0:6

Andrew Salu (USA) – 20th Smrikva Bowl 2015 quarterf.
1st round: Andrew Salu – Wil Jenkins (GBR) 1:6,1:6

Bor Artnak (SVN) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014
1st round: Bor Artnak – Sebastian Gorzny (USA) 4:6,3:7

Patrick Brady (GBR) – 19th Smrikva Bowl 2014 winner
1st round: Patrick Brady – Adolfo Vallejo (PAR) 1:6,4:6

Please visit www.smrikve.com to learn more about Smrikve, Istria from Smrikve, Smrikva Bowl, one of the most important under 10 tennis tournaments in the World, and Villa Smrikve, for your accommodation with swimming pool in Stinjan (Pula – Pola) if you decide to spent your holiday in Istria, Croatia.

20/11/18

Recently ISMCA - International Sport Mental Coach Association Certification class and the 20th International Tennis Symposium was held at Centro Pavesi in Milan (Italy)

From 8th of November till 11th of November there were several significant events taking place in Milan: Next Gen Finals event, ISMCA – International Sport Mental Coach Association Certification class and the 20th International Tennis Symposium promoted by Pro Camp MGM Italia, UISP and GPTCA.

It was for me the first time at Next Gen… last year two Smrikva Bowl players participated: Borna Coric and Gianluigi Quinzi…

… and this year was the year of Alex De Minaur… and Lloyd Harris was invited in case a replacement was needed… to see Alex play was such an experience… and also to meet mom Esther and the family at the event made the visit to Next Gen special for me…

Alberto Castellani recently founded ISMCA – International Sport Mental Coach Association… years ago he founded also GPTCA and is one of the 50 ATP level coaches with important passion and experience in high level mental training… it was a pleasure to attend the certification class… getting several inspiring ideas to implement with Smrikva Bowl seeds of the Legends from the class…

Stefano Lopopolo presented the Self Talk tool…

… and Alberto Castellani continued with explaining how to work on individual mental development plan for a player…

sharing also various exercises and tools such as visualization… imagery…

… as we all know in tennis most of the time the players are not playing and Federico Di Carlo made a very nice session on managing breaks between points…

Manuela Caputi with support of the ex physical trainer of Novak Djokovic, Marco Panichi, presented a very nice and interesting session on Focusing and Bioenergetic Counseling…

… Alberto presented again several on court tools related with attention and concentration… focusing…

visualization… breathing…

… it was also a pleasure to see with Marco Panichi some physical exercises…

Salvatore Buzzelli made an over 30 years research on some elements that today proves him being right on energy cost of attention…

a lot of new ideas to work on I treasured from this experience…

After International Sport Mental Coach Association Certification class I also attended in Milan the 20th International Tennis Symposium… and as per tradition the Symposium gathered many interesting speakers and it was again an opportunity to learn something new…

Over the years I had pleasure to attend over 30 international coaching events… and hear over 140 coaches… and every time I had a pleasure to learn at least one new thing… and it was the case this time again …

This year the event was promoted by Pro CAMP MGMG Italia and sponsored again by UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per tutti) and GPTCA (Global Professional Tennis Coach Association)…

After the welcome word of the Symposium president Mr. Massimo Rossi

and two inspiring coaches Alberto Castellani and Erasmo Palma who’s organisations are supporting this event…

The speakers also included: Vincenzo SANTOPADRE, Lucio CAPRIOLI, Christian PERONE, Raffaele TATARANNI, Francesca DELLA MORA, Massimo RAPETTI, Luca ORTHMANN, Apostolos TSITSIPAS, Olivera ZAJELAC, Christian ZUGER, Gustavo SPECTOR,…

and the main theme was “THE NEXT-GEN TENNIS”…

Massimo RAPETTI spoke about the importance of balance diet for a sport player and this subject is more and more becoming core element of every player who would like to maximize its own potential… and being Rapetti employee of Enervit he presented a bit various integration possibilities before, during and after the competition…

… traditionally the Symposium presented cases of players path… and this time Vincenzo SANTOPADRE the coach of Matteo Berrettini presented their path… it was a very nice presented story… with focus on individual path… individual timing related with several family, personal elements…

Alberto CASTELLANI and Lucio CAPRIOLI presented Egograms application… the first possibility to give a numeric element to a mental element in a tennis match… it is a pioneer approach that may see a further evolution with Kitros software company… and for the moment is something that make you think about… to read the invisible force in the match via Parents, Adult, Child behavior scheme… and the impact that each behavior may have on players performance…

… the skeleton and muscles are in every players career a very sensitive element and injuries treatment are like food, technique, physical, mental preparation part of the sport… and Luca ORTHMANN from La Mamba company presented their last research achievements that may be of help to players that need the support of a particular articulation after a recovery or as per prevention use…

Christian PERONE is a physical trainer and made a very nice presentation of differences what and how to train and various development stages a talented junior player…

… technology support is more and more present in sport… and match analysis is becoming more and more an actual subject… as it was video analysis when the technology become available to everyone… and Raffaele TATARANNI and Francesca DELLA MORA presented their video indexing model which will for sure with technology evolution continue to evolve fast and the cost to use it will continue to decrease…

Erasmo PALMA has always very interesting presentations… how to make things easy, with pleasure and at the same time at high quality level… he does at every level from the first contact with tennis at very young age till high level professional…

… the second big case study – testimony of this year symposium came from Apostolos TSITSIPAS father of a rising tennis star Stefanos… and together with him was his current nutrition advisor Olivera ZAJELAC…

Apostolos answered for couple of hours to questions of the audience sharing a very inspiring story his family with his son is going through…

… and in the afternoon he shared a typical training session when they are on the tour…

Christian ZUGER is the founder of Kitris, a company which provides match and video analysis software, and this was almost the last presentation of the symposium… great technology at good price which may boost and spread this new tool…

and the symposium was concluded with a very nice presentation on Padel… a great game rising in several parts of the world and a kind of little cousin of the tennis game…

It was another Symposium “good year”… :)

05/11/18

Top Smrikva Bowl and "LM"/SB players on ATP, WTA, ITF and European under 14 and 16 ranking lists (update November 2018)

Former top Smrikva Bowl players that reached certain results on the professional ranking list and the top Smrikva Bowl players current ranking.

There are 130+ players (who played Smrikva Bowl between 1996 and 2009) receiving US University scholarship thanks to their tennis skills.

22 Smrikva Bowl players hold 29 junior Grand Slam titles.

• 23 TOP 200 WTA Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #7 WTA (Feb 2016)
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #20 WTA (Jul 2017)
Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #32 WTA (Oct 2018)
Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #34 WTA (Oct 2018)
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- # 43 WTA (Oct 2018)
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #54 WTA (Jul 2018)
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #92 WTA (Oct 2018)
Ivana LISJAK – 1997 winner – #95 WTA (Jun 2006)
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #96 WTA (Oct 2018)
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #97 WTA (Oct 2017)

• 20 TOP 200 ATP Smrikva Bowl Players Club with their best historical ranking:

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #4 ATP (Nov 2017)
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #12 ATP (Nov 2018)
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #31 ATP (Oct 2018)
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #83 ATP (Sep 2018)
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #110 ATP (Nov 2018)
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 quarterf.- #133 ATP (Nov 2018)
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #143 ATP (Oct 2017)
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #146 ATP (Mar 2017)
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 CD winner – #148 (Nov 2018)
Tommy PAUL – 2007 “LM”/SB player – #149 ATP (Jan 2018)

As of 5th of November 2018 the ranking summary of the very TOP former Smrikva Bowl boys and girls is the following:

• 54 WTA players TOP 1000 WTA

Petra MARTIC – 2001 winner – #32 WTA
Donna VEKIC – 2003-2005 player – #34 WTA
Belinda BENCIC – 2006 player – #37 WTA
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC – 2003 semif.- #43 WTA
Viktoria KUZMOVA – 2008 semifinalist – #56 WTA
Katie BOULTER – 2006 player – #100 WTA
Olga DANILOVIC – 2011 winner – #103 WTA
Claire LIU – 2010 player – #138 WTA
Irina Maria BARA – 2005 player – #141 WTA
Gabriela TAYLOR – 2008 player – #164 WTA

Katie SWAN – 2009 winner – #176 WTA
Ivana JOROVIC – 2007 player – #185 WTA
Martina TREVISAN – 2003 player – #195 WTA
Dejana RADANOVIC – 2006 player – #205 WTA
Jana FETT – 2005 player – #206 WTA
Tereza MRDEZA – 2000 winner – #208 WTA
Andreea ROSCA – 2009 player – #232 WTA
Deborah CHIESA – 2006 player – #234 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC – 2006 player – #244 WTA
Tena LUKAS – 2005 player – #256 WTA

Olga IANCHUK – 2005 runner up – #276 WTA
Jessica PIERI – 2007 player – #313 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ – 2009 player – #358 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK – 2007 player – #364 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN – 2009 player – #376 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA – 2008 player – #397 WTA
Angelica MORATELLI – 2004 player – #412 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO – 2005 player – #414 WTA
Ana KONJUH – 2007 runner up – #418 WTA
Miriam BULGARU – 2008 player – #425 WTA

Martina CAREGARO – 2002 winner – #450 WTA
Lea BOSKOVIC – 2009 player – #456 WTA
Oana Georgeta SIMION – 2005 player – #466 WTA
Haruna ARAKAWA – 2008 player – #490 WTA
Seone MENDEZ – 2009 player – #499 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS – 2006 quarterfinalist – #515 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO – 2007 player – #530 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI – 2005 player – #599 WTA
Karin KENNEL – 2005 player – #611 WTA
Pia CUK – 2006 player – #613 WTA

Ashley LAHEY – 2009 player – #617 WTA
Tatiana PIERI – 2007 player – #646 WTA
Zoe KRUGER – 2012 semif. – #683 WTA
Iva PRIMORAC – 2006 player – #700 WTA
Ingrid NEEL – 2008 player – #707 WTA
Silvia NJIRIC – 2002 runner up – #736 WTA
Paula ARIAS MANJON – 2010 runner up – #803 WTA
Vladica BABIC – 2004 player – #862 WTA
Helen PELLICANO – 2012 player -#905 WTA
Alexandra VECIC – 2011 player – #941 WTA

Kristina NOVAK, 2010 player, #951 WTA
Michaela GORDON – 2009 player – #962 WTA
Ena KAJEVIC – 2006 player – #991 WTA
Nina ALIBALIC – 2008 player – #994 WTA

• 31 players TOP 1000 ATP

Dominic THIEM – 2003 winner – #8 ATP
Borna CORIC – 2005 player – #12 ATP
Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #31 ATP
Laslo DJERE – 2005 runner up – #92 ATP
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #110 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #133 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 cd winner – #148 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI – 2006 winner – #149 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC – 2005 CD winner – #172 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC – 2005 player – #210 ATP

Tommy PAUL – 2007 player – #222 ATP
Matteo DONATI – 2005 winner – #225 ATP
Gian Marco MORONI – 2008 player – #226 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 semi – #233 ATP
Federico GAIO – 2002 player – #242 ATP
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #278 ATP
Patrik RIKL – 2009 player – #448 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM – 2008 player – #480 ATP
Nik RAZBORSEK – 2003 player – #507 ATP
Nerman FATIC – 2004 semifinalist- #557 ATP

Yshai OLIEL – 2010 semifinals – #606 ATP
Miguel SEMMLER – 2007 player – #633 ATP
Adrian BODMER – 2005 player – #696 ATP
Robin KERN – 2002 player – #733 ATP
Javier MARTI – 2002 winner – #742 ATP
Bogdan BORZA – 2007 runner up – #801 ATP
Gabi Adrian BOITAN – 2009 player – #843 ATP
Duje AJDUKOVIC – 2011 winner – #855 ATP
William BLUMBERG 2008 player – #868 ATP
Andrea GUERRIERI – 2008 player – #875 ATP

Rimpei KAWAKAMI – 2010 player – #977 ATP

• 10 players TOP 100 ATP RACE TO MILAN NEXT GEN

Alex DE MINAUR – 2009 player – #4 ATP
Lloyd HARRIS – 2007 player – #13 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN – 2009 player – #17 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC – 2009 player – #20 ATP
Gian Marco MORONI – 2008 player – #22 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA – 2009 semi – #28 ATP
Tommy PAUL – 2007 player – #35 ATP
Nicola KUHN – 2010 winner – #41 ATP
Patrik RIKL – 2009 player – #70 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM – 2008 player – #89 ATP

NEXT GEN SB PLAYERS:
2017: Borna CORIC and Gianluigi QUINZI (WC)
2018: Alex DE MINAUR and Lloyd HARRIS (invited)

• 7 boys and 5 girls… in total 12 players are in TOP 100 ITF

BOYS:
- #8 Lorenzo MUSETTI Junior USOPEN 2017 runner up
- #24 Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA
- #37 Damien WENGER
- #59 Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE
- #87 Erik VANSHELBOIM
- #93 Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA
- #98 Cezar CRETU

GIRLS:
- #58 Himari SATO
- #59 Helen PELLICANO
- #65 Maria TIMOFEEVA
- #71 Francesca CURMI
- #98 Anna HERTEL

• 3 boys are in TOP 10 ETA under 16 – (Lorenzo MUSETTI #1, Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA #6, Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE #7)

• 2 boys and 2 girls are in TOP 10 ETA under 14 – (Mili POLJICAK #1, Kalin IVANOVSKI #5, Linda FRUHVIRTOVA #1, Aliona FALEI #6)

Vilim VISAK (CRO), 1st SB 1996 winner, best ranking #612 ATP (Mar 2006)
Ivana LISJAK (CRO), 2nd SB 1997 winner, best ranking #95 WTA (Jun 2006)
Astrid BESSER (ITA), 4th SB 1999 winner, best ranking #356 WTA (Mar 2009)

Tereza MRDEZA (CRO), 5th SB 2000 winner, #208 WTA
Adelchi VIRGILI (ITA), 5th SB 2000 winner, #1183 ATP

Marin DRAGANJA (CRO), 6th SB 2001 winner, best ranking #20 ATP doubles (Apr 2015)
Dino MARCAN (CRO), 6th SB 2001 runner up, best ranking #87 ATP doubles (May 2017)
Petra MARTIC (CRO), 6th SB 2001 winner, #32 WTA

IN 2002 SMRIKVA BOWL STARTED TO BE A EUROPEAN TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2002 – 7th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Federico GAIO (ITA), 7th SB 2002, #242 ATP
Robin KERN (GER), 7th SB 2002, #733 ATP
Javier MARTI (ESP) – 7th SB 2002 winner – #742 ATP
Luca MARGAROLI (SUI), 7th SB 2002, #149 ATP doubles
Ivan SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #232 ATP doubles
Matej SABANOV (CRO), 7th SB 2002 semif., #257 ATP doubles

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO), 7th SB 2002 runner up, #43 WTA
Martina CAREGARO (ITA), 7th SB 2002 winner, #450 WTA

2003 – 8th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Dominic THIEM (AUT), 8th SB 2003 winner, #8 ATP
Nik RAZBORSEK (SLO), 8th SB 2003, #507 ATP

GIRLS
Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (CRO),8th SB 2003 semif., #43 WTA
Martina TREVISAN (ITA), 8th SB 2003, #195 WTA

2004 – 9th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Miki JANKOVIC (SRB), 9th SB 2004 runner up, #256 ATP (Aug 2016)
Filip VEGER (CRO), 9th SB 2004 semif, #478 ATP (Feb 2015)
Nerman FATIC (BiH), 9th SB 2004 semif, #557 ATP

GIRLS
Angelica MORATELLI (ITA), 9th SB 2004, #412 WTA
Vladica BABIC (MNE), 9th SB 2004, #862 WTA
Giada CLERICI (ITA), 2004 player, #703 WTA (Sep 2015)

IN 2005 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 3 CONTINENTS

2005 – 10th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Borna CORIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #12 ATP
Laslo DJERE (SRB), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #92 ATP
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 semif., #149 ATP
Nikola MILOJEVIC (SRB), 10th SB 2005 Cons.winner, #172 ATP
Nino SERDARUSIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #210 ATP
Matteo DONATI (ITA), 10th SB 2005 winner, #225 ATP
Adrian BODMER (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #696 ATP
Neven KRIVOKUCA (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #1002 ATP

GIRLS
Donna VEKIC (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #34 WTA
Irina Maria BARA (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #141 WTA
Jana FETT (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #206 WTA
Tena LUKAS (CRO), 10th SB 2005, #256 WTA
Olga IANCHUK (UKR), 10th SB 2005 runner up, #276 WTA
Camilla ROSATELLO (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #414 WTA
Oana Georgetta SIMION (ROM), 10th SB 2005, #466 WTA
Giorgia MARCHETTI (ITA), 10th SB 2005, #599 WTA
Karin KENNEL (SUI), 10th SB 2005, #611 WTA

2006 – 11th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA), 11th SB 2006 winner, #149 ATP

GIRLS
Belinda BENCIC (SUI), 11th SB 2006, #37 WTA
Katie BOULTER (UK), 11th SB 2006, #100 WTA
Dejana *RADANOVIC*(SRB), 11th SB 2006, #205 WTA
Deborah CHIESA (ITA), 11th SB 2006, #234 WTA
Nina STOJANOVIC (SRB), 11th SB 2006, #244 WTA
Dea HERDZELAS (BiH), 11th SB 2006 quarterf., #515 WTA
Pia CUK (SVN) – 11th SB 2006, #613 WTA

2007 – 12th Smrikva Bowl and 6th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lloyd HARRIS (RSA), ,12th SB 2007, #110 ATP
Miguel SEMMLER (ESP), 12th SB 2007, #633 ATP
Bogdan BORZA (ROU), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #801 ATP

GIRLS
Ivana JOROVIC (SRB), 12th SB 2007, #185 WTA
Jessica PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #313 WTA
Nina POTOCNIK (SLO), 12th SB 2007 semif., #364 WTA
Ana KONJUH (CRO), 12th SB 2007 runner up, #418 WTA
Maria GUTIERREZ CARRASCO (ESP), 12th SB 2007 player – #530 WTA
Tatiana PIERI (ITA), 12th SB 2007, #646 WTA
Chiara GRIMM (SUI), 12th SB 2007 quarterf., #539 WTA (Jul 2017)

“Little Mo” TEAM
Tommy PAUL (USA), 6th “Little Mo”/SB, #222 ATP

IN 2008 SMRIKVA BOWL GATHERED TOP TENNIS TALENTS FROM 5 CONTINENTS AND TURNED INTO A WORLD TENNIS TALENTS GATHERING

2008 – 13th Smrikva Bowl and 7th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Gian Marco MORONI (ITA), 13th SB 2008, #226 ATP
Youssef HOSSAM (EGY), 13th SB 2008, #480 ATP
Andrea GUERRIERI (ITA), 13th SB 2008 semif., #875 ATP
Sven LAH (SLO), 13th SB 2008, #1539 ATP

GIRLS
Viktoria KUZMOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008 semif., #56 WTA
Gabriela *TAYLOR*(UK), 13th SB 2008, #164 WTA
Maia LUMSDEN (UK), 13th SB 2008 runner up, #376 WTA
Tereza MIHALIKOVA (SVK), 13th SB 2008, #397 WTA
Nina ALIBALIC (AUS), 13th SB 2008, #994 WTA

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ingrid NEEL (USA), 7th “Little Mo”/SB, #707 WTA

IN 2009 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND 1 NEW CONTINENT THEREFORE REACHED THE TOTAL OF 40 COUNTRIES AND 6 CONTINENTS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2009 – 14th Smrikva Bowl and 8th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Alex DE MINAUR (AUS), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #31 ATP
Miomir KECMANOVIC (SRB), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #133 ATP
Alexei POPYRIN (AUS), 14th SB 2009 Cons.winner, #148 ATP
Alejandro DAVIDOVICH FOKINA (ESP), 14th SB 2009 semif., #233 ATP
Patrik RIKL (CZE), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #448 ATP
Gabi Adrian BOITAN (ROM), 14th SB 2009, #843 ATP
Karlo KRANIC (CRO), 14th SB 2009, #1291 ATP
Moritz THIEM (AUT), 14th SB 2009,#1536 ATP

GIRLS
Katie SWAN (UK), 14th SB 2009 winner, #176 WTA
Andrea Amalia ROSCA (ROU), 14th SB 2009 quarterf., #232 WTA
Berfu CENGIZ (TUR), 14th SB 2009 player, #358 WTA
Haruna ARAKAWA (JPN), 14th SB 2009, #490 WTA
Seone MENDEZ (AUS), 14th SB 2009, #499 WTA
Angela FITA BOLUDA (ESP), 14th SB 2009, #1013 WTA

“Little Mo” TEAM
Ashley LAHEY (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #617 WTA
Michaela GORDON (USA), 8th “Little Mo”/SB, #962 WTA

IN 2010 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 49 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2010 – 15th Smrikva Bowl and 9th“Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Nicola KUHN (ESP), 15th SB 2010 winner, #278 ATP
Yshai OLIEL (ISR), 15th SB 2010 semif., #606 ATP
Rimpei KAWAKAMI (JPN), 15th SB 2010, #977 ATP
Tomas MACHAC (CZE), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #1172 ATP
Filippo MORONI (ITA), 15th SB 2010, #1720 ATP
Damien WENGER (SUI), 15th SB 2010, #1720 ATP

GIRLS
Paula ARIAS MANJON (ESP), 15th SB 2010 runner up, #803 WTA
Kristina NOVAK (SLO), 15th SB 2010 semif., #951 WTA
Irina CANTOS SIEMERS (BEL), 15th SB 2010 quarterf., #1135 WTA
Mihaela Lorena MARCULESCU (ROU), 15th SB 2010, #1224 WTA
Ania HERTEL (POL), 15th SB 2010, #982 WTA doubles

“Little Mo” TEAM
Claire LIU (USA), 9th “Little Mo”/SB, #138 WTA

IN 2011 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 54 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION

2011 – 16th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Duje AJDUKOVIC (CRO), 16th SB 2011 winner, #855 ATP
Nicolas ALVAREZ VARONA (ESP), 16th SB 2011 quarterf., #1062 ATP
Cezar CRETU (ROU), 16th SB 2011, #1642 ATP
Eric VANSHELBOIM (UKR), 16th SB 2011, #87 ITF
Mihailo POPOVIC (SRB), 16th SB 2011 runner up, #341 ITF
Makary ADAMEK (POL), 16th SB 2011, #492 ITF
Marco FURLANETTO (ITA), 16th SB 2011, #970 ITF
Stipan MADZAR (CRO), 16th SB 2011 semif., #1051 ITF
Vanja DOBRNJAC (BiH), 16th SB 2011 quarterf., #1410 ITF

GIRLS
Olga DANILOVIC (SRB), 16th SB 2011 winner, #103 WTA
Alexandra VECIC (GER), 16th SB 2011, #941 WTA
Betina TOKAC (TUR), 16th SB 2011 semif., #1199 WTA
Andjela SKROBONJA (SRB), 16th SB 2011 player, #130 ITF
Iva ZELIC (CRO), 16th SB quarterf., #140 ITF
Oana Smaranda CORNEANU (ROU), 16th SB 2011, #173 ITF

2012 – 17th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Lorenzo MUSETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #8 ITF
Alibek KACHMAZOV (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #135 ITF
Sebastian GIMA (ROU), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #153 ITF
Piotr PAWLAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #214 ITF
Goran ZIVOTIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 winner, #227 ITF
Michael Francis EALA (PHI), 17th SB 2012, #315 ITF
Viktor JOVIC (SRB), 17th SB 2012 semif., #328 ITF
Mikolaj LORENS (POL), 17th SB 2012, #401 ITF
Peter ALAM (UK), 17th SB 2012, #636 ITF
Felix NORDBY (NOR), 17th SB 2012, #948 ITF
Borna DEVALD (CRO), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #957 ITF
Drazen PETROVIC (BiH), 17th SB 2012, #22 ETA U16

GIRLS
Zoe KRUGER (RSA), 17th SB 2012 semif., #683 WTA
Helene PELLICANO (MLT), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #905 WTA
Himari SATO (JPN), 17th SB 2012 winner, #1075 WTA
Francesca CURMI (MLT), 17th SB 2012, #68 ITF
Maria TIMOFEEVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #73 ITF
Weronika BASZAK (POL), 17th SB 2012, #103 ITF
Avelina SAYFETDINOVA (RUS), 17th SB 2012, #131 ITF
Kristyna LAVICKOVA (CZE), 17th SB 2012, #151 ITF
Živa FALKNER (SLO), 17th SB 2012, #162 ITF
Pia LOVRIC (SLO), 17th SB 2012 semif., #185 ITF
Charlotte OWENSBY (USA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #190 ITF
Matilde PAOLETTI (ITA), 17th SB 2012 quarterf., #264 ITF
Luisa MEYER AUF DER HEIDE (GER), 17th SB 2012 runner up, #400 ITF

IN 2013 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 5 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 63 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2013 – 18th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Holger Vitus Nodskov RUNE (DEN), 18th SB 2013, #57 ITF
Carlos ALCARAZ GARFIA (ESP), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #98 ITF
Luca NARDI (ITA), 18th SB 2013, #142 ITF
Hamad MEDJEDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013 semif., #345 ITF
Jerome KYM (SUI), 18th SB 2013, #434 ITF
Daniel RINCON (ESP), 18th SB 2013 semif., #776 ITF
Piotr KUSIEWICZ (POL), 18th SB 2013, #1132 ITF
Adi DAGAN (ISR), 18th SB 2013, #1172 ITF
Alejandro TURRIZIANI ALVAREZ (ESP), 18th SB 2013 winner, #1237 ITF
Danilo RAICEVIC (MNE), 18th SB 2013, #1590 ITF
Stefan POPOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #2256 ITF
Filip MANDOVIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #2347 ITF
Fran MITROVIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #2528 ITF
Gal EMERSIC POTOCNIK (SVN), 18th SB 2013, #240 ETA U16
Vojtech VEIGERT (CZE), 18th SB 2013, #360 ETA U16
Bartol BORSE (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #371 ETA U16
Lovre ERCEG (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #440 ETA U16

GIRLS
Selin Lidya SEPKEN (TUR), 18th SB 2013 semif., #239 ITF
Noa KRZNARIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013 winner, #259 ITF
Antonia RUZIC (CRO), 18th SB 2013, #485 ITF
Kyle BILCHEV (UK), 18th SB 2013 runner up, #770 ITF
Andjela LOPICIC (SRB), 18th SB 2013, #1055 ITF
Kornelia HUNCAK (CRO), 18th SB 2013 semif., #384 ETA U16

IN 2014 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 2 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 65 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2014 – 19th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Mili POLJICAK (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #1 ETA U14
Kalin IVANOVSKI (MKD), 19th SB 2014, #5 ETA U14
Bor ARTNAK (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #18 ETA U14
Luka MIKRUT (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #21 ETA U14
Raffaele MARIANI (SUI), 19th SB 2014, #40 ETA U14
Vilius GAUBAS (LIT), 19th SB 2014, #44 ETA U14
Pedro RODENAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #46 ETA U14
Svetlin KEREMEDCHIEV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #47 ETA U14
Lun OBRUL (SVN), 19th SB 2014, #53 ETA U14
Carlos GUERRERO ALVAREZ (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #54 ETA U14
Nikola ZEKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #56 ETA U14
Matija SAMARDZIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #58 ETA U14
Dragomir DRAGANOV (BLG), 19th SB 2014, #63 ETA U14
Noa VUKADIN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #67 ETA U14
William JANSEN (GBR), 19th SB 2014, #79 ETA U14
Ivan SODAN (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #92 ETA U14
Patrick BRADY (THI), 19th SB 2014 winner, #96 ETA U14
Enrico BALDISSERRI (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #102 ETA U14
Dan Vasile DUTA (ROU), 19th SB 2014, #137 ETA U14
Krsta PETROVIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014, #171 ETA 14
Danil SOBOLIEV (UKR), 19th SB 2014 semif., #395 ETA U14
Ante CIKOJEVIC (GER), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #478 ETA U14

GIRLS
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014 semif., #1 ETA U14
Aliona FALEI (BLR), 19th SB 2014 runner up, #6 ETA U14
Patricie KUBIKOVA (CZE), 19th SB 2014, #32 ETA U14
Lucija CIRIC BAGARIC (CRO), 19th SB 2014, #37 ETA U14
Denislava GLUSHKOVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #41 ETA U14
Tea LUKIC (SRB), 19th SB 2014 winner, #49 ETA U14
Patricija PAUKSTYTE (LTU), 19th SB 2014, #50 ETA U14
Divna RATKOVIC (MNE), 19th SB 2014, #82 ETA U14
Joelle STEUR (GER), 19th SB 2014, #95 ETA U14
Carolina GOMEZ ALONSO (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #95 ETA U14
Suana TUCAKOVIC (BIH), 19th SB 2014 semif., #118 ETA U14
Stela PEEVA (BGR), 19th SB 2014, #129 ETA U14
Petja DRAME (SLO), 19th SB 2014, #137 ETA U14
Irene ARTIGAS (ESP), 19th SB 2014, #139 ETA U14
Emma RIZZETTO (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #153 ETA U14
Emma VALLETTA (ITA), 19th SB 2014 semif., #160 ETA U14
Anna KANTOR (HUN), 19th SB 2014, #176 ETA U14
Neriya YONA (ISR), 19th SB 2014, #198 ETA U14
Veronica SIRCI (ITA), 19th SB 2014, #231 ETA U14
Kyoka KUBO (JPN), 19th SB 2014, #236 ETA U14
Sarah MUELLER (GER), 19th SB 2014, #491 ETA U14

IN 2015 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 9 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 73 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2015 – 20th Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Branko DJURIC (MNE), 20th SB 2015 winner, #14 ETA U14
Dino PRIZMIC (CRO), 20th SB 2015 quarterf., #26 ETA U14
Marc MAJDANDZIC (GER), 20th SB 2015 semif., #49 ETA U14
Mikalai BANKOU (BLR), 20th SB 2015, #93 ETA U14
Matej DODIG (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #196 ETA U14
Giacomo NOSEI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #248 ETA U14
Dimitar PENCHEV (BGR), 20th SB 2015, #248 ETA U14
Andrea MEDURI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #324 ETA U14
Federico BONDIOLI (ITA), 20th SB 2015, #349 ETA U14
Jose Aless HERNANDEZ (ESP), 20th SB 2015 semif., #767 ETA U14
Iker SEVILLA (ESP), 20th SB 2015 runner up , #872 ETA U14

GIRLS
Linda FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE), 20th SB 2015 semif., #1 ETA U14
Alexandra EALA (PHI), 20th SB 2015 , #24 ETA U14 – Les Petits As 2018 winner
Mara GAE (ROU), 20th SB 2015 semif. ,#47 ETA U14
Malwina ROWINSKA (POL), 20th SB 2015, #60 ETA U14
Klio Maria IOANNOU (CYP), 20th SB 2015, #64 ETA U14
Lola RADIVOJEVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015, #68 ETA U14
Vanesa DANKO (HUN), 20th SB 2015, #88 ETA U14
Alena KASATKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015 winner, #104 ETA U14
Leticia TAROCCO (CRO), 20th SB 2015 winner, #115 ETA U14
Petra MARCINKO (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #119 ETA U14
Jaquelyn OGUNWALE (UK), 20th SB 2015 winner, #128 ETA U14
Anastasia GRECHKINA (RUS), 20th SB 2015, #148 ETA U14
Anja PETKOVIC (SRB), 20th SB 2015 runner up, #157 ETA U14
Tena RAJKI (CRO), 20th SB 2015, #191 ETA U14

IN 2016 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD 6 NEW COUNTRIES AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 79 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2016 – 21st Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Kaylan BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 winner – Auray 2018 winner
Luis Garcia PAEZ (ESP), 21st SB 2016 runner up
Petr BRUNCLIK (CZE), 21st SB 2016 semif.
Meecah BIGUN (USA), 21st SB 2016 semif.

GIRLS
Ela Nala MILIČ (SVN), 21st SB 2016 winner
Camilia SAMEL DRUZ (FRA), 21st SB 2016 runner up
Yufei REN (CHN), 21st SB 2016 semif.
Mia RISTIĆ (SRB), 21st SB 2016 semif.

IN 2017 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 85 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2017 – 22nd Smrikva Bowl

GIRLS
Rositsa DENCHEVA (BGR), 22nd SB 2017 winner
Shanice ROIGNOT (FRA), 22nd SB 2017 runner up
Chu LI-YA (TWN), 22nd SB 2017 semif.
Mai GOTO (JPN), 22nd SB 2017 semif.

IN 2018 SMRIKVA BOWL HAD AGAIN SIX CONTINENTS REPRESENTED AND REACHED THE TOTAL OF 87 COUNTRIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE TOURNAMENT SINCE ITS FOUNDATION…

2018 – 23rd Smrikva Bowl

BOYS
Vito DARDERI (ARG), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Niels McDONALD (GER), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Žiga ŠEŠKO (SLO), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Riki IMAI (JPN), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

GIRLS
Alisa OKTIABREVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 winner
Iva LAKIĆ (MNE), 23rd SB 2018 runner up
Daria KORESHKOVA (RUS), 23rd SB 2018 semif.
Zlatina ANGELOVA (BUL), 23rd SB 2018 semif.

13/10/18

We collected olives and made olive oil that will end up in bottles for the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 Ambassadors - Istrian olive oil - one of the best in the World and Smrikva "seeds of the Legends" are making it more and more special year after year...

It was another very long day in Smrikve… the second olives collection day for the 24th Smrikva Bowl 2019 edition-generation…

… with over 20 friends we had another beautiful olive oil collection day…

It is the story of the 2019 Smrikva Bowl olive oil production :)…

In Smrikve is considered 2019 production because the next year every new Smrikva Bowl Ambassador will receive as per tradition a memory bottle of it during the Ambassador’s nomination ceremony.

Collecting olives is always wonderful family and friends time :)… so lucky to collect olives with this kind of weather…

… and the day was again too short to collect all… we had a great team…

Our olive trees hold names of over 1440 players coming from 87 countries and all the continents…

In Smrikve we produce Istrian olive oil that has over 2000 years old tradition in olive oil making and was considered among the best one in the Roman Empire and today is still considered among the best one in the World.

During the Smrikva Bowl we use to give to every Smrikva Bowl Ambasador a bottle of oil as a memory to their Smrikva Bowl.

We are already able to produce special and limited collections of the Smrikva Bowl olive oil from the Smrikva Bowl centuries old olive trees planted by some of the future tennis Champions…

The long road full of sweat and tears… and in end smile :)

… so far 5 players reached TOP 20 ATP/WTA… 18 players reached TOP 100 ATP/WTA… 43 players are among TOP 200 ATP/WTA… we are close to 90 players among TOP 1000 ATP/WTA… 22 children holds a total of 29 junior Grand Slam titles and almost 130 players study in the US thanks to their tennis skills.

The tradition of the olive oil production started to develop in Istria during the time of the Emperor Augustus. Thanks to the olive oil Pula was for few centuries one of the richest towns in the Roman Empire and this is one of the main reasons why Pula got its magnificent Arena.

It is important to say that at the time olive oil was not used only as the salad dressing as we use it today but it was used also for lighting thus it was important as todays are important the sources of energy we use. It was the gold of its period. This explain the status and importance Pula had during the Roman Empire time.

Romans had deep knowledge of olive oil making and we do know that they had five different olive oils quality ranking:

1. Oleum ex albis ulivis: first quality olive oil made by green and white olives
(THIS IS WHAT WE DO FROM THE SMRIKVA BOWL OLIVES)
2. Viride: olive oil made by the olives that started to become black
3. Maturum: olive oil made by mature olives
4. Caducum: olive oil made by olives collected from the ground
5. Cibarium: olive oil made by rotten olives

In 2005, for the 10th Smrikva Bowl anniversary, we started the tradition of planting an old Olive tree. The Olive tree selected was older than the oldest man living on the earth today.

On Brioni island there is an olive tree from the beginning of the 4th century that is one of the oldest olive trees in Europe… and many Smrikva Bowl kids visit it every year…

Marcus Valerius Martialis, native from Cordoba, who lived in the 1st century AD, during the Roman Empire times, celebrated Istrian olive oil with the following verses: “Uncto Corduba Laetior Venafro Histra Nec Minus Absolute Testa”. The translation in English would be: “Cordoba, you being more fertile than the olive oil region of Venafro and so perfect as the oil (amphora) from Istria”.

To learn more about ISTRIAN OLIVE OIL and the Region where Smrikva Bowl is played please visit:

…CULTURAL E-BOOK “Istria from Smrikve” aims to provide Smrikva Bowl players and their families with useful information about the places that should be visited in the Istria region. Here you will find information about: architecture, history, people, music, museums, major cultural events, cuisine, top restaurants and the best olive oil and wine producers.

Please visit www.smrikve.com to learn more about Smrikve, Istria from Smrikve, Smrikva Bowl, one of the most important under 10 tennis tournaments in the World, and Villa Smrikve and SMRIKVE LOUNGE, for your accommodation with swimming pool in Stinjan (Pula – Pola) if you decide to spent your holiday in Istria, Croatia.