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26/07/07

Top Smrikva Bowl junior players on ITF and European rankings

2002 – 7th Smrikva Bowl
Javier Marti, 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002 winner, from Spain, is ranked #12 in Europe in under 16 cathegory.
Giaccomo Miccini, 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002 runner up, from Italy, is ranked #91 on ITF ranking list. Giacomo Miccini trains at Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

Martina Caregaro, 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002 winner, from Italy, is ranked #83 in Europe in under 16 cathegory.
Ajla Tomljanovic, 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002 runner up, from Croatia, is ranked #304 on ITF ranking list and is ranked #5 in under 18 cathegory in Croatia.
Ema Burgic, ranked 3rd on 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, is ranked #4 in Europe in under 16 cathegory.

2003 – 8th Smrikva Bowl
Dominic Thiem, 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003 winner, from Austria, is ranked #112 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.
George Morgan, 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003 runner up, from Great Britain, is ranked #12 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.
Ciprian Porumb, ranked 3rd on 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003, from Romenia, is ranked #4 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.

Jennifer Ren, 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003 winner, from Great Britain, is ranked #8 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.
Silvia Njiric, 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003 runner up, from Croatia, is ranked #6 in Europe in under 14 cathegory and is ranked #4 in under 16 cathegory in Croatia.

2004 – 9th Smrikva Bowl
Ivan Levar, 9th Smrikva Bowl 2004 winner, from Croatia, is ranked #83 in Europe in under 14 cathegory and is ranked #2 in under 14 cathegory in Croatia.
Miki Jankovic, 9th Smrikva Bowl 2004 runner up, from Serbia, is ranked #57 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.

Saska Gavrilovska, 9th Smrikva Bowl 2004 winner, from Serbia, plays most of the tournaments in the USA.
Ecaterina Opriou, 9th Smrikva Bowl 2004 runner up, from Romenia, is ranked #431 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.

2005 – 10th Smrikva Bowl
Matteo Donati, 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 winner, from Italy, is ranked #217 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.
Gyore Laszlo, 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 runner up, from Serbia, is ranked #407 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.

Saska Gavrilovska, 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 winner, from Serbia, plays most of the tournaments in the USA.
Olga Yanchuk, 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 runner up, from Ukraine, is ranked #135 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.

2006 – 11th Smrikva Bowl
Gianluigi Quinzi, 11th Smrikva Bowl 2006 winner, from Italy, is ranked #132 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.
Filip Kraljevic, 11th Smrikva Bowl 2006 runner up, from Croatia, is ranked #9 in Croatia in under 12 cathegory.

Eleanor Dean, 11th Smrikva Bowl 2006 winner, from Great Britain, is not ranked in Europe in under 14 cathegory.
Dina Paocic, 11th Smrikva Bowl 2006 runner up, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, is ranked #406 in Europe in under 14 cathegory.

2007 – 12th Smrikva Bowl
Sacha Merzetti, 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 winner, from Italy, is too young for under 14 european ranking.
Bogdan Borza, 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 runner up, from Romania, is too young for under 14 european ranking.
Gonzalo Morell, ranked 3rd on 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007, from Spain, is too young for under 14 european ranking.
Sergiu Bucur, ranked 4th on 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007, from Romania, is too young for under 14 european ranking.

Virginia Pena, 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 winner, from Spain, is too young for under 14 european ranking.
Ana Konjuh, 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 runner up, from Croatia, is too young for under 14 european ranking, is ranked #25 in Croatia in under 12 cathegory.
Nina Potocnik, ranked 3rd on 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007, from Slovenia, is too young for under 14 european ranking.
Katie Dayson, ranked 4th on 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007, from UK, is too young for under 14 european ranking.

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24/07/07

Petra Martic, Indire Akiki and Tereza Mrdeza on WTA lists

Petra Martic, Indire Akiki and Tereza Mrdeza joint other two Smrikva Bowl winners that are already on WTA lists: Ivana Lisjak, 2nd Smrikva Bowl 1997 winner, ranked 180 on WTA list (her best ranking was #95) and Astrid Besser, 4th Smrikva Bowl 1999 winner, ranked 460 on WTA list.

Petra Martic, 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 winner, is currently ranked 546 on WTA list.
Indire Akiki , 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 runner up, is currently ranked 595 on WTA list.
Tereza Mrdeza, 5th Smrikva Bowl 2000 winner, is currently ranked 760 on WTA list.

Congratulations Petra, Indire and Tereza!

23/07/07

18th Croatia Open and 5th Oatt Kids Cup in UMAG

Umag is located in Istria (Croatia) – 80 km from the Pula city and the Smrikve Tennis Club. During this week some of the best ATP players will meet in Umag on 18th Croatia Open. Novak Djovkovic (ranked #3 on ATP list), Nykolay Davydenko (ranked #4 on ATP list), Ivan Ljubicic, Carlos Moya, Guillermo Canas will play this week in Umag. It will be another wounderful week of tennis in Umag.

Two weeks ago the international finals of the 5th Oatt Kids Cup was played in Umag in Istria, a week after 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007. Various Smrikva Bowl players reached very good results on the 5th Oatt Kids Cup.

Olga Fridman from Ukraina played 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 and she played the finals of the under 9 age group in Umag. Dylan Beonarczyk from Canada reached quarterfinals of the 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 and he won the under 9 age group in Umag.

Ndindi Ndunda from the USA played 6th “Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl 2007 and she played the finals of the under 10 age group in Umag. Eduardo Nava from the USA also played 6th “Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl 2007 and he played the finals of the under 10 age group in Umag.

Dona Vekic from Croatia played three times Smrikva Bowl and she was the winner of the under 11 age group in Umag. Borna Coric from Croatia played once Smrikva Bowl, when he was 9 years old, and he was the winner of the under 11 age group in Umag.

Olga Yanchuk from Ukraina played the finals of the 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 and she played the finals of the under 12 age group in Umag.

Nikolina Grbac from Croatia also played the Smrikva Bowl and she played the finals of the under 16 age group in Umag.

Maybe one day some of the Smrikva Bowl players will have the opportunity to play the ATP Tournament in Umag :). Marin Draganja played the finals of this year Avenire in Milan, one of the most important under 16 tournaments in the World. Another couple of years and who knows… Good luck!

14/07/07

Indire Akiki played the finals of USD 10000 ITF Futures Tournament

Indire Akiki, 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 finalist, played the finals of the USD 10000 ITF Futures Tournament in Prokuplje in Serbia against Mailen Auroux from Argentina ranked 695 on WTA list. Indire Akiki lost 4:6, 6:1, 6:3

05/07/07

12 Smrikva Bowl 2007 today on SmartTV

Today at 6:45 pm on www.smarttv.com.hr 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 tv reportage will be broadcasted in Moja Istra show.

26/06/07

Ciprian Porumb jr. and Andras Szekely won the Romanian National Championships at their age categories

Former Smrikva Bowl players Ciprian Porumb jr. and Andras Szekely won the Romanian National Championships at their age categories, U14 and U12. Ciprian also attended the U16 National Championships where he ended up on the third place in the final four tournament! Internationally, he is currently on the 5th place in the U14 ETA ranking.

24/06/07

12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 winners are Sacha Merzetti from Italy and Virginia Pena from Spain

12th Smrikva Bowl – tennis tournament for boys and girls under 10 – gathered around 90 boys and girls from 16 countries and 4 continents. It was another successful annual.

The proof of the Smrikva Bowl importance is given by the names of the winners:
Vilim Visak (Cro) – Natali Zuliani (Cro) 1996
Zeljko Peric (Cro)- Ivana Lisjak (Cro) 1997
Filip Kovacic (Cro) – Mateja Horvat (Cro) 1998
Borko Mudronja (Cro)- Astrid Besser (I) 1999
Adelchi Virgili (I) – Tereza Mrdeza (Cro)2000
Marin Draganja (Cro) – Petra Martic (Cro) 2001
Javier Marti (ESP) – Martina Caregaro (I)2002
Dominic Thiem (A) – Jennifer Ren (UK) 2003
Ivan Levar (Cro)- S. Gavrilovska (SRB)2004
Matteo Donati (I)- S. Gavrilovska (SRB)2005
Gianluigi Quinzi (I)- Eleanor Dean (UK)2006
Sacha Merzetti (I)- Virgina Pena (ESP)2007

Sacha Merzetti won boys finals and Virginia Pena the girls finals. The winners won mountain bikes and runner up the Head rackets.

On 24th of June 2007, the selected Smrikva Bowl players: Sacha Merzetti (I), Bogdan Borza (Rom), Virginia Pena (Esp), Ana Konjuh (Cro) – played the 6th “Little Mo” / Smrikva Bowl in Smrikve Tennis Club in Pula, Croatia. Edoardo Nava, Tommy Paul, Ndindi Ndunda and Domonique Garley have been selected by MCB foundation to represent the United States.

Smrikva Bowl team won 7:1 the 6th “Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl.

The Smrikve Tennis Club and the Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation have created “Little Mo”/ Smrikva Bowl, the first-ever international competition between the United States and Europe for boys and girls 10 & under. Today Smrikva Bowl gathers top players from all around the World.

12th SMRIKVA BOWL RESULTS

Boys:
Finals:
Sacha Merzetti (I) – Bogdan Borza (Rom) (6:1 6:3);

Semifinals:
Bogdan Borza (Rom) – Sergiu Bucur (Rom) (9:0);
Sacha Merzetti (I) – Gonzalo Morell (Esp) (9:3);

Quarterfinals:
Sacha Merzetti (I) – Lloyd Harris (SAF) (9:2);
Bogdan Borza (Rom) – Miguel Semmler (Esp) (9:4);
Sergiu Bucur (Rom) – Dylan Beonarczyk (Can) (9:8);
Gonzalo Morell (Esp) – Gideon Fairhall (Uk) (5:0 ret).

Girls:
Finals:
Virginia Pena (Esp) – Ana Konjuh (Cro) (6:2 6:1);

Semifinals:
Virginia Pena (Esp) – Nina Potocnik (Slo) (9:1);
Ana Konjuh (Cro) – Katie Dyson (Uk) (9:5);

Quarterfinals:
Virginia Pena (Esp)- Kataryna Baranivska (Ukr) (9:1);
Ana Konjuh (Cro) – Bianka Bekefi (H) (7:5 ret);
Nina Potocnik (Slo) – Chiara Grimm (Ch) (9:1);
Katie Dyson (Uk) – Ivana Jorovic (Srb) (9:2).

6th “Little Mo”/SMRIKVA BOWL RESULTS

Smrikva Bowl vs. Little Mo

Virgina Pena (Esp) – Ndindi Ndunda (USA) (6:0 6:1)
Ana Konjuh (Cro) – Dominique Garley (USA) (6:2 6:0)

Sacha Merzetti (I) – Eduardo Nava (USA) (6:33:6 10:8)
Bogdan Borza (Rom) – Tommy Paul (USA) (6:47:5)

Ana Konjuh (Cro) – Ndindi Ndunda (USA) (6:1 6:1)
Virginia Pena (Esp) – Dominique Garley (USA) (6:36:0)

Bogdan Borza (Rom) – Eduardo Nava (USA) (7:6 1:6 5:10)
Sacha Merzetti (I) – Tommy Paul (USA) (6:46:0)

FINAL RESULT 7 – 1

17/06/07

Marin Draganja in the finals of Avvenire, one of the most important under 16 tournaments in the World

Marin Draganja, 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 winner, arrived in the finals of the 43rd Trophy Avvenire in Milan, Italy. Marin Draganja lost in the finals against Mirza Basic from Bosnia and Herzegovina 7:6, 6:7, 2:6.

13/06/07

Ivana Lisjak in the final of the ITF Challenger Zagreb Ladies Open (USD 75000)

Ivana Lisjak, 2nd Smrikva Bowl 1997 winner, lost in the finals of the Zagreb Ladies Open from Kira Nagy from Hungary 2:6, 7:6, 6:2.

06/06/07

Petra Martic arrived in the quarterfinals of the Junior Roland Garros

Petra Martic, 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 winner, lost in the quarterfinals against Ksenia Milevs.aya from Belarus 3:6, 3:6. In the the 3rd round of the Junior Roland Garros Petra Martic won against Simana Halep from Romania 2:6, 6:4, 6:0. In the 2nd round Petra Martic won against Cindy Chala from France 6:2, 6:1. In the 1st round Petra Martic won against Bojana Jovanovski 6:3, 6:3.

Roland Garros is a 3rd junior Grand Slam tournament for Petra Martic. Petra arrived in the quarterfinals of the US Open and to the 2nd round of the Australian Open.

05/05/07

Tereza Mrdeza arrived in the finals of the USD 10000 ITF Tournament in Bol

Tereza Mrdeza, 5th Smrikva Bowl 2000 winner, arrived in the finals of the USD 10000 ITF Futures tournament in Bol (Croatia). Tereza Mrdeza lost against Johannna Larsson from Sweeden 1:6, 3:6. Johanna Larsson is ranked 364 on WTA list.

17/02/07

The news on Ciprian junior

Hello Mio,

I hope everything’s fine with you.

I am writing this message in order to inform you and through you the visitors of smrikve.com that Ciprian is doing fine again in ETA U14 tournaments.

Last week he reached the semis at Les Petits As in Tarbes, France, probably the strongest U14 tournament in the world, along the Orange Bowl. He played some great tennis and beat his opponents on the main draw in straight sets, but failed to qualify in the final, losing in the semis to spaniard Carlos Boluda, european champion and ETA no.1 player. On the doubles main draw, playing along fellow Romanian Vasile Ghilea, he again made it to the semifinals, losing to Czech pair Rumler, Vrnak who went on to win the tournament.

Earlier this year, preparing this tournament, Ciprian also played the 6th Realsport Open in Mlada Milovice (Czech Republic). At his first games on hard court this year, he qualified in the semifinals of this competition.

The points earned in January allowed Ciprian to close the gap at only 5 points in the race for the 3rd place on the ETA U14 ranking. Currently, Ciprian is no.4, with 400 points, chasing Lukas Vrnak (Czech Republic), 405 points.

All the best to you, the Smrikva Bowl team and the former palyers of this tournament!

Best regards,

Ovidiu

22/01/07

Petra Martic lost in the second round of the Junior Australian Open 2007

Petra Martic, 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 winner, won the first round against Klaudia Boczova from Slovak Republic 6:2, 6:3.

In the second round Petra Martic played against Tamira Paszek from Austria. Tamira Paszek last year won a WTA tournament in Portoroz. Tamira Paszek won 6:2, 6:2

Petra Martic arrived in the quarterfinals of the Junior US Open last year and won recently the ITF tournament in Melbourne.

07/01/07

Harry Busby won Ouatt Kids Cup - age 11 - 2007

Harry Busby played semi finals on 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 and helped the european team to win 4th “Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl

Hi Mio

Hope you and the family are well.

Just to let you know Harry has won this year Ouatt Kids Cup final age 11 2007 in fantastic style against Greece young talented star Ioannis Toumpakaris 6-4 6-3. Getting a Babolat sponsorship.

Since playing Smrikva Bowl Harry has many doors open to him.He has been offered scholarships and now is known around the world tennis circuit, and the Smrikva Bowl made this all possible for him because you give him a opportunity to compete in the worlds best 10 years and under tournament in Croatia.

He is now in training for this years Orange Bowl in Florida where he aim is to do well but get sponsorship to take him eventually on to the ATP tour.

Harry again would like to say thank you for helping him gain valuable experience.

Warmest regards Busby family

03/01/07

The end of the year was really successfull for Ciprian Porumb

The end of the year was a really successfull one for Ciprian Porumb junior, ranked 3rd on 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003, he won the von Rotz Trophy in Wilen, Switzerland in November and reached the semis at TIM Essonne in S-te Genevieve des Bois, France in December, being currently on the 4th place in the ETA U14 ranking.

03/01/07

Ajla Tomljenovic and Ivan Levar in the quarterfinals of the Orange Bowl

Ajla Tomljanovic, 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002 runner up, and Ivan Levar,9th Smrikva Bowl 2004 winner, arrived to the quarterfinals in under 14 and under 12 cathegory of the Orange Bowl in Brandenton (Florida).

07/11/06

Blair Shankle ranked #1 under 12 in the USA

In 2004, Blair Shankle played 3rd “Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl in Pula and won both matches for the US team.

Blair Shankle is the top-ranked girls’ 12s player in the US. Shankle kicked off 2006 by sweeping the singles and doubles titles at the girls’ 12 National Open Championships in Sea Island, Ga., in February.

Shankle, who has been nationally ranked in the girls’ 12s since she was a 9-year-old, made history last year at the “Little Mo” National Championships, where she became the first player ever to win four consecutive titles.

Ranking history:
2006 – 1* (USTA 12s)
2005 – 9* (USTA 12s)
2004 – 40* (USTA 12s)

highest ranking achieved during the year.
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28/10/06
Tereza Mrdeza reached the semifinals of the USD 10.000 ITF Tournament in Dubrovnik

Tereza Mrdeza, 5th Smrikva Bowl 2000 winner, won the 1st round of the ITF USD 10.000 tournament against Paola Sprovieri from Germany (currently ranked 872 on WTA list) 6:3, 7:6.

In the 2nd round Tereza Mrdeza won against Emilie Bacquet from France (currently ranked 451 on WTA list) 6:3, 7:5.

In the 3rd round Tereza Mrdeza won against Anja Prislan from Slovenia (currently ranked 757 on WTA list) 6:0, 7:5.

In the semi finals Tereza Mrdeza lost against Polona Rebersak from Slovenia (currently ranked 550 on WTA list) 3:6, 6:4, 7:6.

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21/10/06
Smrikva Bowl winners on ATP and WTA lists

Vilim Visak, 1st Smrikva Bowl 1996 winner, is currently ranked 868 on ATP list. Vilim was ranked 612 on March 6, 2006.

Ivana Lisjak, 2nd Smrikva Bowl 1997 winner, is currently ranked 142 on WTA list. Ivana was ranked 95 on June 12, 2006.

Mateja Horvat, 3rd Smrikva Bowl 1998 winner, is currently ranked 1073. Mateja was ranked 830 on November 14, 2005.

Astrid Besser, 4th Smrikva Bowl 1999 winner, is currently ranked 647. Astrid was ranked 645 on October 2, 2006.

All the other winners are still potential professional players:
Adelchi Virgili, 5th Smrikva Bowl 2000 winner.
Tereza Mrdeza, 5th Smrikva Bowl 2000 winner.

Marin Draganja, 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 winner.
Petra Martic, 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 winner.

Javier Marti, 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002 winner.
Martina Caregaro, 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002 winner.

Dominic Thiem, 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003 winner.
Jennifer Ren, 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003 winner.

Ivan Levar, 9th Smrikva Bowl 2004 winner.
Saska Gavrilovska, 9th Smrikva Bowl 2004 winner.

Matteo Donati, 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 winner.
Saska Gavrilovska, 10th Smrikva Bowl 2005 winner.

Gianluigi Quinzi, 11th Smrikva Bowl 2006 winner.
Eleonor Dean, 11th Smrikva Bowl 2006 winner.

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.

20/10/06
Petra Martic finished in the 3rd round of the ITF USD 10.000 tournament in Dubrovnik

Petra Martic, 6th Smrikva Bowl 2001 winner, won the 1st round of the ITF USD 10.000 tournament against Polona Rebersak from Slovenia (currently ranked 499 on WTA list) 6:4, 6:2.

In the 2nd round Petra Martic won against Anja Prislan from Slovenia (currently ranked 752 on WTA list) 6:0, 6:2.

In the 3rd round Petra Martic lost against Ana Savic from Croatia (currently ranked 823 on WTA list) 6:2, 6:2.

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Top Smrikva Bowl junior players on ITF and European rankings

Petra Martic, Indire Akiki and Tereza Mrdeza on WTA lists

18th Croatia Open and 5th Oatt Kids Cup in UMAG

Indire Akiki played the finals of USD 10000 ITF Futures Tournament

12 Smrikva Bowl 2007 today on SmartTV

Ciprian Porumb jr. and Andras Szekely won the Romanian National Championships at their age categories

12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 winners are Sacha Merzetti from Italy and Virginia Pena from Spain

Marin Draganja in the finals of Avvenire, one of the most important under 16 tournaments in the World

Ivana Lisjak in the final of the ITF Challenger Zagreb Ladies Open (USD 75000)

Petra Martic arrived in the quarterfinals of the Junior Roland Garros

Tereza Mrdeza arrived in the finals of the USD 10000 ITF Tournament in Bol

The news on Ciprian junior

Petra Martic lost in the second round of the Junior Australian Open 2007

Harry Busby won Ouatt Kids Cup - age 11 - 2007

The end of the year was really successfull for Ciprian Porumb

Ajla Tomljenovic and Ivan Levar in the quarterfinals of the Orange Bowl

Blair Shankle ranked #1 under 12 in the USA

Tereza Mrdeza reached the semifinals of the USD 10.000 ITF Tournament in Dubrovnik

Smrikva Bowl winners on ATP and WTA lists

Petra Martic finished in the 3rd round of the ITF USD 10.000 tournament in Dubrovnik