Boys: European Summer Cups 2007.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Boys: European Summer Cups 2007.

Salmon · Tennis legend

14 and under team - George Morgan, Andrew Bettles, Connon Glennon, Michael Watkins (reserve).

Nominations.

-- Edited by Arka at 18:43, 2007-06-23

Salmon · Tennis legend

We did well to qualify but got a bad draw in the form of top seeds Slovak Republic and lost. We finished sixth, which means that we sneak into the World Junior Tennis tournament that's played in August.

You can see the results here - http://www.tenniseurope.org/JuniorTennis/Jun_Te_-European-Summer-Cups_14-Under-Boys.aspx

Salmon · Tennis legend

16 and under team - James Chaudry, Greg Goodall, Ahmed El Menshawy.

Arvind Parmar is the team captain!!

18 and under team - Cox, Evans, Pauffley, Smethurst (reserve).

I am not too happy with Cox and Evans playing this as they will have to miss a Challenger and Futures. Now that they are on course for a direct entry into the USO and a seeding at next year's Australian Open, they could have been made to play men's tournaments every week till December except for the three weeks of the G1 in Canada, the USO and Osaka Mayor's.

But I guess that it's a great honour to represent your country.

Robxon · Lower Club Player

Knowing nothing about this age group, the follwing questions may be a little bit naive and is not meant to be over critical...

Given that all the new coaching regime believe that the current crop of 14 year olds represent the best chance of future champions is the result not a little disappointing?

Were there players missing who may have made the side?

Salmon · Tennis legend

No, no one was missing due to injury. Although Watkins was the reserve even though he is our number two.

At this moment none of our 14 and under players can be considered as one of the best players in their age group.

But this may not mean much as loads of players don't do too well before they are 15 and 16. Eysseric, the best player in the 18 and under circuit at the moment, was extremely ordinary when he was 14 - he wasn't even the best in France. Federer himself was nothing special when he was 13 or 14 but started winning big tournaments soon after.

Who knows... maybe someone like Morgan or Watkins or Golding will mature a lot over the next two years and will show signs of Tour players in the making.

-- Edited by Arka at 19:29, 2007-07-27

Salmon · Tennis legend

18 and under qualies draw: http://www.tenniseurope.org/PDF/junior/Summer%20Cups/2007/Results/B18/ZoneD/Draw.pdf

Top seed. Woohoo!

domara · Junior player

Hi Arka and all. I think you may be forgetting that there is also an under 12 cup this year for the first time. The GB team is Jonny O'mara, Luke Bambridge and Chris Pearce. Hot news just off the press (re phone call from Jonny) is that they have just qualified for the finals in sardinia, Italy with a win over Bulgaria. In fact the boys did very well with wins over sweden and Turkey as well as Bulgaria without losing a set. They all had to deal with the dreaded "Delhi belly" as well as the intense heat there at the moment
all the best

www.freewebs.com/jonnyomaraonline

RobC · All-time great

Well done our under 12s!!

Welcome to the board, Dave :wavey:

Robxon · Lower Club Player

domara wrote:

Hi Arka and all. I think you may be forgetting that there is also an under 12 cup this year for the first time. The GB team is Jonny O'mara, Luke Bambridge and Chris Pearce. Hot news just off the press (re phone call from Jonny) is that they have just qualified for the finals in sardinia, Italy with a win over Bulgaria. In fact the boys did very well with wins over sweden and Turkey as well as Bulgaria without losing a set. They all had to deal with the dreaded "Delhi belly" as well as the intense heat there at the moment
all the best
www.freewebs.com/jonnyomaraonline

I know I am a pedant but..(don't you just hate contributions that start like that?)...I decided to look up the details of their success on the appropriate Tennis Europe page.

http://www.tenniseurope.org/pdf/junior/NationsChallenge/2007/Results/Boys/ZoneC/Draw.pdf

I noticed that despite beating all their opponents 3-0 including Sweden, they have been placed behind Sweden in the Overall Table. confused

This may or may not matter. But knowing British luck, this may be taken at face value and affect the seedings for the finals next week. ashamed

domara · Junior player

Don't you just hate contributions that contain words you have to look up? At least I now know what "pedant" means wink

The table you mention Robxon is just a simple representation of the two qualifiers from the group stage. I don't know for sure whether there will be seeds in Italy but I suspect not and they will go with a four team group draw with winner and runner-up opposing group play off and subsequent final-but thats a guess. The home team have a very strong team as well as home advantage, France and ourselves also look pretty good.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Welcome to the forum, Dr. O'Mara!

So happy for the boys. Good luck to them in Italy.

Where is Jonny now? Is he doing the 14s tournament in Bournemouth?

domara · Junior player

Thanks for the welcome!
Not doing Bournemouth as he has had a tough schedule recently and I had a feeling they would qualify for the finals in sardinia so a week at home seemed a better plan. He's now got sardinia followed by the Nationals then probably one more trip before starting at the new tennis academy at merchiston school in edinburgh

Salmon · Tennis legend

Doesn't matter. He'll have plenty of time to improve his ranking next year.

The draw has been updated and the 18s team will face either Spain or Israel for a place in the main draw.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Spain won.

Evans will be playing Rumenov, who's ATP top 1000 but doesn't play much Juniors. Cox will face Sergio Gutierrez, who has 4 or 5 ATP points but doesn't play Juniors at all.

Both the matches are tough but both are highly winnable. I don't know who we'll play in doubles, though. Cox/Evans, Evans/Pauffley and Pauffley/Cox have done well while playing together in the past.