Junior Australian Open 2008

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Junior Australian Open 2008

Goldenslam · Intermediate Club Player

becoming a daddy & tearing ligaments in my ankle....the usual really!!!! biggrin

but getting myself together & preparing some players for some upcoming events.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Goldenslam wrote:

becoming a daddy & tearing ligaments in my ankle....the usual really!!!! but getting myself together & preparing some players for some upcoming events.

Wow, Congratulations! (on tearing the ligaments of course, shame about becoming a daddy

)

Great to have you back though.

XCW4EVA · County player

Congrats Man

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Massive congratulations

Getting much sleep?

Goldenslam · Intermediate Club Player

Thanks guys!! Getting a bit but not enough although my wife is fair and sees to the baby at night, but can't help but wake up!! Such is life, but now I know why top sports men fade once they become daddys' it tough, but wouldn't change it for the world.........but might do for a wimbledon title!! biggrin

Salmon · Tennis legend

Lists are up on ITF. Cox and Evans are going - I am not impressed...

Jack · Intermediate Club Player

Why are you not impressed Arka?

wolf · Tennis legend

Because he thinks they are wasting their time playing junior events, especially one so far away. Personally I disagree.

wolf · Tennis legend

Boys

MD: Daniel Evans, Marcus Willis, Daniel Cox, Niall Angus, Neil Pauffley
QD: Thomas Knights
Alt: Michael Davis, Matthew Short, Faris Akhazzan

Girls

MD: Jade Curtis
That is it!

Sheddie · administrator

I'm pleased they're going for the Aussie Open juniors, if I was one of those guys, I'd play no more junior tourneys apart from the slams and just concentrate on racking up pts in the futures. Cox and Evo are both capable of getting near top 500 next year, both would surely be a lot, lot higher if they'd played more senior events this year.

Like them playing the slams though cause they've got so much cuodos and the AO especially generally has a much weaker field than the other 3 so all 5 have a genuine chance of going deep

Hopefully Jade can finally make her talent count at a major junior event, cant believe she's never been past rd3 of one so far....at least she's producing her best in the futures which is the right way round !

Salmon · Tennis legend

The idea of playing just Junior Slams is fine, but they will "waste" the full of January for this. Unless they plan on doing qualies in New Caledonia, that is, which is seriously doubt.

Why else are Elias and Eysseric missing this even though they don't have a Slam title?

Cox and Evans are perfectly capable of beating everyone in 10K fields. What do they have to gain by playing Junior events? And for some reason unknown, Cox was ten times better in Futures than in Juniors in 2007...

Salmon · Tennis legend

It's funny that Tara isn't doing qualies here. Hopefully she'll play the weak tourneys in South America and get to the top 40 by end January.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Yeah suprised that Tara isn't playing. She'll be around 75 by the time of the Aus open. Maybe shes going for the big events in south america as they have really weak draws.