Week 12 - Futures F1 (10k) - Antalya, Turkey

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: Week 12 - Futures F1 (10k) - Antalya, Turkey

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

To be honest, I'd prefer to see players playing in tournaments that are possibly below their level when they first start out just to try and get them some ranking points and money.

It's all very well them playing in 'bigger' tournaments and the experience will help them but they probably would be better served by picking up cheap points and getting their rankings up before they do that.

I don't understand why Cox was sent to Turkey, especially seeing as it's 4 rounds of qualifying (and that makes no sense... why sent a player to play a tournament abroad on a surface they aren't at their best on with 4 Q rounds when there are other tournaments they could play?)

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Arka wrote:

I have absolutely no idea who does their schedules but I guess it's their coaches.

Evans isn't very big, either. Willis and Pauffley are, though. In any case, I refuse to believe that height will hinder anyone in case they are talented enough.

Olivier Rochus... he's only 5ft 5/6 (something like that) and he's won ATP titles, been top 30, so if you have the talent it doesn't matter how tall you are

Salmon · Tennis legend

Grosjean is around there, too.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

True but of the top 50 I bet 45 are at least 6FT.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

johnnylad wrote:

True but of the top 50 I bet 45 are at least 6FT.

Those in the top 50 at the moment who aren't 6ft are:

Ferrer, Davydenko, Nalbandian, Hewitt, Robredo, Santoro, Darcis, Simon, Tipsaervic

And plently of others who are exactly 6ft

johnnylad · Tennis legend

9. A lot more than I thought.

Still think Dan will get bullied around court.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

johnnylad wrote:

9. A lot more than I thought.

Still think Dan will get bullied around court.

(and it will be 10 next week when Lee returns to the top 50)

I've never seen Cox play so I can't really comment on how far up the rankings he'll go but smaller players often don't have a big serve to get them out of trouble and from the list I just posted all of them can get him off the court if they are playing someone in form

It's not impossible for a small man to have a good career but it's also not as easy to do so and you don't have the big weapons that you possibly need

Salmon · Tennis legend

There aren't many players who have suffered because of their heights, I think. I mean... I accept that if Oly Rochus had been six feet, he'd be top 10, but he has had and is having a great career.

The only name that comes to my mind is that of Brian Dabul, who was the Junior world number 1 but is 5 feet 7 and hasn't made the top 100 yet. But even he has made a lot of progress in the last year and I think he'll get there later this year.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

On Sky the other night they were commenting that at 6'3" Andy is the perfect height for a tennis player and that Federer at 6'1" is possibly a little short! He's really suffered from his short stature.

Salmon · Tennis legend

I think that that is not true at all. It's my opinion (and I don't have the knowledge to prove it) but players taller than 6 feet 1 or 2 (especially the ones with bigger frames) tend to become extremely injury prone.

In fact Federer probably has one of most well balanced bodies of all tennis players - not too heavy yet not too lanky, and, not too short to affect his serve yet not too tall to impede his movement.

Salmon · Tennis legend

We probably post more about a certain player's height than any other board in this world.

I don't think that it'll be too far behind Boggo's quest for the top 100, Wimbledon wild cards and Andy's yo-yo form in case you count the number of times we have discussed something.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Malteaser wrote:
The final point and possibly most important is the number of players that we have coming through. I hear mention of players like Evans, Milton, Cox, Rice and Smethurst. I'm not sure whether the number we have is suffucuent? Is it enough compared with other Countries?

Actually I think that it's better than all countries except for the US and France. It'll take remarkable managerial skills to ensure that we don't produce at least two top 100 players from 1989-1992. Just my opinion...