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gjr


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Greetings,

Great site you have here. Wish I had found you a while ago but I never really looked. First saw the site when I had a look at Stevens' top 25 list of British men from a link in his sig at MTF. Great page it is too.

Been living in Melbourne for 8 years now and get to the AO every year for the last 3. Seen Andy play twice live and sad that the 2nd time was against Tsonga :(

Not really into Womens tennis that much but I started to look at your threads in the womens section. Appears we have a couple of could do quite well.

Really hoping though we get another break through in the mens game. I see there are a couple who may make it in the next few years but you never know these days.

I saw Dan Evans play in the AO juniors this year so I will be following his progress.

gjr

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Hi there, welcome to the site

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Cheers.

Love your avatar. Reminds me a lot of myself except I have a habit of missing out words in sentences like 'a', 'the' and 'and'

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Hi gjr and welcome!
can you tell me how does the Aussie junior setup look like? do they have any good Juniors coming on?
Thanks

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Welcome to the site gjr, nice to know that those signature links sometimes work! I should probably add a link back to the home page to make it easier for people to find the whole site, if they're not clever enough to strip the URL back to the domain name like you were.

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barcelona clay wrote:

Hi gjr and welcome!
can you tell me how does the Aussie junior setup look like? do they have any good Juniors coming on?
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Sadly I can't. I know nothing about Aussie juniors or the setup. I don't follow Aussie tennis at all. The only Aussie junior I know is the one we all know, Tomic who won the AO junior title. I had a ticket for his match but didn't goto the womens final because I knew Ana would get beaten. Even if I had gone unless a Brit was in the final I would probably have left before it started.

 



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steven wrote:

Welcome to the site gjr, nice to know that those signature links sometimes work! I should probably add a link back to the home page to make it easier for people to find the whole site, if they're not clever enough to strip the URL back to the domain name like you were.



 Ah, perhaps you are misunderstanding me for a clever person :)

Not sure how I got to the main site has it goes. I've been lurking for a while since about week 12 on your chart :)



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gjr wrote:

Cheers.

Love your avatar. Reminds me a lot of myself except I have a habit of missing out words in sentences like 'a', 'the' and 'and'

:)


my spelling is fine, its just the sneaky moderators go and alter my posts to make me look bad biggrin.gif


 



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Welcome to the forum, Graham. smile.gif I'm a big fan of Evans, too.

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barcelona clay wrote:

Hi gjr and welcome!
can you tell me how does the Aussie junior setup look like? do they have any good Juniors coming on?
Thanks



I'm not gjr, but I hope I'm of help.

Australia's good days can soon be back, I believe, as they have a few players who have real class.

In no particular order...


Bernard Tomic - nothing needs to be said about him, I guess. 16 years of age and he'll become the Junior world number 1 in a few week's time. Already has a win against a top 150 player!

Andrew Thomas - 1990 born and ranked 805 with a round each at two Challengers. Was the world's best when he was 14 but since then he fell a lot, before making a comeback last year.

Brydan Klein - Technically not a Junior but he turned 18 on the last day of 2007. Ranked 431 already with three Futures titles.

Jason Murray Kubler - 1993 born and he's sort of a dark horse given that he hasn't done much, but I think he can be a great player. Last year he played a few tournaments in Europe and won a title or two, I think. He double bagelled George Morgan, who's an exceptional player himself. I want to see this guy play a few Junior tournaments this year but strangely there's no sign of him still - could be injured.


I just assumed that you were referring to boys only. Can post names of girls, too, if you want.



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Count Zero wrote:
my spelling is fine, its just the sneaky moderators go and alter my posts to make me look bad biggrin  

We can't help it. cry Sheddie threatens us to do it!



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