Boys & Girls: British Junior National Championships 18s - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: Boys & Girls: British Junior National Championships 18s - 2008.

watson99 · Improver

seeding does include senior ranking.
the order goes WTA ranking, ITF ranking then british ranking which is why joc and steph were ahead of heather, jenny ren and hannah james. If it had solely been done on ITF rankings, its would have been
1-heather
2-hannah
3-tara
4-steph
with jocelyn not getting seaded at all.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yeah, but if it had been done on WTA ranking, Jennifer Ren would be seeded ahead of Heather, isn't it?

-- Edited by Salmon at 10:33, 2008-08-14

scallywag · Social player

Maybe they followed WTA then ITF ranking etc, but don't count anybody outside 1000? LOL
Jennifer put up a good fight though, but didn't manage to take up her match point when 6-5 up in third.

richo · Junior player

cox beat angus
willis beat knightsy 4 and 2

Salmon · Tennis legend

I thought they would play five setters in the semis and final?

Thanks for the scores, anyway.

scallywag · Social player

Tara beat Heather 6-7(5) 6-2 7-5
Jade beat Jocelyn 6-1 6-3

Great effort from Heather! and Jade is on fire! On her route to final, she lost 4 games or less each match.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Very impressed by Windley's results here.

Cox won by 3 and 1.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Marcus and Dan haven't played each other for ages, which is slightly strange given how many times they have played in the same tournament.

They have met twice in international tournaments - both in the autumn of 2006. Cox won the first meeting by 6-3 4-6 6-4 and the second one by 6-4 6-3, although Willis picked up some kind of an injury in the second one (probably a stomach muscle pulled, if I remember correctly).

Cox is probably the favourite here, although Marcus can gain more (well, Cox can gain nothing) if he wins.

Hopefully they'll at least try to get Cox into New Haven qualies, but I doubt it.

Tara should beat Windley. I'd prefer it if Windley won it, even though I like Tara more.

-- Edited by Salmon at 15:22, 2008-08-14

bobobobo · Improver

Pauffley and Willis won the doubles 6-4 6-4

Salmon · Tennis legend

Nice. That's two years in a row!

Speaking of New Haven qualies, the cuts in the past have been -

2007: 810
2006: 827
2005: Unr

Tournament didn't exist before that.

So Cox will probably get in, especially as the main draw is far weaker than normal years because of the Olympics. But I'm not sure if he'll have enough time even if he leaves soon after the final, but a qualies wild card is a possibility, especially if the cut drops below 1000.

wolf · Tennis legend

Heather was 5-3 up in that final set as well!

Peter too · Tennis legend

I think Heather has beaten Tara before and don't they both train at Bollettieri's?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Heather beat Tara last year in the Nats.

Yes, they both train at IMG/Bollettieri. They had the same coach at one point of time (a Peruvian named Perci Melzi) but I don't know about now.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

That must have been a tough match for the pair of them. i do hope that Tara takes the title to make up for the farce of her loosing though ranking points.