Wimbledon Juniors 2009 Preview

DavidC · Tennis legend

Wimbledon Juniors 2009 Preview

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

I am surprised to see that Laura has entered, as most champions do not defend their title in Juniors

Most grand slam champions are a lot older though, so are moving on from juniors.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

hmm wonder about Golding and Marselek as well

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

If Laura hadn't have been injured and missed 3/4 months i'm not sure if she would have played again in juniors but her progress has been hampered.

The only junior i know to have defended their junior title was Hingis at RG when she won it for a second time at the age of 13.

wolf · Tennis legend

I'm pretty sure they lady with the long surname I am currently watching being crushed by Safina defended her AO title once and tried to do it for a third time but failed.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

I think she won it in 2007 and Aranxta Rus won that in 2008 i think. Not 100% sure though

serveandvolley · Social player

No 1991 boys will be given WC for any event over the period of Roehampton and Wimbledon, that is the word coming from the NTC. Shame really as I can think of 2 rather good fast court players who could push on to US Open.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Wolf is quite right that Pavlyuchenkova won it in 2006, defended in 2007 and tried but failed in 2008 (Arantxa Rus winning as Mervatron says). The fact she had tried to defend it twice had completely passed me by. Laura risks some flak from certain quarters of the press though if she doesn't win Wimbledon again - but I suppose she will have to get use to that in the future anyway.

DavidC · Tennis legend

serveandvolley wrote:

No 1991 boys will be given WC for any event over the period of Roehampton and Wimbledon, that is the word coming from the NTC. Shame really as I can think of 2 rather good fast court players who could push on to US Open.

Interesting - I didn't expect anyone outside top 100 to be awarded one, but any of the top 3 could still make US Open Juniors. Nevertheless leaving them in the Wimbledon Qualies frees up more WCs to split between the top 1992s and 1993s. Also if any do qualify it should help their chances in the main draw. In terms of which 1992s and 1993s pick up main draw WCs I imagine some will be decided by an internal play-off.