Boys & Girls: Canadian Open Junior Championships - Grade 1 (Week 35)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: Canadian Open Junior Championships - Grade 1 (Week 35)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Heres hoping Oliver can keep the form going and pick up some big points here.

DavidC · Tennis legend

All down to Olly in the singles:

Boys R1 (L64)

(SE) Oliver Golding (GBR) d. (Q) Michael Lippens (USA) 6-4 6-3
(WC) Panev Jha (CAN) d. Ahmed El Menshawy (GBR) 4-6 6-1 6-2

R2

(11) Guilherme Clezar (BRA) v (SE) Oliver Golding (GBR)

Girls R1

Katarena Paliivets (CAN) d. Stephanie Cornish (GBR) 6-3 7-6(5)
Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) d. (Q) Nicola George (GBR) 1-6 6-2 6-3

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Ollie won 2 and 2, brilliant stuff

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

wooo, very good form at the moment. keep it up olly.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

R2: Oliver Golding (SE) beat CLEZAR, Guilherme (BRA) 11 6-2 6-2

R3: Oliver Golding (SE) vs Julien Obry FRA 7

Obry is ranked 11th, he was runner-up in Wimbledon doubles and beat Daniel Berta at the European Summer Cups

philwrig · Hall of fame

Has Golding just emerged as a talent in the last 12 months or have there always been high expectations from an early age ?

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

i know he played in the Aberdeen Cup in 2006 for England in the u14s

DavidC · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:

Has Golding just emerged as a talent in the last 12 months or have there always been high expectations from an early age ?

Olly has always had precocious talent - it has just been a case of in what arena he applies himself. He's had a Wikipedia entry for a long while, which covers both his early acting and tennis careers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Golding

Something which will need to be added to his Wiki page is that this week he has debuted in the top 100 (at 87) making him the first British 15 year-old in the top 100 since Andy Murray

philwrig · Hall of fame

So this success is not unexpected. Hopefully he can build on it next year. One minor note of caution I would put forward is that he seems to have played alot of tournaments this year both junior and senior and he could probably do with a break in the near future. Compared to George Morgan who I very rarely see playing tournaments week in week out.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Ollie lost in singles 3 and 6, but is in doubles semis, don't know what that could mean for any hopes of qualifying for us open juniors?

wolf · Tennis legend

Tennis36 wrote:

Ollie lost in singles 3 and 6, but is in doubles semis, don't know what that could mean for any hopes of qualifying for us open juniors?

The way I am looking at the rules, and that's probably wrongly, if Ollie and Ahmed reach the doubles final and neither Jha or Sariemento reach the singles SF and David/King don't reach the doubles final, then they get SE's.

Not sure if Ollie can get a SE though as he is only on the alternates list and not the qualifying list.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

The 1993's look like a decent group with Ollie, Andrew Bettels and George Morgan. Heres hoping they can keep the good things going.

wales1994 · Club Coach

:D good few weeks for Ollie :) Did anyone watch a show where they were showing kids in sport and how them and their parents coped?? It was like him a skiier and a boxer?

DavidC · Tennis legend

Doubles SF

El Menshawy/Golding (GBR) v Kandath/Sarmiento (USA)

I think this match will hold the key to the SEs. There are no other ATP/ITF events in the region which would qualify someone for an SE, but singles is usually given priority over doubles. As Wolf indicates Sarmiento and Jha are the two unseeded players left in the Boys Singles. However Jha is not a factor, as he is not on the US Open Qualifying list. Sarmiento currently has a main draw WC, but I think that can still be converted into an SE.

Regardless of Sarmiento's status there will be at least one other SE on offer, and both Kandath plus Ahmed are down for US Open qualifying, so I expect whoever of the two is on the winning side to be offered one (no-one in the other doubles semi is eligible). Olly's chances seem to depend on Sarmiento losing both matches before the US Open sign-in closes this evening, and there being enough withdrawals since Tuesday's last update for Olly to be accepted for qualifying. I had missed the fact that, as Wolf says, you need to be on the qualifying list to be considered for an SE. The final slim chance for a main draw place is if the USTA can be persuaded to award him the last WC.

As a PS I have just spotted on the host website that Sarmiento and Jha both lost their singles today, so the SEs should be all down to the doubles match