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DavidC


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Junior Davis Cup Finals - San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Week 39)
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Andrew Bettles, Oliver Golding and George Morgan are in Mexico along with 15 other teams  for the finals, hoping to go one better than last year's junior Fed Cup team. The other qualified nations are:

Argentina
Australia
Bolivia
Chile
Czech Republic
France
India
Korea
Mexico
Morocco
Poland
Slovak Republic
Spain
USA
Uzbekistan

Here is a preview from the Davis Cup site

http://www.daviscup.com/news/newsarticle.asp?articleid=16336

There should be 4 groups of 4 playing in a round robin format, 2 singles and 1 doubles per tie, starting on Tuesday, followed by a knockout format to decide the final positions.

Here is a link to an article this weekend about Oliver Golding, which was included in the Mens Section by The Knight, for the benefit of anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/daviscup/6234319/Oliver-Golding-takes-centre-stage-on-the-junior-tennis-circuit.html


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Any realistic chance of a win here ?

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The groups have been drawn and we have avoided the top 3 seeds

UZBEKISTAN (4)
GB                (6)
MOROCCO
ARGENTINA

Our first tie sees us play Morocco





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philwrig wrote:

Any realistic chance of a win here ?


It is far more difficult to assess the competition at under 16 for boys than girls. While all the top girls are playing ITF or WTA tournaments some of the best boys stick to regional competition. Last year the US beat Argentina in the final, and Argentina fielded three players with modest ITF rankings (Velotti, Collarini and Arguello), who are now all in the ITF top 10. So Argentina must be regarded as potentially dangerous, and Uzbekistan apparently impressed in the Regional qualifying (though their number 1 lost to Jack Carpenter recently). Morocco looks to be a nice opener though. The seedings are decided on an amalgam of ITF rankings, regional rankings and performance in Davis Cup qualifying - so it is our relatively high ITF rankings which give us a seeding, but its a very approximate estimate.


 



-- Edited by DavidC on Tuesday 29th of September 2009 10:00:48 AM

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So to win would be an exceptional result ?

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philwrig wrote:

So to win would be an exceptional result ?


Given that in the 24 year history of the junior Davis and Fed Cups we have never won either of them, it would have to be exceptional.

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A good opening day

GBR 3 Morocco 0

George Morgan d. Ismael Lahlou 6-2 6-2
Oliver Golding d. Younes Matrougui 6-4 6-2
Bettles/Morgan d. Lahlou/Derbani 6-4 7-5

Argentina upset Uzbekistan so we will play the Uzbeks today

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Team GB won there opening tie 3-0 

O. Golding (1) d Y. Matrougui (1) 6-4 6-2
G. Morgan (2) d I. Lahlou (2)       6-4 6-2
Morgan/ A. Bettles d Lahlou/H. Derbani 6-4 7-5

The other tie in the group was won by Argentina who defeated Uzbekistan 2-1

Uzbekistan were not the only seeded team to suffer a defeat in the opening match 
Spain (5) and Bolivia (8) also were beaten in there respective groups 

Today we play Uzbekistan     

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We nearly won the junior fed cup last year.

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Day 2

GB 3-0 Uzbekistan

(2) George Morgan def. (3) Abduvoris Saitmukhamedov 6-4 6-3
(1) Oliver Golding def. (1) Sergey Shipilov 6-0 7-6 (1)
Andrew Bettles & George Morgan def. Jakhongir Jalalov & Sergey Shilipov 6-4 6-4

We play Argentina today.

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Great sruff. Kind of makes the seedings look a bit silly.

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great wins, our doubles team having that futures run was obviously a great warm-up for this

"Great sruff. Kind of makes the seedings look a bit silly"

Especially as Argentina beat them as well




Are there semi-finals or do they go straight through to a final?


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semis i assume, each of the 4 group's winner.

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Need to beat the Argies then.

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GB won 1st set of 1st rubber 6-2.

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