Girls: Wimbledon Juniors 2010

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

RE: Girls: Wimbledon Juniors 2010

Alexei · Lower Club Player

Tara has had a great month - she deserves massive congratulation for that. I hope she's feeling good about what she's achieved and I'm sure she can keep it up.

Looks like Pliskova is cruising into another final. Taken the 1st set and is a break up.

Osomec · Junior player

This isn't the Pliskova who was in the Australian final, it is the one that Laura beat in the semis.

Osomec · Junior player

Many people who are good athletes have a heavy build. They need to find the right event to utilise the physical attributes that they have. Tennis is probably not the perfect sport for these people, but there are a number of precedents that prove people with this body type can have success in the sport.

-- Edited by Osomec on Friday 2nd of July 2010 11:43:04 AM

Alexei · Lower Club Player

Cheers Osomec - i still find it hard to tell them apart. I gather one is a lefty and one a righty, and they have tattoos on their corresponding arms!

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

airsmashers wrote:

It appears David Mercer has apologised for his puppy fat remark

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3037862/BBC-apology-for-puppy-fat-jibe.html

Feel sorry for Laura too!! disbelief

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

I remember Tara posting on twitter that she was in great pain and I just assumed it was an injury but perhaps I was wrong.

Ive always been a big fan of Taras game and I really think she will develop into a bright prospect. Didnt get to see the match sadly but no doubt it would be very tough to come up against Laura anyway, yet alone at Wimbledon when you're also a British junior.

I will be interested to see if Tara sticks to the juniors for a bit, I think the match practise will do her good as it seems she still lacks the patience to grind out long points and playing the less powerful junior girls should be a good way of learning that.

Nevertheless, I wish her all the best and there is obviously no shame in her loss. Time to get behind Laura now and hope she can bring us a title.

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

Laura is playing. 4 all

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

NO!! one set down!! come on Laura doh

Alexei · Lower Club Player

Laura served for the set at 5-4 but lost the next 3 games.

She's not serving well - well under 50 per cent first serves in.

Alexei · Lower Club Player

Laura out 5-7 6-7.

She'll kick herself. Served for both sets... and had a 5-2 lead in the tie-breaker, but on all three occasions fell to pieces.

She didn't play well all through the match mind you, and not that well during the tournament from what I saw.

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

Who's that Japenese girl??????!!!!!! furious

I am looking at her file .....

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Laura was in an awful mood, it was truly horrible to watch. Dunno whats made her so bratty but she needs to resolve it fast.

Alexei · Lower Club Player

You can only think she put extra pressure on herself by playing the juniors, because everyone expected her to win it.

So as soon as her shots broke down she was extra hard on herself and spiralled into even deeper annoyance.

It was a risk, it didn't pay off. Had she won any of her 1st round matches in the senior competitions I'm sure she wouldn't have played juniors.

She's now got to consider carefully which 4 senior events she's going to play this year, and fingers crossed she can get a wild card for the US Open. That would be awesome.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity

I didn't see today's match, but Laura didn't play well for much of the match vs Tara or from what I saw generally in the tournament and even before today hadn't particularly looked as if she was enjoying things.

Hopefully just a temporary thing, maybe linked to pressure to perform in juniors particularly at Wimbledon.

Anyway, hope she's back in much better fettle soon.