Boys: Wimbledon Juniors 2010

Smidster · Challenger level

RE: Boys: Wimbledon Juniors 2010

thegingerlightbulb · Intermediate Club Player

Yeah agreed. Andrew Castle's blunt "He wont make it" was way over the top

Akhenaten · Pro player

Olli takes the second set. smile

4-6 6-4.

Come on Olli - prove idiot Castle wrong!

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

oli wins amazing

Akhenaten · Pro player

Yay!

indiana · Tennis legend

Ah re JL - he was nervous early on but it was a good performance overall. AC seems still needs more convincing - he's got a lot to work on if he's going to join the paid ranks.

I missed the first half, but what I saw was pretty encouraging and he closed the match of out in good style when he had a chance.

Josh · Challenger level

Some pretty ridiculous commentry though. They were suggesting he should be taken off to an American Uni where 'he could be smacked and made to run' after missing some of the easier shots.

steven · Tennis legend

I only caught parts of the match, but the commies were so down on Oli it was crazy. Brilliant to see him winning after looking a bit out of it at the end of the 1st set, which to hear the commies you'd have thought he'd lost 6-0!

steven · Tennis legend

Oli's next opponent also came from a set down against a top 10 seed and is a bit of a mystery.

SF: Oliver Golding JWR 40 ATP UNR v (Q) Ben Mitchell (AUS) JWR 51 ATP 851

Mitchell lost in R1 at Roehampton, which was his first event outside Asia/Oceania, so he is learning fast! He reached a Futures semi in AUS recently and the Futures there tend to be relatively weak, which might suggest he's over-ranked. Then again, being limited to tournaments in that part of the world up to now might mean the opposite.

steven · Tennis legend

ACE report that Ben Mitchell is the younger brother of "Romeo" from Home & Away - you can always rely on Alexandra for the 'important' stuff

thegingerlightbulb · Intermediate Club Player

steven wrote:

Oli's next opponent also came from a set down against a top 10 seed and is a bit of a mystery.

SF: Oliver Golding JWR 40 ATP UNR v (Q) Ben Mitchell (AUS) JWR 51 ATP 851

Mitchell lost in R1 at Roehampton, which was his first event outside Asia/Oceania, so he is learning fast! He reached a Futures semi in AUS recently and the Futures there tend to be relatively weak, which might suggest he's over-ranked. Then again, being limited to tournaments in that part of the world up to now might mean the opposite.

The fact that Golding is playing Michell shows just how bad Andrew Castle's commentary is. He confidently asserted that Golding would now face the Bosnian player, even though his match wasnt finished and indeed Mitchell went on to win it. Another irritating mistake that Castle made was a couple of days ago when he compared Dean to Robson and explained to us all that Dean was only 14 and Robson hadn't won Wimbledon until she was 15, which is in fact completely wrong as Robson was just 14 and a half years old

PockyTastic · Futures level

thegingerlightbulb wrote:

steven wrote:

Oli's next opponent also came from a set down against a top 10 seed and is a bit of a mystery.

SF: Oliver Golding JWR 40 ATP UNR v (Q) Ben Mitchell (AUS) JWR 51 ATP 851

Mitchell lost in R1 at Roehampton, which was his first event outside Asia/Oceania, so he is learning fast! He reached a Futures semi in AUS recently and the Futures there tend to be relatively weak, which might suggest he's over-ranked. Then again, being limited to tournaments in that part of the world up to now might mean the opposite.

The fact that Golding is playing Michell shows just how bad Andrew Castle's commentary is. He confidently asserted that Golding would now face the Bosnian player, even though his match wasnt finished and indeed Mitchell went on to win it. Another irritating mistake that Castle made was a couple of days ago when he compared Dean to Robson and explained to us all that Dean was only 14 and Robson hadn't won Wimbledon until she was 15, which is in fact completely wrong as Robson was just 14 and a half years old

Castle's mistake doesn't surprise me in the least. He is perhaps the worst commentator going. When he isn't brown nosing MacEnroe and Lloyd, he is making factual errors of the most basic kind. He really should stick to day time TV.

indiana · Tennis legend

One thing worth noting re Oliver is that he is still 16 ( dob 29/09/93 ), he is only just over 3 months older than Liam Broady and closer in age to him than he is to many of the 1993 boys that he is more associated with.

Osomec · Junior player

Laura was 14 and a quarter when she won in 2008. She is now sixteen and a quarter, but today's commentator said she is sixteen and a half.

Osomec · Junior player

Oliver Golding was the only 1993 boy in the quarters, all the others were 1992s. Boys' juniors is very heavily dominated by boys at the top end of the eligible age range, whereas girls' juniors is not. This is the sort of thing that the commentators covering the junior matches should explain, but they rarely do.

-- Edited by Osomec on Thursday 1st of July 2010 03:29:07 PM