Youth Olympics, Singapore: August 14-26

DavidC · Tennis legend

Youth Olympics, Singapore: August 14-26

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

morgan is 1 out btw!!, frustrating for him, hope he gets in

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Olly has added a"u" to his surname for his assault on the Youth Olympics I notice. I don't care much for pointing out grammar and spelling on forums (unless it's Stevenhey Count!

) but when the press make such elementary mistakes its embarrassing.

In Saturday's guardian there was a picture of Marlon Harewood with a caption and article about Jermaine Beckford and another basic spelling mistake I can't remember the exact word for.

I wish I had trained as a sports journalist all those years ago now

indiana · Tennis legend

Not mistakes in The Grauniad, surely not smile

steven · Tennis legend

johnnylad wrote:

Olly has added a"u" to his surname for his assault on the Youth Olympics I notice. I don't care much for pointing out grammar and spelling on forums (unless it's Stevenhey Count! ) but when the press make such elementary mistakes its embarrassing.

In Saturday's guardian there was a picture of Marlon Harewood with a caption and article about Jermaine Beckford and another basic spelling mistake I can't remember the exact word for.

I wish I had trained as a sports journalist all those years ago now

That's not the first time the press have mixed up tennis player Ollie Goulding and the singer Ellie Goulding. They look so alike ... wink

Maza1987 · Challenger level

In related, but unrelated news. The venues for the games include this

Let's hope there is now wayward freekicks. wink

and http://www.noelshack.com/up/aac/10floatingplatformbaygrandstandfromritzcarltonhotel1.jpg-d4ab130779.jpg

-- Edited by Maza1987 on Wednesday 14th of July 2010 11:14:31 PM

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

What would be really cool was if the football pitch could be sailed away and replaced with the ground for the sport, re-using the same stand!

The age rules seem a bit daft here with respect to the age at which female tennis players transition from juniors to the women's tour. Laura isn't elligible to play because she is too young, despite winning a junior slam 2 years ago.

-- Edited by RBBOT on Wednesday 14th of July 2010 11:29:39 PM

Osomec · Junior player

Yes, the age rules vary from sport to sport, and seem to have been carefully and sensibly thought out, except in girls' tennis, where it is obvious to anyone with a bit of relevant knowledge that the decision made is a dumb one. Perhaps someone with influence in tennis doesn't want the tournament to be a winner. Let's see how many of the best eligible girls turn up. Not many would be my guess.

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Oliver Golding JWR 29 v (1) Marton Fucsovics (HUN) JWR 1 / ATP 1424

Oh Fucsovics ...

-- Edited by steven on Friday 13th of August 2010 02:16:07 PM

Maza1987 · Challenger level

**** £$%@ **** f******!

*leaves*

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

ouch, still hopefull he could come through thou

johnnylad · Tennis legend

That's the dude that won Junior WImbledon this year

DavidC · Tennis legend

A tough draw, but the Hungarian has had a modest time of it since Wimbledon. Apparently Ollie is rooming with Tom Daley

Doubles R1

Ouyang/Wang (CHN) v Golding (GBR) / Vesely (CZE)

Vesely is a very tall leftie (not that you would know it from the ITF site, who have one of their infamous height typos http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/player.asp?player=100124174) who looks like a cross between Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek, currently ranked 6

-- Edited by DavidC on Friday 13th of August 2010 06:30:33 PM

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

golding is last on centre court tommorow, it says live scores will update every 30 mins. i was hoping for full on live score, but fair enuf, better than nothing

DavidC · Tennis legend

Play starts at 3.30am BST so I guess Ollie will be on around 10.30