Week 24 - ITF ($10K) - Alkmaar, Netherlands Clay

Reeltime · Satellite level

RE: Week 24 - ITF ($10K) - Alkmaar, Netherlands Clay

scottie1 · Futures level

yes fantastic result this girl has got ability saw her play Babos last year in Edinburgh last year She was only 14 but a class act. after all the fuss about Laura Robson(who I still like) it is refreshing for someone so young to win a tournament without all the fuss from the press

Alexei · Lower Club Player

Is she playing Wimbledon juniors next week?

Spectator · All-time great

Congratulations to Ms Dean -- and may sanity continue to prevail. As people have been saying, it is a tremendous accomplishment and a good sign, but there's a long road ahead.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Alexei wrote:
Is she playing Wimbledon juniors next week?

No, she's playing another $10K in Holland.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

That's this week - should could still accept a wild card next week but it's unlikely given her lack of preparation on grass.

LordBrownof · Futures level

And she should as well. So she hasn't practised much, who cares! She didn't like clay very much before this week and she has nothing to lose.

indiana · Tennis legend

But I am sure she would always have been able to get a WC into Wimbledon girls MD and it seems Eleanor and her team very deliberately chose to go in a different direction this year and it has already gone much better than I am sure even they expected.

Can't see them changing that direction, and that seems fair enough to me. There will be another Wimbledon next year.

steven · Tennis legend

scottie1 wrote:
yes fantastic result this girl has got ability saw her play Babos last year in Edinburgh last year She was only 14 but a class act. after all the fuss about Laura Robson(who I still like) it is refreshing for someone so young to win a tournament without all the fuss from the press

It has got the odd mention in the press ... but only from journos who follow me on Twitter (maybe a coincidence or maybe because they read this forum too, but if it's not a coincidence, it would suggest that we are managing to get the message across about some of the GB achievements at the lower levels outside the UK, which I've always thought is part of what we're here for smile ) but just 'on the radar' type mentions and not high levels of fuss, as you say, which is definitely a good thing.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 20th of June 2011 09:44:25 PM

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great achievement from Eleanor. Will be interesting to see how she develops by next wimbledon where i suspect she may be a good bet for the junior title

I wonder if she'll be playing the challengers/ 10k event in GBR in july?

LordBrownof · Futures level

How many events are you allowed to play at 15?

Happycynic · Pro player

15 Years Old
i. Between the date of a players fifteenth (15th) birthday and the day before her sixteenth (16th) birthday a player may participate in a maximum of ten (10) professional
Tournaments plus the Championships (if she qualifies), plus Fed Cup.
ii. These players may receive a maximum of three (3) Wild Cards into WTA Tour and/or ITF
Womens Circuit Tournaments.

I think this is Eleanor's fourth tournament.

albino · Intermediate Club Player

It's 10 tournaments between her 15th and 16th birthdays, rather than in a calendar year. Her birthday was at the start of June, so the current tournament in Breda is only her second one.

-- Edited by albino on Thursday 23rd of June 2011 10:01:27 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

albino wrote:
It's 10 tournaments between her 15th and 16th birthdays, rather than in a calendar year. Her birthday was at the start of June, so the current tournament in Breda is only her second one.

-- Edited by albino on Thursday 23rd of June 2011 10:01:27 PM

Her birthdate, according to both the WTA site and the ITF Junior site, is 6th January 1996 ( some profiles such as coretennis.net may have her birthdate the American way round, i.e. 01.06, in that case again confirmimg that it is the 6th January ).

I make her now having 3 senior tournament since then, i.e. the Sutton 25K end of January / beginning of February and Week 24 and 25 10Ks in the Netherlands.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 24th of June 2011 12:27:01 AM

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

only just looked at this thread!! wow, just wow