Going to show my ignorance big time here - but could someone help with this query?

Not sure if this is the right thread either - it concerns, I think, Junior Wimbledon Qualifying.

I go to the Boodles Challenge every year just because it is only a 20min drive from my house, parking easy (free) and the tix for the first 3 days are a decent deal considering the players that participate.

Over the last 2 years I've seen more peeps there from the LTA and I think last year or the year before they held the Wimbledon Jurior WC play offs at the venue.

I've seen a few lads today and am ashamed to admit I haven't a clue who they are!!!
The only person I could name was Martin Lee .....
There was one youngster practising on the court next to the show court and I eavesdropped a bit and understand he 'has a WC into the main draw'. I didn't recognise him so think he must mean for the Junior Boys event; he was quite tall, tanned and dark straight hair.

Anyhow - can anyone tell me if they know whether all the lads are (a) juniors and (b) if they're likely to be there all week and (c) maybe some names to listen out for/watch?

I left my camera charger at the parents last weekend (85miles away, can't afford time to go get it) so have borrowed a camera for the rest of the week and will try to put up piccies (but they might go on the andymurray forum as I'm more familiar with that).

For the record today I watched Dammit v Gael, Haas v Robredo and Nalby v Troicki. Winners in bold. It was great to see the 'oldies' out there. Haas looked in good shape, Nalby can still hit stunning winners from the baseline and Gael didn't disappoint in the 'fun' department but it was Gasquet who won. Tomorrow = Simon v Del Potro, Ferrer v Verdasco and Troicki v Dolgopolov. £38 a ticket ....

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Stircrazy wrote:

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................ Pity Bloomers couldn't've been in the mix...

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 Local press comment

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That is a remarkably detailed article for a local - I assume you or Richard fed him the (accurate) info re other players' rankings, injuries, etc? Either that or the journo is a proper tennis fan who could be bothered to do a bit of research!

daisy wrote:

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Going to show my ignorance big time here - but could someone help with this query?

Not sure if this is the right thread either - it concerns, I think, Junior Wimbledon Qualifying.

I go to the Boodles Challenge every year just because it is only a 20min drive from my house, parking easy (free) and the tix for the first 3 days are a decent deal considering the players that participate.

Over the last 2 years I've seen more peeps there from the LTA and I think last year or the year before they held the Wimbledon Jurior WC play offs at the venue.

I've seen a few lads today and am ashamed to admit I haven't a clue who they are!!!
The only person I could name was Martin Lee .....
There was one youngster practising on the court next to the show court and I eavesdropped a bit and understand he 'has a WC into the main draw'. I didn't recognise him so think he must mean for the Junior Boys event; he was quite tall, tanned and dark straight hair.

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"Quite tall" cuts out Cox & Evo, so it must be a junior MD WC. It can't be George Morgan, Oliver Golding, Liam Broady or Kyle Edmund because they don't need WCs and two of them were playing senior Wimbledon qualifying in Roehampton today anyway.

So maybe one of the Brits on the junior Wimbledon alternates list that starts part-way down this page http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournamentacceptancelist.asp?tournament=1100024594&event=1100140424&order=Position&gender=Boys - or to narrow that down, you could start with the list of main draw WCs for Roehampton juniors - that may be what they were actually talking about given that Wimbledon junior WCs have not been announced yet, though they may know who most of them are already:

• Luke Bambridge
• Josh Ward-Hibbert
• Jonathan Cornish
• Toby Martin
• Oliver Hudson
• Evan Hoyt

I think Luke Bambridge is tall and dark but hasn't got particularly straight hair, similarly Toby Martin, though it might be one of them. You aren't Silvio Berlusconi (thankfully!) so Joshua Ward-Hibbert probably doesn't count as 'tanned', while Evan Hoyt does not have dark hair and I have no idea what Oliver Hudson looks like

My best guess from your description would be Jonathan Cornish - see http://www.lta.org.uk/News/British-tennis-weekly-features/Junior-watch/2011/May/Junior-watch-British-tennis-players---5th-May/

Thanks Steven - I think it's Jon Cornish that I saw and it must be a WC for Wimbledon Juriors ?Qualifying.
I'd have recognised Cox and Evo. In fact Cox played at Boodles last year (and happily chatted up a bunch of 'ladies' after the match).

Set all now Rice and Thornley

Best of 3, no 3rd set tie-break though. Rice/Thornley now 3-0 up in the 3rd

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