Boys & Girls: US Open 2011 - Grade A (Week 36)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

RE: Boys & Girls: US Open 2011 - Grade A (Week 36)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

4*-1!

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

5-1*

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

GSM kyle 6-1 5-7 6-1

expect a showdown with Thiem next, JWR7, JWR CH 2, Thiem is way off the form he was showing in juniors and seniors at the end of last year

DavidC · Tennis legend

Excellent win for Kyle, who will play either Mitchell Krueger or the 7th seed Dominic Thiem. The Austrian beat him in the first round of Roland Garros, and won back to back Grade 1s on hard in North America last year.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

good stuff, kyle.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Well done Blackadder.

DavidC · Tennis legend

In the doubles Luke didn't make it so Kyle has paired up with the top 1995. Vesely/Horansky are the top seeds

R1

(4) Broady/Golding v De Loore/Delic (BEL/CRO)
(WC) Clark/Redlicki (USA) v (3) Morgan/Thiem (GBR/AUT)
Edmund/Milojevic (GBR/SRB) v Cagnina/Couacaud (BEL/FRA)

Spectator · All-time great

The New York Times, no less, is picking Mr Broady to win his first-round match.

indiana · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
The New York Times, no less, is picking Mr Broady to win his first-round match.

That's nice of them. Though Liam is seeded 9th, not 10th. 10th is George's seeding smile

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 5th of September 2011 09:48:01 AM

Spectator · All-time great

I know this doesn't affect our juniors at all because none of them is in the girls' main draw. But does it seem to anyone else that it's a really strong group this year? Caroline Garcia, Madison Keys, Sachia Vickery, Taylor Townsend, Daria Gavrilova, Yulia Putintseva, Eugenie Bouchard, Irina Kromacheva, Indy de Vroome, Ashleigh Barty, Francoise Abanda ... The majority of them are already top-500 ATP, and some of them have main draw matches today. When you think that Laura Robson, Sloane Stephens, Kristina Mladenovic and Timea Babos could all have participated in the juniors, too ... wow. 93/94/95 are quite interesting. (There are, for the record, the same number of 93s in the top 200 as there are 92s. Not to mention the stellar 94!)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Yes a strong field in the girls, but it all depends on who are taking it seriously, I'm not sure if Garcia the highest ranked of all of them is as motivated as some of the others.
Yes the next generation is coming its just taking alot longer than the previous bunch.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Certainly a very talented bunch. I think girls get labelled as prospects earlier because they need less physical development to reach seniors, but mentally may not be good enough. Players like Paszek, Chakvetadze, Ivanovic, Cornet - all seemed to rise to the top at a relatively young age before crumbling and dropping straight back down again. Pavyluchenkova and Lisicki seem to be the exceptions currently, who look likely to establish themselves alongside Vika and Caroline, but otherwise there really hasnt been much youngsters coming through of late.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
I know this doesn't affect our juniors at all because none of them is in the girls' main draw. But does it seem to anyone else that it's a really strong group this year? Caroline Garcia, Madison Keys, Sachia Vickery, Taylor Townsend, Daria Gavrilova, Yulia Putintseva, Eugenie Bouchard, Irina Kromacheva, Indy de Vroome, Ashleigh Barty, Francoise Abanda ... The majority of them are already top-500 ATP, and some of them have main draw matches today. When you think that Laura Robson, Sloane Stephens, Kristina Mladenovic and Timea Babos could all have participated in the juniors, too ... wow. 93/94/95 are quite interesting. (There are, for the record, the same number of 93s in the top 200 as there are 92s. Not to mention the stellar 94!)

The evidence so far does not support the current juniors being outstanding. Rather it's that the 1992 group were particularly weak. If you look at the top Juniors at the end of each year recently you see:

2007 (1989 born) A Radwanska 26 Azarenka 30

2008 (1990) Wozniacki 12 Cornet 16

2009 (1991) Pavlyuchenkova 41 Oudin 49

2010 (1992) McHale 115

Sloane Stephens will be the first 1993 to enter the top 100 next week, but still has a long way to go to match the top 50 rankings of the 1989-91 group.

One of the players you mention (Indy De Vroome) is currently engaged in a long match on court 6, which is delaying George Morgan's appearance (Oli and Liam play 3rd/4th on another court)

RJA · Hall of fame

Tennis36 wrote:
GSM kyle 6-1 5-7 6-1

expect a showdown with Thiem next, JWR7, JWR CH 2, Thiem is way off the form he was showing in juniors and seniors at the end of last year

Thiem is a set and a break down.