Boys & Girls: 2012 Australian Open - Grade A (Week 4)

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Boys & Girls: 2012 Australian Open - Grade A (Week 4)

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

The wording on the rankings page is a little ambiguous. I believe it works as follows:

You get 250s/180d bonus per slam you win.

If you win 3 non-slam grade A events then you get another 250s/180d points.

For doubles, each player is scored individually - you don't need to keep the same partner. Two of Khromacheva's three doubles wins were at slams so she didn't get the three wins bonus for the third win.

SotoTennis · Improver

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?v=10151228566375512&set=vb.119078078123736&type=2&theater check out Liam and Joshs highlights and reaction on link above as well as www.sototennis.com

-- Edited by DavidC on Monday 30th of January 2012 06:50:49 PM

Maza1987 · Challenger level

thanks for the vid
keep up the good work at soto tennis

DavidC · Tennis legend

Maza1987 wrote:
thanks for the vid
keep up the good work at soto tennis

Seconded smile

New rankings show Liam at 3, Kyle 9 and Josh 20

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting to read Greg saying :

"After we got back from Mexico I spent a month with Kyle, Luke and their coaches looking at areas we wanted to improve. Technically, it was the serve and the return - the two shots that are key for any player...."

Some more work on one of those two areas by young Andy Murray and he could be a real player smile

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 2nd of February 2012 02:55:59 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

There's a lovely colour picture of of JWH & Liam B with their doubles AO Boys' Doubles trophy in Melbourne & an article about the current crop of promising youngsters in today's London Evening Standard.

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
There's a lovely colour picture of of JWH & Liam B with their doubles AO Boys' Doubles trophy in Melbourne & an article about the current crop of promising youngsters in today's London Evening Standard.

A good read (though I'm impressed with your self-restraint in not referring to the shocking standard of the editing, or lack of it! wink ) - thankfully, Greg stops short of referring to them as a "golden generation" evileye if only just - but I do think he's right about there being enough of them now to spur each other on, with one of them taking a step up making that same step up seem more attainable to the others as well.

I've also been getting the impression for a while that the people who are looking after the up-and-coming Brits nowadays are doing a far better job of getting across the message that it is at least as cool to work hard as it is to play hard - though to be fair to the coaches who went before, there can be a random element in that, in the sense of depending on what the strongest characters within any given group are like.