which young gb girl to make top 250

Priesty · Challenger level

RE: which young gb girl to make top 250

scottie1 · Futures level

Harriet Dart I thought but she has gone down in the rankings+== injury I think?

Ratty · County player

I'm sorry to seem even more like Mr Spock than usual, but what's the point of this speculation?

I guess it's a manifestation of the human desire to establish status. Maybe it's analogous to people saying: "I saw Radiohead play in a pub in Oxford in 1991, when they were called On a Friday. I could see the talent - look, here's a review I wrote at the time in the local music magazine."

I can remember Carl Maes saying to me a few years ago, when he was Head of Junior Tennis, or something like that, at the LTA: "I think I can tell which young players AREN'T going to make it - pretty much ALL of them. But I have no clue which of the one in five hundred IS going to make it."

smile

indiana · Tennis legend

I was wondering what was taking Ratty so long to get in here LOL

Actually in this case, as I indicated earlier, I wouldn't disagree that predicting the future of particulatly the younger juniors is absolutely full of uncertainty.

However, the general responses to his / her interventions re predictive posts still stand. It is absolutely harmless, and can be thought provoking. It's really just an angle on discussing our young players. Certainly don't see it as any points scoring exercise, though fortunately for most this thread will no doubt long be forgotten about in a few years, indeed sooner than that.

Certainly I think such as "I guess it's a manifestation of the human desire to establish status" is to use the technical term - bollocks !

philwrig · Hall of fame

Priesty wrote:
Maybe Eleanor Dean? Assuming she can recover from injury problems.

Update on Eleanor Dean, she is back hitting, but not sure how much she is able to do on a daily/weekly basis. Training abroad, but has had numerous injury setbacks during her teen years. At least its a start, great talent, hopefully at some stage she will be able to fulfil that huge talent.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Is she still down to play Lanzarote next week?

LordBrownof · Futures level

Where is she training?

philwrig · Hall of fame

LordBrownof wrote:
Where is she training?

Don't know.

philwrig · Hall of fame

paulisi wrote:
Is she still down to play Lanzarote next week?

Wow, I hadn't realised she had entered anywhere, doesn't look like she's withdrawn, fingers crossed.

DavidC · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
LordBrownof wrote:
Where is she training?
Don't know.

She was training at the Kim Clijsters Academy in Belgium in the latter part of 2013 - don't know if she is still there.