Boys: French Open - Grade A (Week 23)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys: French Open - Grade A (Week 23)

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: Jonny O'Mara lost to (12) Dominic Weidinger (AUT) by 3-6 7-6(5) 6-1

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Decent effort by Jonny against an inform opponent

chicken · Social player

I was expecting more from Jonny than 1st round qualy's !

DavidC · Tennis legend

First round draw out - analysis later. Kyle is in the opposite half to Kyrgios, but could meet Quinzi in the semis

R1 (L64)

Christian Garin (CHI) v (15) Cameron Norrie (GBR)
(5) Kyle Edmund (GBR) v Elias Ymer (SWE)
Naoki Nakagawa (JPN) v Luke Bambridge (GBR)

steven · Tennis legend

Not only is the RG site still showing "NZL" for Cameron, but that's an evil draw for a seeded player - Garin is JWR 16 (CH 7) and ATP WR 521, so he only just missed out on a seeding on both counts.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Yes, Cameron may be the seed, but on clay Garin is the clear favourite

Luke has a decent opener against a player he beat at the Eddie Herr, but will probably come up against second seed Nikola Milojevic in round 2, who beat him comfortably in Milan.

Kyle's opening opponent was top 5 before concentrating on Futures events, reaching the Orange Bowl final. A challenging starter, but overall Kyle has the best draw.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Don't fear anyone as far as kyle'concerened , quinzi would be tough, but kyles beaten him last two times, don't fear kyrgois on clay

Spectator · All-time great

If Kyrgios can beat Stepanek on clay, one can hardly discount him as a threat. Norrie's draw is wretched luck. And Edmund could have to face Alexander Zverev and Quinzi in rapid succession. Humph.,

korriban · Challenger level

Spectator wrote:
If Kyrgios can beat Stepanek on clay, one can hardly discount him as a threat. Norrie's draw is wretched luck. And Edmund could have to face Alexander Zverev and Quinzi in rapid succession. Humph.,

True. But Zverev and Quinzi can't be too thrilled at having to face Kyle I guess. I completely agree about Kyrgios. Even on clay he beat Stepanek in 3 and didnt disgrace himself against Cilic, which is about 2 or 3 classes above anything he'll face in this draw. How one could NOT be worried about Kyrgios is the question.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Luke is first up on court 8, Kyle third on court 17 and Cameron fifth on court 15. Quinzi won a tough 3 setter to capture a Futures title in Casablanca this afternoon, so even with a Monday start won't have much time to get used to Paris conditions.

TMH · Futures qualifying

korriban wrote:
Gianluigi Quinzi has just warmed up for the tournament by winning the $10k in Casablanca, Morocco. This was a field with 2 players ranked in the 200s and another just outside whom he beat in the final.
I'd have to say there are a heap of players arriving at the junior tournament in fantastic form including Kyrgios, Quinzi, Zverev, Coric and Edmund certainly all in the mix. From what I read, Quinzi is by far the best clay courter (to the point of his Argentinian coach being criticised for not exposing him enough to the other surfaces), however Kyrgios' power and outstanding serve compared to the others makes him very hard to beat even on an off day. The good thing about juniors is that shocks are commonplace, but its hard to look beyond these 5 boys.

You forget Garin, who beat Lajovic earlier in the year and very nearly beat Chardy. Hard to choose between them right now. Realistically I think it's between Kyrgios, Quinzi, Garin and Kyle for this tournament, though you can't really rule out Milojevic, Djere, Baldi, Zverev or Coric.

It's been a while since I've seen so many highly rated juniors making impressions on the pro tour. Couacaud has won a Futures title as well.

Good first set for Kyle. Ymer is a very good player, reached a couple of Futures semi-finals this year. But of course Kyle has won two.

-- Edited by TMH on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 01:43:11 PM

TMH · Futures qualifying

First break point he's had all set. smile 6-2, *4-5.

People are really on the ball here.

Down 0-30 serving to stay in it.

-- Edited by TMH on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 02:07:18 PM

korriban · Challenger level

Gianluigi Quinzi has just warmed up for the tournament by winning the $10k in Casablanca, Morocco. This was a field with 2 players ranked in the 200s and another just outside whom he beat in the final.

I'd have to say there are a heap of players arriving at the junior tournament in fantastic form including Kyrgios, Quinzi, Zverev, Coric and Edmund certainly all in the mix. From what I read, Quinzi is by far the best clay courter (to the point of his Argentinian coach being criticised for not exposing him enough to the other surfaces), however Kyrgios' power and outstanding serve compared to the others makes him very hard to beat even on an off day. The good thing about juniors is that shocks are commonplace, but its hard to look beyond these 5 boys.

TMH · Futures qualifying

Into a third. cry

-- Edited by TMH on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 02:23:50 PM