I don't know whether Oli's tweet was aimed at this board or not, though I wouldn't be too surprised if it was.

First of all, I really admire a player like Kyle who seemingly manages to be such a complete professional at such a young age and I do think he is likely to go the furthest of all early-mid 90s Brits, but I think Kyle's coolness, etc, makes him fairly exceptional, even among the top young tennis players.

However, I also like the way Oli wears his heart on his sleeve - he may sometimes come across as a bit immature (though he can't be that immature to have achieved what he has already ... perhaps it would be more accurate to say he sometimes comes across like a bull in a china shop!) and he has produced more than one 'facepalm' / 'oh no, he didn't say that, did he?' moment and says a fair few things I don't agree with (as do most people in the world who have the courage to express their opinions from time to time LOL) but he comes across as very open and genuine and that's quite refreshing. I also enjoyed some of his OTT celebrations in junior slam matches, I must admit - he must be great fun to support from courtside when he is managing to channel his emotions in a positive way.

I imagine he might be more prone to frustration at the moment precisely because he sees some of his peers (particularly the one he beat to win the US Open juniors) moving ahead and he has been held back by injury this year. Not right to let it show, of course, but at least slightly understandable nevertheless.

Anyway, while what I am about to say certainly doesn't mean I am already predicting them both to get into the ATP top 10, I can still imagine Oli being the Greg to Kyle's Tim, in terms of temperament, propensity for getting into scrapes and the latter being more consistently successful than the former. Which is really just a way of saying that two players can be very different yet can still both have worthwhile careers.

Of course, I don't know Oli and could be completely wrong in the most positive bits of my assessment for the same reason that the people having a go at him on here could be wrong in the most negative bits of theirs (i.e. because we don't know anything like the full story) but I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt for now. No doubt he needs to learn a bit more self-control if he wants to get anywhere near the top 100, but plenty of players have done well after doing some dodgy things in their younger days, Federer being a prime example, so there is no reason to write off Oli's chances now.

Others here are definitely right to say that if Oli wants to be top 100, he's going to have to get used to ignoring it when a lot more people than us make snap judgements about him based on, in many cases, even less knowledge or understanding. I would hate that myself, but hopefully the money (and, most of all, the chance to play the sport you love in some of the biggest events) starts to make up for it at some point - and it is worth players remembering that it is largely because top level sport is something people like to pontificate about a lot that there is so much interest and hence so much money in it. The players I have always felt really sorry for are the ones like Boggo who don't try to court publicity, aren't making that much money and yet still get slated by the press and public on a regular basis.