Boys: Wimbledon Juniors - Grade A (Week 27)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys: Wimbledon Juniors - Grade A (Week 27)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Pleased for Jonny that he at least has a chance of making it through.

RJA · Hall of fame

Sensible compromise with regard to Jonny.

Jhun didn't get a main draw wild card. He tweeted

Very dissapointed not to get the WC into Junior Wimby. Same old story.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Does Jhun deserve one? Done nothing on the main tour and i believe has played very little junior events.

RJA · Hall of fame

O'Mara came from behind to win in 3 and the top seed who he would have played in the second round went out. Malik won in 3 but Poland-Smith lost in 2.

DavidC · Tennis legend

4 of the 6 matches were completed - the remaining 2 are on Friday's programme to finish. Both Jonny and Jamie came from behind

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(16/WC) Jonny O'Mara d. Brayden Schnur (CAN) 3-6 7-5 6-3
(13) Luca George Tatomir (ROU) d. (WC) Callum Poland-Smith 7-6(4) 6-4
(WC) Jamie Malik d. (4) Hannes Wagner (GER) 4-6 7-5 6-4
(WC) Robbie Ridout leads (11) Jaime Ignacio Galleguillos (CHI) 7-5 3-4
(7) Matteo Donati (ITA) level with (WC) Julian Cash 2-6 7-6(3)
(12) Simon Friis Soendergaard (DEN) d. (WC) Adam Glynn 4-6 6-4 6-3

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Daniel Valent (SUI) v (16/WC) Jonny O'Mara
(WC) Jamie Malik v Gustav Hansson (SWE)
(6) Cem Ilkel (TUR) or Paul Woerner (GER) v (WC) Robbie Ridout or (11) Jaime Ignacio Galleguillos (CHI)
(7) Matteo Donati (ITA) or (WC) Julian Cash v (14) Francisco Bahamonde (ARG)

DavidC · Tennis legend

...and Julian makes 3 smile Jamie edged a second tough 3 setter

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(11) Jaime Ignacio Galleguillos (CHI) d. (WC) Robbie Ridout 5-7 6-3 6-4
(WC) Julian Cash d. (7) Matteo Donati (ITA) 6-2 6-7(3) 6-3

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(16/WC) Jonny O'Mara d. Daniel Valent (SUI) 6-2 6-4
(WC) Jamie Malik d. Gustav Hansson (SWE) 6-3 6-7(5) 8-6
(WC) Julian Cash d. (14) Francisco Bahamonde (ARG) 6-4 6-3

The Q slots include two tough looking ones against Nishioka and second seed Nikola Milojevic

-- Edited by DavidC on Friday 28th of June 2013 08:41:07 PM

RJA · Hall of fame

Jonny got through. He just tweeted

Qualified for Junior Wimbledon! Extremely pumped! Play either tomorrow or Monday! Appreciated the WC to Qs! #useditwell #wimbledon

Good to see him acknowledge the WC.

steven · Tennis legend

You beat me to it

Excellent to see it all turned out well in the end - in fact, if anything qualifying makes it even better than getting a MDWC in the first place would have been

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Best news I've heard all day - apart from possibly Laura's win this morning.

Good for Jonny

PockyTastic · Futures level

R1: Evan HOYT (WC) vs Nick KYRGIOS (AUS) (1)
R1: Billy HARRIS (WC) vs Q
R1: Cameron NORRIE vs Laslo DJERE (SRB) (4)
R1: Peter ASHLEY (WC) vs Q
R1: Luke BAMBRIDGE vs Noah RUBIN (USA)
R1: Kyle EDMUND (5) vs Yeong Seok KIM (KOR)
R1: Joshua SAPWELL (WC) vs Stefan KOZLOV (USA)
R1: Samm BUTLER (WC) vs Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA) (6)
R1: Thomas COLAUTTI (WC) vs Q
R1: Alexander SENDEGEYA (WC) vs Bradley MOUSLEY (AUS)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Unusually they drew the main draw last night with slots left for qualifiers - perhaps they judged that qualifying was likely to finish late Friday or possibly on Saturday because of the weather and they need to draw by early Friday evening, because of the Saturday schedule. Cameron continues his run of tricky draws against top seeds (at the French he lost to eventual winner Christian Garin, whilst at Roehampton he played Alexander Zverev, who is in today's final against Nick Kyrgios), while Evan and Samm also have two of the best in the draw (Kyrgios and Quinzi). Kyle is again in Zverev's section, with Nishioka a potentially tricky second round opponent.

R1 (L64)

(1) Nick Kyrgios (AUS) v (WC) Evan Hoyt
(WC) Billy Harris v Q
(4) Laslo Djere (SRB) v Cameron Norrie
(Q) v (WC) Peter Ashley
Luke Bambridge v Noah Rubin (USA)
(5) Kyle Edmund v Young Seok Kim (KOR)
Stefan Kozlov (USA) v (WC) Joshua Sapwell
(6) Gianluigi Quiinzi (ITA) v (WC) Samm Butler
(Q) v (WC) Thomas Colautti
Bradley Mousley (AUS) v (WC) Alexander Sendegeya

Spectator · All-time great

Those are, on the whole, truly wretched draws. Given the strength of the field, there aren't many good draws. But it would take some fairly good play by all of ours to get beyond the 2nd round. Think Mr Edmund can do it, and possibly Mr Bambridge. Beyond that, tough to see ... though one can always hope.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, Billy Harris only lost in a third set TB against one of the best players in the draw last week. Alex Sendegeya has had some good results recently. Kyle's a 'yes'. Luke is a definite possibility. Tom and Pete have qualifiers (they'll still have plenty of work to do but hey)
It's only Evan, Cameron and Samm who are truly in a bad place.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Those are, on the whole, truly wretched draws. Given the strength of the field, there aren't many good draws. But it would take some fairly good play by all of ours to get beyond the 2nd round. Think Mr Edmund can do it, and possibly Mr Bambridge. Beyond that, tough to see ... though one can always hope.

I think that once the qualifiers are placed, it will look better. It won't make the draws easier for those who already know who they are playing, but the overall picture will look better and there will be more potentially winnable matches.

Having said that, ALL matches are winnable - if they aren't, why bother playing !!