Week 32 - Great Britain F16 ($15,000) - Chiswick (Hard)

Jan · Hall of fame

RE: Week 32 - Great Britain F16 ($15,000) - Chiswick (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

And the hits just keep on coming smile

With Oli and Kyle in Austria and Italy respectively and now Dan here, what a great mornings tennis. Shouldn't forget Liam and JWH in the dubs as well.

Now with one pesky foreigner out of the way, its time for Josh to see off the other one.

Come on !!!!!

paulisi · Tennis legend

Great to see Dan keeping that unbeaten run going.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

With his 15 points (minimum) here, Dan has exactly covered the 15 that comes off the week after next.

And he has absolutely no other points to defend for the rest of the year.

AND he currently has 4 scoring results of only 1 or 2 points.

So there's huge potential over the next four months to clock up extra points and knock those low ones off.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

No points to defend after next week until the end of February. You've got to fancy him to be top 250 within those 6 months now.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes; Bob !

Dan will only have 11 cointers so even before he gets ti replacing bis 1 and 2 pointz he has 7 gaps to fill. He had amassed big points from only 7 counters above 2 pkints.

Now in running level on points as GB no 5 with Ed Corrie, the earlly season futures king. And with nothing more to defend this year the future looks very good.

I amagine he will now look to play Challengers. Be interesting to see if he cam mske progress there and amass more points than say Ed has to date.

indiana · Tennis legend

Or rathet, yes, Coup Droit !

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Yes; Bob !

Dan will only have 11 cointers so even before he gets ti replacing bis 1 and 2 pointz he has 7 gaps to fill. He had amassed big points from only 7 counters above 2 pkints.

Now in running level on points as GB no 5 with Ed Corrie, the earlly season futures king. And with nothing more to defend this year the future looks very good.

I amagine he will now look to play Challengers. Be interesting to see if he cam mske progress there and amass more points than say Ed has to date.

Have you been on the sauce, Indy? wink

indiana · Tennis legend

I am on my mobile which is both harder to type on and I can't correct after I send. AND my eyesight isn't the best !

The message is more important than the typos LOL

HowardDubai · Junior player

So when did we last have 15 players in the top 400, if ever ?

indiana · Tennis legend

Anyway plowing on regardless..

It is great to see how well Dans Evan and Cox have done this yeae and a few others of the often criticised 1990 borns. Yes, LTA, some players do come through later after maybe plateauing for a time. Was it the Dodger that almost dismissed them, talking about time to look to the next generation ?

Of course great to see Kyle doing so eell, with both he and Oli going well this week.

Of the 19 that will be in the top 500 on Monday week 11 were born in 1989 or later. Yes the 6 elder players are more towards the top, but it is encouraging how many other players are hitting the top 500 or close. Some early 20 yos are finally developing with seemingly limited official enciuragement.

Birth years of world top 500 Brits on Monday week :

1995 1
1994 0
1993 1
1992 2
1991 0
1990 6
1989 3
1988 1
1987 2
1986 1
1885 1
1984 1

indiana · Tennis legend

Or even 13 of tbe 19 were born in 1989 or later !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Really interesting, Indiana.

It backs up a huge demographic change in tennis over the last decade or two.

This is the chart I saw last year for the top 10.

Average age of top-10 players

Last 20 years
Year Men Women
2012 27.0 25.1
2002 24.6 22.0
1992 23.2 21.7

Obviously, the top 10 can be a little capricious but the Top 100 and top 50 are remarkably similar - exactly the same trend and very similar absolute figures.

The top 100 for the first half of 2013 is already on the climb again (about 27.3 for men at last check).

Th two most commonly cited factors are the (1) the change in training and recovery methods allowing for major physical improvements and (2) increased prize money (i.e. and incentive)

This article from last year summed up some of the points quite well:

espn.go.com/tennis/usopen12/story/_/id/8311320/us-open-thirty-no-longer-death-sentence-tennis

Equally, the average age now for first entering the top 100 is also over 26 (although this 'think-tank stat' treats a guy who enters, briefly, at age 28 the same as a guy who enters at age 23 and stays there 8 years).

Anyway, I'm sure the LTA (if not Dodger) know this very well - people ignore the up-and-coming 24 year olds at their peril.

indiana · Tennis legend

Of the 9 top 500 Brits born 1989/90, 5 are currently within one place of their CH. And thee 5 do not include Dan Cox who is clearly on the rise again and will go quite a lot higher.

As yiu say, Coup Droit, nowadays certainly about an age some players seem to begin to really come through.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Boy Westerhof (NED) WR 242 defeated (4) Josh Goodall WR 421 by 1 & 3 cry

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Final: (1) Boy Westerhof (NED) WR 242 vs (8) Dan Cox WR 379