Coup Droit wrote:

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Spectator wrote:

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And like Young, Rubin is from outside the USTA system. It's not just in England, then ...

Seem like good eggs - like the way they were so encouraging of each other after the match. Would agree with TMH that it's hard to evaluate where Mr Kozlov will go in two or three years' time. Interesting that Mr Rubin's going to university - is he the first junior GS singles winner to do so?

Still think this was an odd year: can't think of a year where so many of the best eligible players (Zverev, Garin, Coric, Kokkinakis, Khachanov) didn't play.

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Yes. Quite a few of the girls didn't go either. Fiona Ferro said how glad she was with her decision not to go - but then, she did make the final of the 25k in Denain that week, and took the winner to three sets, so you can see her point.

But, then, Rubin had only played one other junior event the whole season - the French Open. So just the two grand slams as his only junior events. (Junior tennis among 17 and 18 year-olds is a strange sport and not that representative of what's really going on).

That's why Rubin had to qualify. Frankly, Marcus Walters' loss of 6-3 7-6(4) to Rubin in the qualifiers looks ultra respectable when you think Rubin breezed through qualis and went on to win the actual title.

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 Also adds you your point about French juniors playing a lot more senior events at 16 than Brits do. Clearly the American's have the same idea.