Finn Bass is top seed for this G4 and draws Jeremy Gschwendtner with his former under 14 partner Max Stewart a potential round 2 opponent. Wimbledon qualifier Charles Broom is seeded 2. Full draw at http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100034025
-- Edited by DavidC on Monday 13th of July 2015 06:15:57 PM
With 2 matches (involving Finn and Jack Molloy unfinished yesterday) all the other seeds survived round 1. Jack Draper earns a second round match against his elder brother Ben
Max was able to get the better of Finn, albeit with the match ending prematurely as Finn retired at 5-1 in the final set, while Ben won the Draper contest fairly easily, to take on the one foreign interloper
QF
Max Stewart v Dominic West
(4) Joshua Peck (CAN) v (5) Ben Draper
(8) Barnaby Smith v (3) Jack Molloy
(6) Alastair Gray v (2) Charles Broom
Guaranteed British success in the doubles but Joshua remains in the singles
QF
Max Stewart d. Dominic West 6-2 6-1
(4) Joshua Peck (CAN) d. (5) Ben Draper 6-4 6-7(2) 6-3
(3) Jack Molloy d. (8) Barnaby Smith 7-6(6) 6-3
(2) Charles Broom d. (6) Alastair Gray w/o
SF
Max Stewart v (4) Joshua Peck (CAN)
(3) Jack Molloy v (2) Charles Broom
Is Max the guy that has been much touted as our next big hope?
Yes in some quarters - see for example http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t55901170/boys-girls-nike-junior-tennis-international-masters-usa-u12u/ for an appreciation of him as a top under 14. Max only returned fully from a lengthy back problem in May (which kept him sidelined since October, bar one match at Easter), and this is the first tournament since then when he has got the sort of results we would have expected a year ago.
