Great to hear! I agree and his form extrapolating from those on the full time tour around him is consistent with that.

Looking at the way players transition, young players with the game/potential game to progress tend to dominate one tier of professional tennis for 3 months or so having developed the consistency in their game to progress beyond the cohort of players at that level.

Cam had a great year in college tennis, the highlight for me however was his win in Mansfield where he beat Liam and Michael Mmoh and in his next ITF Stephan Kozlov, all players going through that process and getting week on week futures play. Stephan is on the cusp of his first transition winning consecutive futures tournaments (he is in another final in LA this weekend) and progressing at challenger level.

I did stick my head in to have a brief look at the facilities at TCU while in Dallas on bussiness (on the way to a trip round the Cowboys stadium and catching the rangers play the Angels, not a bad day) and while not quite coming upto Mr Jones monument to Americas team they are pretty impressive and have served him very well this year. Hopefully with the high quality freshman they have recruited Cam will get the opportunity to play and win a string of futures tournaments bringing him to a competitive level on the challenger tour where the costs of travel and winnings come closer to parity.

I don't know exactly what the attitude of the elite schools are to this but to loose players to the professional game must surely be the objective of the best programmes and is generally accepted particularly in basketball and to a lesser extent in football (Christian McCaffrey will still be playing college football next season so Emily will literally be rubbing shoulders with a future sporting superstar next season).

In sports where it is the stepping stone to the professional game it is the currency that the colleges use in their recruitment (Stanford being the exception, posting a letter reminding student athletes how much more money a The generic average Stanford graduate makes over all the other NCAA div 1 colleges). It would be great to see this become the norm in tennis too.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Sunday 10th of January 2016 05:54:53 AM

They have done a great job with Cam you must be very pleased, it is a two way street in that they are also lucky to have him. Having spent a couple of years working at a US College it is always interesting to take a peek, and the history and ethos of TCU is fascinating, very different to the UK university experience. It looks like Cams freshman year has set him and the TCU team up nicely for 2016. Good luck to them all.

Aljaz had 5 MPs in all, including an initial 3 at 6-3*, in a second set TB, but Querrey took his third SP of the TB.

7-6(5) 6-7(10)

Been one break of serve apiece ( in the first set ) so far.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 12th of January 2016 07:01:49 AM

Do we presume it's raining in Auckland? Jonny and Aisam have disappeared off the schedule and no result either?

Thanks Indy. It's showing on tomorrow's schedule now 😀

Ditto. Am so impressed with Mr Bedene; do hope he recovers quickly from whatever caused the retirement.

yes it rained here in Auckland from about midday till about 5pm , hence the schedule changes, beaut of a day today Wednesday. There was no announcement in the local press that I could find as to why AB retired. Some wonderful matches last night as an aside the Fognini vs Sousa was a thriller and Mr Bautista Agut is mister consistency.