Boys & Girls: 2016 Australian Open, hard - Grade A (Week 4)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: 2016 Australian Open, hard - Grade A (Week 4)

wolf · Tennis legend

Even all the junior matches are being streamed.

john · Top national player

Where? Jay's match is tonight and I can't find a stream for court 15 anywhere so far

wolf · Tennis legend

It's on Eurosport Player but your right it doesn't seem to be on the pirated streams.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Disappointing result.
Jay has picked up a lot of points at grade 2, time will tell if he has a false ranking or can actually step up to this level.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That's a shame.

(Jay lost 6-4 3-6- 6-4)

But it backs up what several of us were saying - that he has a very good game but he didn't suddenly become a better player, just because he won those two events in Egypt (when the best youngsters were over at the US Open) - the LTA had a point - the ranking system is vulnerable to a sudden win or two.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Jay partners Miomir again. Ewan and Ema are first up tonight

Boys Doubles R1 (L32)

(3) Clarke/Kecmanovic (GBR/SRB) v (WC) Bouzige/Pearson (AUS)
Moore/Piros (GBR/HUN) v De Minaur/Ellis (AUS)

Girls Doubles R1 (L32)

Bucsa/Guerrero Alvarez (ESP) v Lazic/Rybakina (GBR/RUS)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good luck to Ema - saw her play at Shrewsbury, good player,(chatting to her Dad for a long time that day) but will be one to watch for the French.

DF · Tennis legend

Rain?

BradMarx90 · County player

All three Brits defeated. Ewan lost 4&2 while Ema lost 4&3.

indiana · Tennis legend

In the doubles :

R1: (3) Clarke/Kecmanovic (GBR/SRB) lost to (WC) Bouzige/Pearson (AUS/AUS) 1-6 7-6(4) [17-15] - Jay+ had 2 MPs in the MTB and saved 5 MPs but not a 6th.

R1: Moore/Piros (GBR/HUN) lost to De Minaur/Ellis (AUS/AUS) 6-3 6-3

Ema & Rybakina play their R1 doubles tomorrow in the one remaining chance of a GBR win.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 24th of January 2016 09:12:19 AM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Ema lost her doubles meaning the trip to Aus for the three of them was a total disaster.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, an utter washout.

Thrilled for our Aussie counterparts, though, who are having a real party down there.

They have three boys through to the last 8, including two unseeded lads who are only there thanks to wildcards.

And in the girls, Sara Tomic is making waves (as that family often does

). Again, through to the last 8, having come through qualifiers (no wildcard from the Federation for her!).

And young Lin, born 2000, is another Aussie wildcard who is now in the quarters.

Well done them, and the Federation. (And the others too, of course

)

wimdledont · Challenger level

I think that Katie Swan has taken some very bad advice not to compete at this tournament.

According to her twitter, she's currently doing serving practice with Heather in an empty hall in Roehampton. She's next due to spend a week bench-warming with a probably demoralised Laura, followed by some UK 10ks, where she will eat into her ration of allowable senior competitions, in return for very few WTA points on offer. If she wins two ITF10k tournaments, her WTA ranking will go from around 520 to around 420; which will make not the slightest difference.

It was all very well for Bencic to turn her back on Junior competition, because she was utterly dominant, and IIRC, about 500 ranking points clear of the second placed girl.

Though we were promised an exciting announcement from Katie's camp, I haven't seen one; and I cannot conceive of anything that she could possibly be doing with Jeremy Bates that would do her more good in the long run than spending this week playing high-pressure tennis matches, with tennis balls, on a tennis court, against her peers. If she's being told she's better off in the gym, I can only hope she's learning Spanish, so she can listen to some sensible advice.

Further, had she competed in Melbourne, and again reached the final, she would be very likely to have finished this week, and then spent several months as JR1; increasing still further her international profile, and commercial worth to sponsors, etc.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Given that Miss Swan has for some considerable time had the majority of her tennis expenses covered by the LTA, I would say she has an obligation to work with the Fed Cup team when required. And given that very generous and likely ongoing funding, the need for commercial sponsors is not great at this time. Many successful senior players have had high ITF rankings but have not been number one. Plenty have been number one and never made real inroads into the senior game. IMO it is nice but an irrelevance. A training block with a player of Heather's standard is bound to yield dividends further down the line, even if the benefits are not as immediately obvious as junior ITF points.