I remember you waxing lyrical on the board at the time, however he is up against the Candian prodigy of prodigies and my favorite typo Denis Shapoverlove who apart from sounding like a James Bond baddy (likely to be dueling with Kyle over the next decade) also has his junior ranking suppressed by holding his own on the Challenger tour.

Becoming a phenom over the last few years has become a whole lot tougher and I feel we are about to enter a decade where one or two teenagers a year are going to make their presence felt in the top 100, where as top 200 has been the bench mark for the last 10 years.
Perhaps a marker of understanding optimization of performance in adults translating down to a better understanding of transition. Slightly disappointed that the phenom that CD mentioned hasn't emerged as yet, young Napolean (but if I remember he's 10 speaks 4 languages and has a cure for dementia in the pipeline, more power to his elbow!!!)

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I'm not sure if there's a separate thread, but I can't find it; so...........
HUGE congrats to Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett who won the wheelchair doubles!
What a brilliant (if rather tense!) match.

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 Gordon Reid follows up by taking the singles title as well (I believe it is the first time they have played wheelchair singles at Wimbledon) beating Stefan Olsson 6-1 6-4.

Also Greg Rusedski partnered by Fabrice Santaro won the Gentleman's Invitational Doubles.

So far Brits who made the finals are 3 from 3.

 

RJA wrote:

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Jan wrote:

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I'm not sure if there's a separate thread, but I can't find it; so...........
HUGE congrats to Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett who won the wheelchair doubles!
What a brilliant (if rather tense!) match.

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 Gordon Reid follows up by taking the singles title as well (I believe it is the first time they have played wheelchair singles at Wimbledon) beating Stefan Olsson 6-1 6-4.

Also Greg Rusedski partnered by Fabrice Santaro won the Gentleman's Invitational Doubles.

So far Brits who made the finals are 3 from 3.

 

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And Jordanne Whiley, partnered by Yui Kamiji in the Ladies Wheelchair Doubles make it 4 from 4 with a 6-2, 6-2 win.

More importantly, at least to me, Andy is off to a great start and leads *4-3

Despite missing several chances to break throughout the set, Andy turns on the style in the tie-break to take a 6-4, 7-6(3) lead.

C'mon.

Game, set & Championship!  Andy's a double Wimbledon (without dropping his service once in the final)!

Final:  (2) Andy Murray WR 2 defeated (6) Milos Raonic (CAN) WR 7 by 6-4 7-6(3) 7-6(2)      

Let's hope his victory inspires Hev (& Henri) to one, too. 

Fantastic from Andy. He was so clinical at key moments. I am running out of superlatives for him.

And I think Shhh and son will have had an awesome (or should I say magical) day.