Boys: 2017 Wimbledon Juniors, grass - Grade A (Week 28)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys: 2017 Wimbledon Juniors, grass - Grade A (Week 28)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Hamish backed up his win over the top seed last week, coming from behind to win today

(WC) Hamish Stewart d. Tomas Machac (CZE) 4-6 7-5 6-1
(WC) Aidan McHugh d. Gianni Ross (USA) 6-2 2-6 6-4
(2) Yibing Wu (CHN) d. (WC) Jack Draper 6-3 6-2

DavidC · Tennis legend

Doubles R1 (L32)

Korda/Mejia (USA/COL) v (WC) Molloy/Smith
(3) Rodionov/Vrbensky (AUT/CZE) v (WC) Draper/Loffhagen
(8) Baez/Grassi Mazzuchi (ARG) v (WC) Bass/McHugh
(6) Ayeni/Bryde (USA) v (WC) Matusevich / M.Stewart

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, so far it's certainly: Tennis Scotland 2 Rest of the country 0

With nice photos of the two Scottish winners in action, first Hamish then Aidan:

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DavidC · Tennis legend

The Monday matches are again on courts 5/6 so may well be streamed. Match of the round arguably saw one of the players we have featured quite often in this section, Timofey Skatov, knock out third seed Zxombor Piros (Australian Open champion and ATP 902) in straight sets.

Article about Aidan and Andy Murray at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/08/british-junior-aidan-mchugh-helped-reigning-champion-andy-murray/

(WC) Max Stewart v Naoki Tajima (JPN) Court 6 match 2
(WC) George Loffhagen v Juan Alejandro Hernandez Serrano (MEX) Court 5 match 4
Constantin Bittoun Kouzmine (FRA) v (WC) Anton Matusevich Court 6 match 3
(Q) Thomas Bosancic (AUS) v (WC) Barnaby Smith Court 6 match 5

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Well obviously many happy "returns" from Aidan 17 today!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I like the fact that Co Moutet, the number one seed, who was knocked out by Hamish at Roehampton, has got the call up to hit balls with Djoko on the basis that he's left-handed and French, and so good practice for his upcoming match against Mannarino

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Hope they hav some ball boys to get the balls back could be very useful if Mannarin gets stroppy!!

indiana · Tennis legend

Barnaby has got back to one set apiece, 5-7 6-4

George is a set up and has broken at the start of the second set, 6-3 *1-0

Earlier today defeats for Max by 6-4 6-4 and for Anton by 6-3 3-0 retired.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Joy later on as both George and Barnaby recorded victories

DavidC · Tennis legend

Glad George got the win in the end. I joined his match briefly at 4*-1 in the second set and a combination of missed opportunities, untimely doubles and good play from his opponent let the set slip away, so it would have been hard for him to take had he not rebounded in the second. His reward is a crack at the strong German some of us saw play Jack Draper in Berlin. Hamish appears to have the best chance of further progress against the qualifier who accounted for Jack Molloy

R1 (L64)

Naoki Tajima (JPN) d. (WC) Max Stewart 6-4 6-4
(WC) George Loffhagen d. Juan Alejandro Hernandez Serrano (MEX) 6-3 4-6 6-2
Constantin Bittoun Kouzmine (FRA) d. (WC) Anton Matusevich 6-3 3-0 rtd
(WC) Barnaby Smith d. (Q) Thomas Bosancic (AUS) 5-7 6-4 6-3

R2

(WC) Hamish Stewart v (Q) Francesco Forti (ITA)
(WC) Aidan McHugh v (6) Marko Miladinovic (SRB)
(WC) George Loffhagen v (9) Rudolf Molleker (GER)
(WC) Barnaby Smith v (10) Oliver Crawford (USA)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Anton's injury unfortunately has caused him to pull out of doubles with Max. Rewinding the stream of his singles match I see that he called the trainer at the change of ends at 0-3 down and decided after treatment that he couldn't continue

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

So pleased for Barnaby and George - they were the two who came within a whisker of winning great matches at the Nike G1 event, but ended up losing.
Lovely to see a reversal today. And that'll take George up another 15 places or so in the junior rankings, to about 158 or so.

NB There are two 'holes' in the doubles draw now (one obviously for Anton/Max). Will there be ALTs who get put in to plug the gaps?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Just for comparison, last year (2016) we had:

Lost in R1: (wc) Alexis Canter, (wc) Max Stewart, (wc) Aidan McHugh (wc) Ali Gray

Lost in R2: (wc) Ben Draper, Jay Clarke, (wc) Luke Hammond, (wc) Finn Bass, Ryan Storrie, (wc) Ewan Moore

It's hardly relevant, given how they players evolve differently after moving to adult tennis, but to compare it to last year you could say that we are already doing worse in that we have only 4 boys through to R2 rather than 6.

However, if one of the four were to win their next match it would probably count as more successful.

And, depending how you look at things, a positive note could be:

2016: wins for: 5 x 'last year in juniors', 1 x 'one year to go in juniors'

2017: wins for: 2 x 'last year in juniors', 1 x 'one year to go in juniors', and 1 x 'two years to go in juniors'.

skibbarriz · Strong Club Player

Fantastic start from McHugh against the no.6 seed. He's been hitting some forehands that look out of this world. Up 4-0.

-- Edited by skibbarriz on Tuesday 11th of July 2017 12:56:15 PM

-- Edited by skibbarriz on Tuesday 11th of July 2017 02:20:09 PM