Could do with a few more boys getting ATP singles rankings.

Looking at all this from the other angle of course. Professional tennis players are competing well into their 30's now and nearly 40 which is great to see.
Gone are the days when you need to have it all at 14/15 and be world #1 at 18.
As long as our juniors are progressing well and enjoying what they do is the main thing.

25/07/22
Will Jansen is continuing his good show on grass - his game suits it and it's the second year in a row that he's come into his own in the grass season

Having made R2 at the 25k at Roehampton last week, he is now:

1549 (+327) William Jansen (age 17, born 2004) (CH)

And also won his QR1 match yesterday at Nottingham

Also, welcome to Lui Maxted (2004) to the doubles rankings - having made the semis at Roehampton (with Finn Murgett), he's come in at ATP 1453


In the girls, a little shout to Jasmine (2004) for having now got into the top-700 (+4 to WTA 697)

And to Kristina Paskauskas (2004) - up 48 to WTA 1460, thanks to an extra point for having made the main draw of Roehampton

Followed by another

L16: (Q) Patrick Brady UNR defeated (WC) Toby Samuel WR 703 by 5 & 3


Jasmine Conway also got a R1 win at the 25k in Foxhills, before losing in two tie-breaks.

And Matilda got a nice win too

R1: MUTAVDZIC, Matilda (GBR) (7) 387 def MATSUDA, Misaki (JPN) 453 6-3 5-7 6-2

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 3rd of August 2022 07:37:48 PM

In the women's 25k at Aldershot this week, we had QR1 wins for juniors Jess Matthews and Imogen Haddad

Fran Davis and Talia N-Gatenby went one step further and qualified for the main draw, where Talia also won her R1 match

In the doubles, Jess got a R1 win

And Ranah made it to the semi-finals before losing out


In the 15k in Belgium, Matilda M won two rounds and lost in the QFs


In the men's 25k in Aldershot,

Louis Bowden won two quali matches and made it into the main draw

Patrick Brady got a R1 main draw win, both in singles and doubles

All still going in the positive direction for the girls, with a nice jump up for Talia, in particular

12/09/22

Junior girls with WTA singles rankings

375 - Matilda M (2004)
643 - Talia N-G (2005)
655 - Jasmine (2004)
937 - Ranah Stoiber (2005)
1086 - Mimi (2007)
1127 - Isabelle Lacy (2006)
1408 - Kristina Paskauskas (2004)

04/10/22

There's been some good junior play so far this week

Boys:

25k Sheffield

Patrick Brady (2004) chalked up a corker of a win over Folliot (FRA), WR 541 - and in style - 6-0 6-0

Freddy Blaydes (2005) also got a win in qualis, over WR 1119, Valsecchi (FRA)

Both of them also got wins in the doubles main draw (not together)


Girls:

15k Egypt

Talia (2006) won her R1

As did Ranah and Ella.

Ranah then won her R2. But despite two MPs, lost out in the QFs.

Talia and Ranah won R1 dubs


15k France

Kristina Paskauskas (2004) won her R1 in doubles and has qualified for the MD in singles

15k Spain

Aryana Bartlett (2005) has won two quali rounds to make the main draw


Jasmine Conway (2004) also had a very good week last week, making the semis of the 15k in Sharm (having made the QF the week before that)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 7th of October 2022 08:22:41 PM