Blu Baker

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Blu Baker

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

THere was an article about Blu in the Telegraph (no pay-wall) about 6 months ago:

www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/young-british-players/blu-baker-2019-season-review/

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I was wondering where Blu had got to...... and I note that Blu played a lot of US exhibition tennis matches over the covid-19 summer.

Can't remember if they were reported or not so here's a link for anyone who wants to see them:

https://scores24.live/en/tennis/p-blu-baker-1

Guess it's not all that easy for him to travel, if he's based in the US.

But I'm slightly surprised not to have seen him in ITF events this autumn

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As part of our 'also-ran' cohort of 2001, Blu already has his own thread (of which I'm sure he's very proud

), so worth noting here that he seems to be on a bit of better run of form of late (and is also playing ITFs)

Made the quarters last week. Beating the top seed. Won his R1 match today. Nothing out of this world. But good to see - the possibility of a good base for moving on.....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

There was a long, rather rambling article a few months ago from Blu, in the Portsmouth News

www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/other-sport/i-never-felt-right-in-the-uk-florida-is-where-i-think-im-going-to-achieve-my-dream-portsmouth-born-tennis-player-blu-baker-3159611

Strongbow · All-time great

Good luck to "Dueling banjos" - nice to see him playing again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFutge4xn3w

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Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
As part of our 'also-ran' cohort of 2001, Blu already has his own thread (of which I'm sure he's very proud ), so worth noting here that he seems to be on a bit of better run of form of late (and is also playing ITFs)

Made the quarters last week. Beating the top seed. Won his R1 match today. Nothing out of this world. But good to see - the possibility of a good base for moving on.....

To bring this up to date, Blu has indeed carried on a solid upward trajectory over the last few months - made the semis in a 15k in Florida, made the QFs in a 25k there, and various other wins, that really seem to represent consistent form at a higher level, as confirmed by livestream.

Age 20, he's now cracked the top 1000 in style, currently 868.

And last week he won his first title, the doubles 15k title in Florida, with Jesse Witten

Aberdaberdonian · Club Coach

Whatever he's doing (moving to the US?? as per the article) is certainly working - although admittedly last year wasn't exactly a "typical" year. And with him into the 2nd round (at the very least) of this week's tournament, there is more points coming his way.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Not seen any news on Blu for a while, is he back in college or did what looked like a promising set of results in ITF events stall?

Lambda · Challenger level

After some digging, he seems to only play Battle of Boca, a low level weekly UTR event in Florida, which he has won more times than any other male.

He apparently played Rachel Gailis (top 10 college player) in a "Battle of the Sexes" at the event last month. No idea of the result though.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
After some digging, he seems to only play Battle of Boca, a low level weekly UTR event in Florida, which he has won more times than any other male.

He apparently played Rachel Gailis (top 10 college player) in a "Battle of the Sexes" at the event last month. No idea of the result though.

Thanks Lambda - he seemed to make some rankings progress last year, then stalled a little, hope hes not given up just yet. For his name alone.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Looking at the ITF-entries.netlify.app site it looks like he entered two M15s in the states this week and next but withdrew on 2nd September. So looks like there might be an intention to get back. He was entered with a ranking of 760 so I assume he has a protected ranking and therefore must have had an injury.