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Week 10 - ITF M15 - Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt (hard)


QR1:  Jack Gibbens WR 1465 (CH = 1437 last November) vs (q12) Lukas Krainer (AUT) WR 1154 (CH = 1092 in December 2019)

QR1:  Pavle Daljev (SRB) WR 1628 (CH = 1291 in September 2019) vs Ben Jones WR 1445 (CH = 1292 in August 2019)

QR1:  Lorenzo Bresciani (ITA) UNR vs (qWC) Amil Dodds UNR

QR1:  Daniel Little WR 1518 (CH = 1440 in February last year) vs Ren Nakamura (JPN) WR 1621 (CH = 1229 in July 2015)

QR1:  (q8) George Loffhagen WR 956 (CH = 687 in December 2018) vs (qWC) Leonardo Malgaroli (ITA) UNR



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 8th of March 2021 09:19:01 AM

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QR1:  (q12) Lukas Krainer (AUT) WR 1154 defeated Jack Gibbens WR 1465 by 4 & 3



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QR1:  Pavle Daljev (SRB) WR 1628 defeated Ben Jones WR 1445 by 7-6(4) 4-6 [10-2]  cry

QR1:  Lorenzo Bresciani (ITA) UNR defeated (qWC) Amil Dodds UNR by 0 & 1

QR1:  Daniel Little WR 1518 defeated Ren Nakamura (JPN) WR 1621 by 4 & 4

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QR2:  Daniel Little WR 1518 vs (q9) Niels Visker (NED) WR 986 (CH = 971 last December)



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QR1:  (qWC) Leonardo Malgaroli (ITA) UNR defeated (q8) George Loffhagen WR 956 by 1-6 6-4 [10-8]  bleh



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 8th of March 2021 09:19:19 AM

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Seriously ?!?!?

Malgaroli (it's with an 'l', not an 'i') is a decent junior, ranked about JWT 50, but no more.

He lost to Felix Gill in the first round of Roland Garros this year.

Italy might have an excellent stable of youngsters but George - what are you doing????

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Frankly I'm considering stopping following tennis at this level because I'm finding it depressing and demoralising. Much has been touted about the likes of Loffhagen and Draper but heavy defeats to players with 4 digit rankings, or closer losses to unranked players do not a bright future in the sport suggest. Think I'm just going to stick to the ATPs. At least Evo and Cam occasionally give us something to cheer. Maybe Jubb might join them up there one day.



-- Edited by Priesty on Monday 8th of March 2021 02:54:36 PM

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QR2: Daniel Little WR 1518 lost to (q9) Niels Visker (NED) WR 986 4-6 4-6

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18 year-old Ali Habib has got a wildcard into the MD

But has drawn the 3rd seed  cry



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I certainly think it might be worth your time taking occasional note of what Jack Draper does for one. Still relatively early in his journey ( and it can prove good to have fairly fully followed a player's journey ) and hopefully just a difficult peroid at still age 19 ( covid is an awkward time for most, niggles on top don't help ) . For now, even without pushing on lately, he is still in the top 10 under 20 yo rankings, for whatever that really matters at his age. Let's hope anyway we are all watching him on the ATP tour in years to come.

Now George does concern me more. He's not reached close to Jack's best levels and isn't looking likely to. But again these are unusual times.

But hey we consume this sport as best satisfies each of us. Just saying re particularly Jack. 



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I think it has been difficult for so many players to develop over the last 12 months. Lack of practice time and lack of competitive action was always going to be a problem. I will reserve judgment for another 12 months at least.

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Coup Droit wrote:

18 year-old Ali Habib has got a wildcard into the MD

But has drawn the 3rd seed  cry


Just for the record:

L32:  (WC) Ali Habib UNR vs (3) Shintaro Imai (JPN) WR 334 (CH = 290 in January 2020)  bleh



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Bob in Spain wrote:

I think it has been difficult for so many players to develop over the last 12 months. Lack of practice time and lack of competitive action was always going to be a problem. I will reserve judgment for another 12 months at least.


 Maybe but Holger Rune has managed to barge his way up the rankings at 17 years old but then he actually plays in tournaments rather than play at them,



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Bob in Spain wrote:

I think it has been difficult for so many players to develop over the last 12 months. Lack of practice time and lack of competitive action was always going to be a problem. I will reserve judgment for another 12 months at least.


 Maybe but Holger Rune has managed to barge his way up the rankings at 17 years old but then he actually plays in tournaments rather than play at them,


 I actually like Holger Rune, despite (or because of?) remembering well watching his match that he lost to Anton Mat at the last junior Wimbly, where Rune behaved pretty badly and was SO pee-ed off that Anton was daring to beat the great him, and threw quite an am-dram performance. It was quite amusing  

And I always watch his results 

But I think it's dangerous to pick one guy and say, look, he's done well, by doing x and y, why haven't out guys? Because you've got to look at all the others (in a similar position) who've done well or not done well (and then look at them in 5 years time - or look back at those from 5 years ago i.e. same thing). There's a huge variety. Taking one example doesn't really lead to a general conclusion.



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Too many of our players just dip in and out of tournaments. The reason I used Holger as an example is that he has been solidly playing tournaments for months, not didling around putting the odd toe in, withdrawing, retiring injured etc. On the Brit side Stuart, Billy, Liam and to an extent Ryan are good examples of the benefit of playing a run of tournaments. Endlessly training is pointless literally and metaphorically.

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and that work ethic as well shows in our top guys - Dan, Cam all play consistently, the doubles guys also you see regularly out there and playing tournies where they can. You need to play events to get better at playing events, winning, playing better level events etc etc.

but if you get the chance for a 2 week training block with Federer as Dan has just had (up to 3 hours a day) you take it, even if you then end up playing your training partner in the next event!

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