Youth Watch - ATP Rankings

Drew · May 1, 2006

Youth Watch - ATP Rankings

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Nice idea, Drew. I have been keeping half an eye on the lower rankings but have never checked how old they were!

Drew · May 1, 2006

Madeline wrote:

Nice idea, Drew. I have been keeping half an eye on the lower rankings but have never checked how old they were!

Yes so have I so..... I thought an age check would be helpful....its amazing how many twenty-somethings have ATP points.....

Can we really expect 22 or 23 yrs olds ranked 1000 ish to break through into the top 100 ? Dont think so....!

Sheddie · administrator

Great idea Drew

After today's victory 16 year old Sean Thornley might be one to add to the list. He beat Dan Cox two weeks ago when reaching the final of a grade 5 junior tournament in Sutton before losing to Dan Evans in 3 sets.

Cheshire's Scott Dickson is our no 1 U18 player [doesn't have a wr point though].

Ian Atkinson doesn't have a ranking point but he's our no 2 U18

Ed Corrie is another 18 year old with a lot of promise. He beat Fleming in straights in Cardiff qualies and nearly qualified for this tournament, taking a top 400 player to 3 sets in the final qualies round.

Ed Seator [19] and Kostantinos Kalaitzis [18] are friends of Slabba and train at Sutton academy. Both have wr points but have yet to show any real promise so far this year.

Harry Skinner and Chris Llewellyn [both 17] have had some good wins in futures qualies and are our no 3 and no 4 U18s.

By the way, Dan Evans has maintained his position as the no 1 U16 in Europe.
Jessica Ren is the 8th best U14 female in Europe.

Robxon · Lower Club Player

As usual SteveG has a lot of raw data, he has an Excel database of all registered players with their birthdays at http://stevegtennis.com/data/playerdb.xls. This is 1.64 Mb. A zipped version is also available.

I usually find this is the easiest place to find the age of British players rather than the ITF or ATP sites as you can access them all on the same page.

Sheddie · administrator

Maybe we ought to include James Ward. He's only 18 and has a world ranking point and has had some promising performances recently. He trains at one of the Spanish academies.

His wr is 1413.

Drew · May 3, 2006

Will update main post with suggestions above later ...

Sheddie · administrator

Just boosting this thread, it had sunk down into the depths of page 2 of this section.

Drew · May 22, 2006

UltimateSlabbaFan wrote:

Just boosting this thread, it had sunk down into the depths of page 2 of this section.

I will do an update....made it sticky for the time being