Boys: 2022 U18/U16 Junior National Championships, NTC, acrylic (Week 14)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Boys: 2022 U18/U16 Junior National Championships, NTC, acrylic (Week 14)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A decent final - reasonably competitive and not a bad standard overall (although not up there at top international level for the age))

Luca Pow (2005) is our new U18 champion, beating top seed and defending champion, Will Jansen

Well done to him - he has some good qualities - he's good to watch.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Well done Luca, and that is also the double for him. Good stuff

Tennisdad_101 · Lower Club Player

Great result for Luca. Hes now getting consistently very good results. A big improvement in the last 12 month just when it was starting to look as though a couple of younger ones were moving on. Summer cup selection should be a dead cert!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Tennisdad_101 wrote:
Great result for Luca. Hes now getting consistently very good results. A big improvement in the last 12 month just when it was starting to look as though a couple of younger ones were moving on. Summer cup selection should be a dead cert!

How does Luca stack up against those missing this week, Matt Rankin, Patrick Brady?

Tennis_observer · Social player

Will there be live streaming from U16 Qualifiers today?

Tennisdad_101 · Lower Club Player

Not sure hes been tested against them in a while, but hes improved a lot over the last few months so would be very interesting to watch any match up.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Tennis_observer wrote:
Will there be live streaming from U16 Qualifiers today?

Yes you can see qualifiers on courts 3 and 5 at least via the LTA YouTube Channel You can see the schedule on each court here (Mark Ceban is up next after Allegra Korpanec-Davies on court 5, who is close to a win)

Court 3 stream

Court 5 stream

DavidC · Tennis legend

The under 16 main draw is out here with Viktor in the same quarter as second seed Jamie Diack Mark Ceban was well beaten in qualifying, and though he has weapons through his height, which could become major if he continues growing, does have a lot to do to improve his game which breaks down easily.

Tennis_observer · Social player

Can someone explain to me in short terms how the ranking system within the LTA works.
It does not seem to be related really to the relative strength between the boys. Henry Jefferson needed a wildcard to get into the tournament, despite being one of the best U16 boys, as an example.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Qualifiers are now placed in the main draw with Oliver Bonding drawing wildcard Henry Jefferson (the under 16 ranking points table is here (there is a guide to the system here with the current under 16 rankings here )

DavidC · Tennis legend

Schedule of tomorrow's matches is here and I guess the streams and scores will be as per the links from the second post in this thread, or via the LTA YouTube channel

DavidC · Tennis legend

Conor Flynn was the one seed to be knocked out in round 1 leaving the quarter-finals as follows:

U16 QF

(1) Benjamin Gusic Wan v Charlie Robertson
(3) Henry Searle v (Q) Oliver Bonding
Zach Stephens v (Q) Pranav Devaguptapu
(WC) Viktor Frydrych v (2) Jamie Diack

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Charlie had to retire.

Young Oli B put up a good show against Henry

Zach could do with watching his language a bit (and I'm no prude about bad language but......)

U16 SF

(1) Benjamin Gusic Wan (2007) v (3) Henry Searle (2006)
Zach Stephens (2006) v (WC) Viktor Frydrych (2006)

DavidC · Tennis legend

U16 SF

(3) Henry Searle (2006) d. (1) Benjamin Gusic Wan (2007) 6-4 6-3
(WC) Viktor Frydrych (2006) d. Zach Stephens (2006) 7-5 7-6(1)

Doubles F

(1) Diack/Gusic Wan d. Bonding/Mazingham 6-4 7-6(8)