Week 29 - ITF W15 - Caloundra, Australia Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 29 - ITF W15 - Caloundra, Australia Hard

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Australia in July is interesting - whereabouts is this place, presumably Queensland somewhere ?

Lambda · Challenger level

New name to me... So here's a video from 2020 by the Australia Sports Foundation introducing her
https://www.facebook.com/tennisact/videos/meet-wambui-taylor/249162576173755/

And a long article
https://asf.org.au/inspiring-story/wambui-taylor

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great stuff, Lambda

Did you manage to work out how old she is? Is the article from 2020, hence 13 then and about 15 now?

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Australia in July is interesting - whereabouts is this place, presumably Queensland somewhere ?

About 50 miles north of Brisbane, on the Queensland Coast.

(Link to google maps on the ITF webpage for the tournament)

DF · Tennis legend

Peter too wrote:
Q1: TAYLOR, Wambui (GBR) UNR/UNR =CH v FREEMAN, Piper (AUS) UNR/UNR =CH {17yo JCH=1026}

Wambui won 6-1 7-6

emmsie69 · Top national player

Interesting that she is still showing as British when it appears she has had financial support from Australia.

dodrade · Futures qualifying

emmsie69 wrote:
Interesting that she is still showing as British when it appears she has had financial support from Australia.

Any backing from the LTA?

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: TAYLOR, Wambui (GBR) UNR/UNR def FREEMAN, Piper (AUS) UNR/UNR 6-1 7-6(6)

Q2: TAYLOR, Wambui (GBR) UNR/UNR =CH lost to FRASSER KAWARATANI, Thamara (AUS) UNR/UNR =CH {17yo JCH=UNR} 5-7 3-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
Interesting that she is still showing as British when it appears she has had financial support from Australia.

Yes. And there was no mention of any GB connection in the article. And there's no ITF sheet.

It's well possible that it's just a mistake and she's Australian - the ITF's flag thingy has been known to be wrong before

But as long as she's possibly GB, then go, Wambui !

(And even if she's Australian, all the best too smile )

emmsie69 · Top national player

Coup Droit wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
Interesting that she is still showing as British when it appears she has had financial support from Australia.
Yes. And there was no mention of any GB connection in the article. And there's no ITF sheet.
It's well possible that it's just a mistake and she's Australian - the ITF's flag thingy has been known to be wrong before
But as long as she's possibly GB, then go, Wambui !

(And even if she's Australian, all the best too )

I think she has lived in the UK, she sounds British

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Some of the live scores systems show her as UK also but that might just be a feed from ITF?

It looks like she is from an indigenous background and Canberra, hard to see what British links she might have?

asf.org.au/inspiring-story/wambui-taylor

Christine · Intermediate Club Player

JonH comes home wrote:
Some of the live scores systems show her as UK also but that might just be a feed from ITF?

It looks like she is from an indigenous background and Canberra, hard to see what British links she might have?

asf.org.au/inspiring-story/wambui-taylor

Could be father's family?

Peter too · Tennis legend

She is entered into next week's Australian event as British. It seems unlikely that the Australian organisations would repeat a mistake in nationality of someone apparently based in Australia so I suspect the GBR designation is genuine. There isn't an Australian event on the following week so we will have to wait and see if she travels to other events in August.