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Mark Ceban


Always a bit random with the youngsters as to whose individual player page will still be up in the mix in five years time, and whose will have sunk without trace, but...

Mark Ceban is born 2009, tall and willowy, has just won the U14 Bolton event, and has come on leaps and bounds in the last 12 months, really managing to harness the power of his height, and get more precise in his movement to try and cut down the 'gangly' errors

He's definitely a name to become familiar with, a really interesting prospect

He was part of the Mouratoglou camp in December 2022

https://dunlopsports.com/love-the-game/the-dunlop-junior-camp-at-the-mouratoglou-tennis-academy/

I think he's at Bromley Tennis Centre

Has a nice one-liner on his Tennis First grantee pasge saying his aim in life is:

"To be the best I can be as a tennis player and a human being"

 



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And Mark has gone on to win Les Petits As

That's the (equal) World Championship title (Les Petits As sort of share it jointly with Junior Orange Bowl)

It's the first English player, I believe, to have won the event since 1998

Andy Murray, Laura Robson, Dan Cox and Hannah Klugman have all been runners-up

But only Matt Smith managed to win it (beating Ancic)

Great tournament, Mark.

Great progress in the last year.

Great to watch, and enjoy some really good ball-hitting.

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Coup Droit wrote:

And Mark has gone on to win Les Petits As

That's the (equal) World Championship title (Les Petits As sort of share it jointly with Junior Orange Bowl)

It's the first English player, I believe, to have won the event since 1998

Andy Murray, Laura Robson, Dan Cox and Hannah Klugman have all been runners-up

But only Matt Smith managed to win it (beating Ancic)

Great tournament, Mark.

Great progress in the last year.

Great to watch, and enjoy some really good ball-hitting.


 Ancic was a great talent and I believe works as a big deal in finance now (in london?)

 

and remind me who Matt Smith was ? 



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Ancic got up to ATP 7, I think - great player

Matt Smith made the top-300, I believe, and is now coaching?

Which just shows that - quelle surprise - winning a top-U14 event isn't any guarantee of future top rank playing success (mind you, neither is winning a Grand Slam at junior level - just ask Dan Berta or Mihalikova or Velotti or Cuadrado......)

In the same way that Liam Broady was runner-up to Ed Nguyen, who barely got any ranking, I think, in adults, whereas our Liam is going to crack the top-100 this year (well, maybe......with a prevailing wind)

However, in Mark's favour, some of the winners have become big names, that's for sure



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Coup Droit wrote:

Ancic got up to ATP 7, I think - great player

Matt Smith made the top-300, I believe, and is now coaching?

Which just shows that - quelle surprise - winning a top-U14 event isn't any guarantee of future top rank playing success (mind you, neither is winning a Grand Slam at junior level - just ask Dan Berta or Mihalikova or Velotti or Cuadrado......)

In the same way that Liam Broady was runner-up to Ed Nguyen, who barely got any ranking, I think, in adults, whereas our Liam is going to crack the top-100 this year (well, maybe......with a prevailing wind)

However, in Mark's favour, some of the winners have become big names, that's for sure


 And hes a Yorkshireman as well, good lad 

 

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/matt-smith-huddersfield-yorkshire-tennis-14124263

 

huddersfield club is a big club- not sure if it still has grass but I used to get dragged along each year when my mum and dad played in the annual Huddersfield Open. It used to attract many big names and John Newcombe brought his Texas Academy squad to play most years, back in the late 70s and 80s. Dont think it is played now. 



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Ancic is in New York, not London, in the PE world

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_An%C4%8Di%C4%87

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I am assuming this is the same Matt Smith that was coaching Marcus Willis ?

And as for previous winners not making is, Steven was tweeting about the player who beat Andy Murray in the final but never cracked the top 700 in the ATP rankings.

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It looks as if he is now at the Bromley Tennis Centre. 



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Bob in Spain wrote:

I am assuming this is the same Matt Smith that was coaching Marcus Willis ?

And as for previous winners not making is, Steven was tweeting about the player who beat Andy Murray in the final but never cracked the top 700 in the ATP rankings.


 Good point - you'd get a prize if you could remember "Alexandre KRASNOUTSKI"



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pbs.twimg.com/media/Fntq1iUXwAMlyVk

picture of the winners of the 2023 Petits As

And a good article found by DavidC about Mark's training set-up, which now includes Joe Salisbury's coach (and Jazzi Plews' dad, although he's there as an LTA bod more than a proper coach for Mark)

www.lta.org.uk/news/mark-ceban-becomes-second-brit-to-lift-prestigious-les-petit-as-singles-title/

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Bob in Spain wrote:

I am assuming this is the same Matt Smith that was coaching Marcus Willis ?

And as for previous winners not making is, Steven was tweeting about the player who beat Andy Murray in the final but never cracked the top 700 in the ATP rankings.


It is - career high 295 in 2006, I've been following the Brits closely for just about long enough to remember him as an up-and-coming player who seemed destined to go higher.



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Mark Ceban (born 2009) got his first ITF juniors win today

At the J100 in Loughborough

And I think it's his 14th birthday today too



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Coup Droit wrote:

Mark Ceban (born 2009) got his first ITF juniors win today

At the J100 in Loughborough

And I think it's his 14th birthday today too


 Excellent, having been fairly dominant on the U14 circuit I was wondering when he was going to play some ITF again. Looking forward to seeing  how he does. 



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Well done, Mark

20/03/23

ITF JWR 1806 - Mark Ceban

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Coup Droit wrote:

Well done, Mark

20/03/23

ITF JWR 1806 - Mark Ceban


 



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