Week 10 - ITF W40 - Bengaluru, India Hard

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Week 10 - ITF W40 - Bengaluru, India Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
The Fruhvirtova sisters and Linda Noskova will be the 3 most likely to dominate the womens game in the coming years. Ive seen the sisters in particular and for their age they are frighteningly composed and powerful players.

Yes. But it's crazy how many other youngsters they have in the girls who are really promising prospects

Nine girls in the top-100 juniors

Of which two are 2008-ers

And eight 15-18 year olds in the top-400 WTA

Sort of does your head in.....

indiana · Tennis legend

It will be very interesting.

I wouldn't like to make any call at these still very young ages. Jaggy though goes where others fear to tread

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes. Though Jaggy has chosen the clear stand-out top three at the moment which, if I were being a bit churlish, I'd say is not really going out on a limb. He may well be right but he's in the pack.
But, yes, I'm sure the Czech federation is sitting pretty there, thinking we don't care, one of them might get injured, Linda F might fizzle (I was expecting better when she played Emma last time), but it really doesn't matter, overhwleming chance that one of the others will come through instead.

HarryGem · Club Coach

Coup Droit wrote:
Yes. Though Jaggy has chosen the clear stand-out top three at the moment which, if I were being a bit churlish, I'd say is not really going out on a limb. He may well be right but he's in the pack.
But, yes, I'm sure the Czech federation is sitting pretty there, thinking we don't care, one of them might get injured, Linda F might fizzle (I was expecting better when she played Emma last time), but it really doesn't matter, overhwleming chance that one of the others will come through instead.

The key question to me is not who might make it but how do they keep on producing top quality players from a relatively small population base? Surely we should be able to study and learn from them or maybe just pinch all their top coaches?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Interesting though, that it's basically only the girls

(Of course, there's a few very good male players, and promising boys. But it's nothing in comparison to the girls)

christ · Futures level

HarryGem wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Yes. Though Jaggy has chosen the clear stand-out top three at the moment which, if I were being a bit churlish, I'd say is not really going out on a limb. He may well be right but he's in the pack.
But, yes, I'm sure the Czech federation is sitting pretty there, thinking we don't care, one of them might get injured, Linda F might fizzle (I was expecting better when she played Emma last time), but it really doesn't matter, overhwleming chance that one of the others will come through instead.
The key question to me is not who might make it but how do they keep on producing top quality players from a relatively small population base? Surely we should be able to study and learn from them or maybe just pinch all their top coaches?

Luck contributes. I would like to think that if the Fruhvirtova sisters had been born in the UK, they would have still become top players. But we will never know.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Luck might explain one or two.

But it can't explain eight 15-18 year olds in the top-400 WTA, from a country of only 10 million.

indiana · Tennis legend

The Czech Republic must be verrry lucky.

Luck contributes but more on an ndividual basis. When you are talking such stand out numbers there has to be much more. And ultimately, since whatever it is is producing the numbers it must produce some of the individuals

I recall a few years agon the LTA bod who supposedly saw no connection at all between rhe marked increase in Italian men coming through and the big rise in domestic tournaments. It was just a coincidence apparently.

We certainly should try and learn and pick up on the bits that might work in our game and society.

christ · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
Luck might explain one or two.

But it can't explain eight 15-18 year olds in the top-400 WTA, from a country of only 10 million.

Nope. It can't. But it contributes.

... and it appears to be cyclic: certain countries get very "lucky" for a few years, then the "luck" moves on. All pointing to the aphorism "the harder one works, the luckier one gets". Of course this may well point to a system working particularly well for a while, too!