Great reports, as always, paulisi

The one I'm particularly intrigued about is Max Carrier.

You say that he looks classy. And I'm glad. Because he is the lad who has always been in the really elite group at the LTA but, to be honest, has practically nothing on his results sheet.

i.e. this is from the LTA site:

"The Mens & Womens Programme is for the very best 16 to 21 year old players in the country who are not currently on the Pro Scholarship Programme (the programme is also available to 14 and 15 year olds in exceptional circumstances)

Which players are on the programme?
Amarni Banks
Alastair Gray
Jasmine Conway
Hannah Klugman
Isabelle Lacy
Eva Shaw
Ranah Stoiber (once finished at Loughborough Academy)
Max Carrier (NAGP U16)
Ben Gusic-Wan (NAGP U16)
Oli Bonding (NAGP U16)"

So this is putting Max in the 'very best 16-21 year olds' - with a heap of other players who are hugely more high profile than him.
I've always wondered quite how he's managed to swing it, to be honest. But I've never seen him play. And there are certainly some youngsters who have a lot of potential going forward but don't have the results at the moment to back it up - and he may well be one of those (or, of course, it's also possible that he's got friends in high places). Either way, it's good to hear that he's impressive on the court.

Confused here. Alistair Gray is 25

Lambda wrote:

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The LTA can be confusing as it mixes the MWP and the National Age Group Programme U16 together. Max has a NAGP U16 Scholarship rather than a MWP Scholarship. The NAGP U16 is for 14 to 16 year olds (and exceptional 12 to 13 year olds) who meet the National Academy selection criteria are not at the National Academy, not on the MWP or Pro Scholarship Programme, and are on a trajectory to be eligible for the Pro Scholarship Programme at National Academy graduation age. So he should really be grouped with those at the NA.

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 I take your point. The LTA lists (and even their criteria and exceptions and whatever) are definitely confusing.

But they mention in that list that Max in NAGP U16. As they do for Oli and Ben. 

But my point is that Oli and Ben and Max are all the same age. But Oli and Ben are top-100. And Max is just inside the top-500. 

As said, maybe he has great potential but I don't think he's been injured - he's been playing events left, right and centre for the last year - and his results are really pretty average, and yet he's one of the elite selected ones. 

Max just seemed to have his dad with him(I assume it was his dad...) no other coaches watching even though Loughborough were there as well as Gosling, Team Bath and quite a few academies

Girls semi finalist
Swiss top seed
Erin
Edie
Tegan

Final report of the week as I need to go and earn some money...

Firstly their was a problem with the ITF site which wasn't resolve until mid morning, so yesterday's score and today's oop were not visible.

Luke Hooper(Bath) the left handed top seed, was far too solid for Louis Hull. Sam Chadwick(Bolton Academy) had a mammoth tussle with Jay Johnson Hauldren(Elite performance academy), the two left handers had a long battle mainly from the baseline, although Jay did occasionally venture forward. Went to 3 and Jay was just too strong in the third
Max Carrier (Reed) had a horrible start , making errors and trying to out hit his opponent. He went 5-2 down and then sensibly changed his playing style to take pace off the ball and keep the ball in play. It worked a treat as he won 5 games on the bounce including one mammoth game with multiple deuces. The second set was more straight forward, with a more confident Max able to mix up his game a bit more.
Ilias Worthington(Bolton Academy) won quite comfortably against Sam Harrison.

Semi Final line up:
Illias Worthington v Max Carrier
Luke Hooper v Jay Johnson Hauldren

In the girls matches
Allegra Hodson was unable to get the big serve and accurate ground shots of yesterday going and the very consistent Erin Pearce(Gosling) was a comfortable winner.
Edie Griffiths (Gosling) beat her team mate Sophia Christodoulou(Gosling) in a very long encounter that was dominated at the baseline, but Edie ground Sophia down with her consistency.
Mia Wainwright again played very well and gave Teagen Bush (Edgbaston priory) a real test, but was broken serving to stay in the final set.
Josephine Kunz is a quality player and has beaten everyone she has played very comfortably. Isabelle Britton(Bath) had no answers to her big serve and accurate ground strokes

Semi final line up:
Edie Griffiths v Erin Pearce
Josephine Kranz v Teagan Bush

Doubles Semi Finals:
Carrier/Zagars v De Regt/Pikkaart
Hooper/Coffey v Brady/Marsh

Kunz/Schnyder v Christodoulou/Pearce
Copley/Walker v Romanova/Waas

Elizabeth Evans withdrew injured overnight giving a walkover to Leticia and Sirena

Max Carrier lost pretty easily to Ilias Worthington

And will play Jay Johnson- Hauldren who won in three sets over the top seed

Tegan posted an excellent score against the top seed but it wasn't quite enough. Erin made the final, winning in three sets over Edie, which finished off a very good week for her.

BOYS SFs:

(6) Illias Worthington def. (3) Max Carrier 6-3 6-3
(7) Jay Johnson Hauldren def. (1) Luke Hooper 6-1 2-6 6-0

GIRLS SFs:

(4) Erin Pearce def. (wc) Edie Griffiths 5-7 6-2 6-2
(1) Josephine Kunz (SUI) def. Tegan Bush 7-5 6-4

 

And thanks again for the reports, paulisi  

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 16th of November 2023 11:51:38 AM