2024 Rankings

DavidC · Tennis legend

2024 Rankings

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ben is back in the top-50
And Max Carrier has cracked the top-200

Top 200 and main upward movers

Boys

29th April 2024

6 (-1) Henry Searle
17 (-1) Oliver Bonding ('07)
31 (-2) Viktor Frydrych
48 (+7) Ben Gusic Wan ('07)
66 (-4) Charlie Robertson

160 (-4) Luke Hooper
185 (-4) Henry Jefferson
197 (+12) Max Carrier ('07)

298 (+12) Jay Johnson-Hauldren
321 (+37) Conor Brady ('07)
358 (+98) Zech Hamrouni ('07)
469 (+131) Louis Hull ('07)

505 (+11) Max Castle
948 (+80) Harry Lumb

1090 (+135) Issah Ali ('07)
1153 (+178) Felix B Evans ('07)

2004 (+482) Darsh Sachin Patel ('09)
2160 (+26) Leo Wright ('09)
2543 (+392) Kasra Nathaniel Shirazi ('09)
2560 - NEW IN - Jack Berry ('07)

3155 - NEW IN - Michael Wilson ('09)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 29th of April 2024 07:54:26 PM

LordBrownof · Futures level

Hi Coup, from what I can decipher from WC's and team selections the LTA seems to favor Zech Hamrouni over Max Carrier, despite Max being higher ranked - is that fair and if so, do you know why?

twentytoone · Lower Club Player

Thats odd because when they were younger I remember max getting far more lta support than most and he wasnt even very highly ranked at the time

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

twentytoone wrote:
Thats odd because when they were younger I remember max getting far more lta support than most and he wasnt even very highly ranked at the time

Yes, that's my recollection too.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

LordBrownof wrote:
Hi Coup, from what I can decipher from WC's and team selections the LTA seems to favor Zech Hamrouni over Max Carrier, despite Max being higher ranked - is that fair and if so, do you know why?

Sorry, I'm not sure. As per twentytoone below, Max C was the more favoured player for a couple of years, to my recollection. But results were rather disappointing. Zech certainly has a lovely relaxed arm to his game, but I haven't watched enough to have a properly informed opinion. I'm not sure how the LTA sees them now

paulisi · Tennis legend

Max was funded by the LTA until last year, but lost his funding.
Not sure if Zech is funded

Lambda · Futures level

Zech is at the National Academy

twentytoone · Lower Club Player

paulisi wrote:
Max was funded by the LTA until last year, but lost his funding.
Not sure if Zech is funded

any clue why he lost his funding

paulisi · Tennis legend

He didn't hit his ranking target, which was set pretty high and they already had funding for the big two in his year group...

Daisycat · Social player

I think Zechariah is at Loughborough academy?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

twentytoone wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Max was funded by the LTA until last year, but lost his funding.
Not sure if Zech is funded
any clue why he lost his funding

His ITF results had been quite uninspiring

It's difficult for a federation - how long do they stick with someone whom they've identified as promising but who isn't getting the exepcted results?

It seems short-sighted to drop them too soon but their place is, of course, at the expense of someone else so it's also unfair to the others to stick with them for too long

Max is not the only one, of course - several other names jump to mind too

Fuey2 · Newbie

It appears Max C was given the same support level as Oliver B and Ben GW until just recently - in spite of his lackluster international results. Theres a lot of talent in the UK but the LTA cant support everyone indefinitely I guess.

See previous post by Lambda

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t63990809/the-lta/

twentytoone · Lower Club Player

Just makes no sense to me that he has no Funding given hes on track to make top 100 in juniors and I seem to remember him making the quartets at Les petit as which may have been a reason that he got the same funding as Ben and oli

Lambda · Futures level

Max was on the National Age Group U16 programme, for players who meet the National Academy criteria but choose not to go. He is now too old for the NAGP U16. The next step on the pathway is the Mens & Womens Programme which Max does not meet the criteria for selection - a 16 year old boy needs to have a ITF Junior ranking of 150 or better to be shortlisted for consideration.

-- Edited by Lambda on Thursday 2nd of May 2024 05:26:31 PM