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7th March and glad I can get this up !

This month is 4 weeks and closes on 31st March, which is the end of the Miami 1000 event

Usual process, anyone can nominate at any time, just add a name and reason and off we go!

 

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Bumping this as we get to business end of week 1 of 4

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Not sure week 1 is going to be a very fruitful opening week, the two week masters events reduce the number of peaks in the month and events also, I guess, so to be expected that we wont have as many high points.

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Reading through the weeks results properly, Oli Bonding looks like the one making most progress relative to expectations!

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Content shamelessly stolen from the tournament thread. Hoping it will need an update tomorrow!

 

Nominations

1. Oliver Bonding for reaching the final of the J500 "Banana Bowl". Oli is the first British boy to reach the semis or beyond of a J500 event since they were introduced in 2023.

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Ah, nice one, Tanaqui; good job!

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Are there any other fruit bowls (orange? Banana? And?)

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Are there any other fruit bowls (orange? Banana? And?)

 The ITF website suggests they're the only two fruit bowls in tennis, but there's a Peach Bowl and a Citrus Bowl as well as an Orange Bowl in US College Football. Also the Rose Bowl, Potato Bowl, Sugar Bowl....



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JonH comes home wrote:

Are there any other fruit bowls (orange? Banana? And?)

 The ITF website suggests they're the only two fruit bowls in tennis, but there's a Peach Bowl and a Citrus Bowl as well as an Orange Bowl in US College Football. Also the Rose Bowl, Potato Bowl, Sugar Bowl....

 Haha, good sleuthing! Is that an ITF look up - tennis events named after fruits?! 



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And potato bowl doesnt feel quite appropriate!

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Tanaqui wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

Are there any other fruit bowls (orange? Banana? And?)

 The ITF website suggests they're the only two fruit bowls in tennis, but there's a Peach Bowl and a Citrus Bowl as well as an Orange Bowl in US College Football. Also the Rose Bowl, Potato Bowl, Sugar Bowl....

 Haha, good sleuthing! Is that an ITF look up - tennis events named after fruits?! 

 Not quite! I got up the list of junior tournaments and searched for ones with Bowl in the name. So I may have missed some that are named after fruits but not a $fruit Bowl



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Update to the narrative, as Oli won! 

Nominations

1. Oliver Bonding, for winning the J500 "Banana Bowl", dropping only one set along the way. Oli is the first British boy to win a J500 event since they were introduced in 2023, having earlier in the week become the first British boy to reach the semis or beyond of a J500 event.

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Nominations

1. Oliver Bonding, for winning the J500 "Banana Bowl", dropping only one set along the way. Oli is the first British boy to win a J500 event since they were introduced in 2023, having earlier in the week become the first British boy to reach the semis or beyond of a J500 event.

 

2. Alfie Hewett - won the Super series Cajun Classic, beating world number one (Oda) in the final and for a secomd straight week to take his consecutive wins now to 12 matches. Also won the doubles title (w/ Gordon Reid). 

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-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 10th of March 2024 09:08:37 PM

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This second week in March doesnt feel like it is going to be a bumper week for nominations!! With the two weeks Miami event coming next, we might find it is a quieter month than other recent ones!

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Edited Oli's nomination with a bit of extra information from the tournament thread to explain how good/rare his win is.

And that"s a nice nomination for Alfie, Jon -- he's definitely on a roll!

Nominations

1. Oliver Bonding, for winning the J500 "Banana Bowl", dropping only one set along the way. Oli is the first British boy to win a J500 event since they were introduced in 2023, having earlier in the week become the first British boy to reach the semis or beyond of a J500 event. Prior to the introduction of J500s, only three other British boys had won any of the equivalent top-level "Grade A" tournaments, the last of them being George Morgan, who won the 2010 Orange Bowl. 

2. Alfie Hewett - won the Super series Cajun Classic, beating world number one (Oda) in the final and for a secomd straight week to take his consecutive wins now to 12 matches. Also won the doubles title (w/ Gordon Reid). 

3.

 



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