British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Rose wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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Mia Wainwright will get a nice boost from the doubles win - she only has five counters in her doubles

I note that all her tournaments have been in Britain - not a single event played abroad? Does anyone know of any particualr reasons?

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 Finances mostly. She funds herself a lot by working as a coach. Very dedicated 

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 Thanks, Rose

That had been my guess - it's nearly always a financial issue - but I didn't want to assume

Frankly, that's pretty poor - you'd have thought a junior who is being given a wildcard into Wimbledon would have access to some sort of financial help, at some level 

Is she going to US college, do you know, Rose? 

Var wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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Jajon wrote:

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Is there a time when we get concerned about Mika Stojsavljevics results? Or still way too early?

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 Just my feeling: I completely buy off on the fact in the last few months that: (a) Mika has been mainly focused on exams, and (b) she's not great on grass, and useless on clay (so not worth playing) 

BUT in the next few months, we're now on hard (her surface) and exams are finished 

So, I'm not at all concerned about her results (adults or juniors) at the moment

But I expect to see something a bit more promising over the next few months 

If we haven't seen more than an odd win here or there by a Xmas, at the latest, I'd be concerned (not 'OMG, the world is ending' concerned, she's still young, but definitely a bit concerned)  

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CD, notsure if you saw the interview with BJK, Tracy A and JM before the Cam match. John was saying college route is the way now as players are playing for much longer due to physios , nutrition etc. Tracy agreed, saying that by the age of 27/8 you were deemed as retired. We see on the womens side, players having children and coming back full time to the game and in the case of  Bencic and Maria, doing so well. If we look at Cam Jake and JPJ you just wonder whether the in between years (18-21) are better spent on honing your game? Everyone is different but what are the thoughts out there?

 

 

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 I didn't see the interview but, tbh, it doesn't sound as though they're saying anything new

The point about the longer shelf life of players has been true for at least 10 years, (it's all to do with prize money - when prize money went up in a mega way, then not only did the players want to stay, but there were also the funds now to invest in nutrition, conditioning etc - as Bjorg said, there was no point staying on when he was in his mid-20s, you were earning diddly squat - although his alternatives didn't work out so well either.....)

And US college used to be even bigger several years ago (quite a lof of programmes have closed down now)

So the peak argument for college may well have passed

BUT, yes, I'm all for it. Esepcially for the men/boys.

Some don't like the idea - if you're an 18 year-old who is really done with education then there's no point (although I did tell one youngster that, even if you utterly hated education up till now, you might be surprised at the difference in college, the difference in the style of education, being on your own, having mega tennis at the same time - seems to me it's worth trying - unless you stopped before GCSEs, for instance, which is pretty unlikley now) 

But what's to lose? You can drop out if you hate it. And, for most, it provides excellent training, comradeship, support etc etc, at a time when it's difficult for youngsters 

That said, I'm hoping Mika is not going down that route, simply because I hope she will have already moved over successfully to adult pro tennis fulltime 

Mimi's match is up early, as the men's invitational match before it got cancelled

Hannah takes the first set 6-4. In Mimis match they were both serving over 100 mph, here the serve speed seems to be well down. Anyway. Job done in first set.

Ruby loses the first set 6-3 to the number 3 seed Tagger. She really stuck with her much higher ranked opponent for the first six games and then Tagger just pulled away.

JonH comes home wrote:

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Var wrote:

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Ruby loses the first set 6-3 to the number 3 seed Tagger. She really stuck with her much higher ranked opponent for the first six games and then Tagger just pulled away.

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 Tagger won the French juniors? 

good to see Hannah and Mimi make the last 8, well done to them. 

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Yeah, very tall and rangy player. Mimi could well get the better of her on the grass though. Well done to Ruby for getting this far.  

paulisi wrote:

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The big three are the top 3 ranked players.
Emerson Jones, Lilli Tagger and Hannah Klugman.

All are still going.

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Pareja who won the J300 - and is the second highest ranked in adults - looked imperious today: amazing quality in her first set, in particular

Lilli doesn't look comfortable on grass - she can't read the trajectory that well, she puts a lot of balls long, she's getting better but it's not great 

Valdmannova cruised really nicely, though