The Tara Moore fan club

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: The Tara Moore fan club

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tara didn't enter it. She could head down under early, for an extra G1 event there.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tara should choose to play at :

Copa Gatorade - G1 on hard in Venezuela - begins on the 8th of January, entry closes this 18th.

Barranquilla Junior Tennis Tournament Country Club 2007 - G1 on clay in Colombia - begins on the 15th of January, entry closes this 25th.

I hope that she won't miss this chance, as most of the big names will head for Australia.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tara doesn't play in Venezuela.

So what's she going to do in the next few weeks?
She entered herself for Sheffield, but knowing Tara's entry habits, most probably she did that just to humour herself. She can be forgiven as she is only 14 years old.

She hasn't entered herself for a Grade 5 event in her native Hong Kong either. So maybe she will just train/go for a vacation for the next few weeks after Casablanca.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 09:55, 2006-12-22

Salmon · Tennis legend

The doubles points from Casablanca will take her up to around 216 in the rankings from 248. Plus all the 1988 born players will drop out, so she will be inside the top 200 in a few days time.

Her further schedule is really unclear now. She isn't playing in South America like I expected her to. It's pretty unlikely that IMG will get her a wild card into any of the Australian events and it would be shocking if she decided to come to Britain for some women's action.
Looks like she is taking quite a few weeks off from competitive tennis.

-- Edited by Arka at 22:52, 2006-12-30

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tara moves up to 190.

She can drop out of the top 200 very soon.

She isn't playing in the next three (at least) weeks.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

She has all the time on the world!

Salmon · Tennis legend

What's up with Tara?

She isn't playing anytime soon as she isn't on the lists till the second week of February.

Can't see her going for women's events.

The Brits are invading South America in any case:

http://www.cosat.org/main/index.php?i=torneo.lista&id=99&c=3

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

Erm, she's playing in Ecuador next week. It is strange she's only playing 1 week of the tour though.

Salmon · Tennis legend

How on earth did I miss that one? I can swear that I've checked the lists thoroughly. I should hang myself.

The field is really weak. She can take the title if she plays properly.

http://www.cosat.org/main/index.php?i=torneo.lista&id=95&c=3

Ratty · County player

"Rich parents buy more ranking points for darling daughter" Shock Horror.

I thought her ranking would be high enough for her not to bother with this nonsense. It would be interesting to know whether the really good junior players like Paszek, Pavlyuchenkova, Cornet, etc have ever bothered with this type of strategy.

Henman gave his ranking an initial kickstart by playing a couple of African Futures, but you have to move on quickly.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Paszek did play in Africa. East Europe has loads of weak tournaments and Pavlyuchenkova exploited them to the full. Cornet loves playing in South America and spent quite some time there.

I think that it's slightly wrong to compare Tara's case to most top Juniors of today as none of them were based in the US. Hence it would be unlikely that they would go for the high profile rubbish tournaments in South America.

It's very common for IMG students to travel in groups to South and Central America for tournaments. I am not sure, but I don't think that Tara's parents pay anything for these trips. You've got people like Kevin McDuffee for that.

Ratty, are you going to Teen Tennis this year?

-- Edited by Arka at 08:19, 2007-01-18

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tara is up to 145.

She was 202 before.

But when does she next play?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tara is slowly closing the gap between herself and the top.

There are very few players younger than her who are ranked higher:

Tara was born on 6th August 1992.

39 Tamaryn Hendler (Belgium) 12th August 1992.
63 Michelle Larcher de Brito (Portugal) 29th January 1993.

How good can you get...
76 Valeria Solovieva (Russia) 3rd November 1992.
81 Alexandra Kolesnichenko (Uzbekistan) 14th December 1992.
103 Ana Bogdan (Romania) 25th November 1992.

Tara beat Hendler in the finals of Eddie Herr just two years back, so I'm sure that she can overtake all these people soon. Maybe not Larcher de Brito, but you never know.

Salmon · Tennis legend

What's up with Tara this year? She doesn't play in all of February...