The Tara Moore fan club

Happycynic · Pro player

RE: The Tara Moore fan club

Sheddie · administrator

She often seems to enter these challengers and then pulls out at the last minute, hasn't played an ITF womens event for ages !

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

She'll play in Canada not the USA if she does play next week.

Salmon · Tennis legend

A 50K would be a bold move!!

Her not playing Juniors makes a lot of sense now. She can play just fourteen tournaments between her 14th and 15th birthday and she has used up eight of those chances.
So just six tournaments between now and August. Assuming that four of those eight are Astrid Bowl, Roland Garros, Roehampton and Wimbly, she can play just TWO tournaments between now and end May.

And four remaining women's tournaments, which she should play as late as possible in my opinion.

We should get used to lack of Tara action.

Sheddie · administrator

Thanks for explaining that Arka, I didn't realise that Tara could play so few junior tournaments. They really should let promising 14 year olds play just a few more than that ! Maybe 18 tournaments between 14 and 15.

Do you know where Tara's based ?

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

The Bollettieri Academy.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tara is based at IMG.

She can play four extra tournaments if she cracks the top 20. She could do it if she had skipped Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl and played all the COSAT tournaments, but no use complaining about it now.

She might skip Roland Garros and play somewhere where there'll be easier points. At least that's what I want her to do.

Salmon · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:
Do you know where Tara's based ?

I thought that you knew that.

ultimateshedman wrote:
She grew up in Hong Kong and later moved to London. She went to the fabled IMG academies in Bradenton and receives a full scholarship there. She is rated very highly by the coaches there. Senior coaches regard her as the best British prospect in a generation. Plus Nick himself said about Tara and her opponent, after she won the U12 Girls' championship at IMG, "The way they hit the ball, that would have been an 18-under match 25 years ago."

Tara can use her ITF ranking for entering a few 16s tournaments in case she wants more match practice.

Sheddie · administrator

Arka wrote:

ultimateshedman wrote:
Do you know where Tara's based ?

I thought that you knew that.
ultimateshedman wrote:
She grew up in Hong Kong and later moved to London. She went to the fabled IMG academies in Bradenton and receives a full scholarship there. She is rated very highly by the coaches there. Senior coaches regard her as the best British prospect in a generation. Plus Nick himself said about Tara and her opponent, after she won the U12 Girls' championship at IMG, "The way they hit the ball, that would have been an 18-under match 25 years ago."

Tara can use her ITF ranking for entering a few 16s tournaments in case she wants more match practice.

Ah but I don't have the memory of the Panda for this stuff

I can't even remember where I found that info now.

Sheddie · administrator

Arka wrote:

Tara is based at IMG.

She can play four extra tournaments if she cracks the top 20. She could do it if she had skipped Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl and played all the COSAT tournaments, but no use complaining about it now.

She might skip Roland Garros and play somewhere where there'll be easier points. At least that's what I want her to do.

Do you mean top 20 juniors or just top 20 U16s ? Surely top 20 juniors is a long way off at the moment, even if she had played all the COSAT tourneys.

I doubt she'll skip Roland Garros, she seems to be very ambitious with regards to the tournaments she enters eg: entering Orange Bowl U18s when she could have played the 14&U !

I'm guessing she'll have to play qualies for Roland Garros ?

Btw, we need a junior rankings thread.....

Would be useful to be able to see easily who the top 10 British boys and girls are.

Salmon · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

Do you mean top 20 juniors or just top 20 U16s ? Surely top 20 juniors is a long way off at the moment, even if she had played all the COSAT tourneys.

Top 20 Juniors. It's tough, but Tara would have had an outside chance if she played them. You need to be something really special to win Eddie Herr.

ultimateshedman wrote:
I doubt she'll skip Roland Garros, she seems to be very ambitious with regards to the tournaments she enters eg: entering Orange Bowl U18s when she could have played the 14&U !

I'm guessing she'll have to play qualies for Roland Garros ?

She has set herself mighty high standards and rightly so. That's just how good you usually need to be to become a top player.

Hingis won Roland Garros Juniors at the age of 12.

She'll have to play qualies with this ranking. Last year the cut was 55.

ultimateshedman wrote:
Btw, we need a junior rankings thread..... Would be useful to be able to see easily who the top 10 British boys and girls are.

Where do I start it? Here or in the Junior section?
Won't be able to do it before the next week. I have too much work now and after today I won't be online till Monday.

Salmon · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

Ah but I don't have the memory of the Panda for this stuff I can't even remember where I found that info now.

I have the memory of the Panda and hence I remember where you got the info. Check your PM Inbox.

Sheddie · administrator

Arka wrote:
Where do I start it? Here or in the Junior section?
Won't be able to do it before the next week. I have too much work now and after today I won't be online till Monday.

Would be best to do it in the junior section.

Make sure you're on msn tonight, I've got a lot to ask you !

Salmon · Tennis legend

Okay. What time? Midnight GMT?

Sheddie · administrator

midnight should suit me fine