ultimateshedman wrote:

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Greenleaf; of Broady, Jones and Cornish, who do you think the best prospect so far ?
It is hard to tell at this stage though, lots of possible pitfalls lie ahead. Very promising starts for all three here

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Nick gets more publicity than most players of his age and I think that he can be a decent top 100 player with some effort. Some reporters brand him as the next Andy Murray, but I don't believe in that. Of course, he may mature with time. Here is a good interview with him in case anyone is interested:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/raiseyourgame/pages/nick_jones.shtml

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Shame neither Llewellyn or Hewitt got through to the main draw. I guess that both will be going for Orange Bowl qualifying ? I wondered why neither had entered Sunderland or Shrewsbury qualifying ? Hopefully both will start to play a lot more senior events next year, that will ensure that they improve a lot faster than playing on the junior circuit.

Is Llewellyn in his final year in the juniors ?

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Yes, they will play qualies of Orange Bowl.

Llewellyn's Juniors career will get over this year.

ultimateshedman wrote:

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How do you rate the chances of Akhezzan and Dyce in the main draw Greenleaf ? How strong are the U16 and U18 fields. Akhezzan's results haven't been particularly good lately, hopefully he can start to turn that around.

When will the U16 and U18 main draws be out ?

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Akhazzan's recent results have been a bit depressing. He is still fifteen, so I hope that he will turn things around soon. The 16s field is strong, but nothing compared to the Orange Bowl 16s field. The players are of Akhazzan's standards and not 18s level players. He is now based in Bradenton and will be seeded, so he should make some progress.

It depends a lot on the luck of the draw for Dyce. If he doesn't get one of the big names, he can surely win two rounds or more and get his points total up. This is his home turf, so upsets are possible too.

The draws will be out later tonight.


-- Edited by Greenleaf at 13:54, 2006-11-26

The remaining third round matches of 14&U qualies have been played. The qualifying round matches of 14&U have been played.

Qualies third round results:

14&U qualies:

Sabian Latore lost to Denis Novikov of the US63 61.


Qualifying round results:

14&U qualies:

Jack Carpenter defeated Martin Krueger of Germany 63 61.

1 Brit out of 4 qualified.




-- Edited by Greenleaf at 07:50, 2006-11-27

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 08:15, 2006-11-27

12&U Doubles results:

Gossea/Cornish lost in round one.
Edwards/Samardzic are through to the third round.
Hill/Barra are through to the third round.
Broady/Nguyen are through to the third round.


12&U second round results:

Tom Hill lost to "strong seeded" Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 60 63.
Farris Gossea lost to "strong seeded" Joseph Di Giulio of the US 75 61.
Jonathan Cornish lost to "strong seeded" Maxx Lipman of the US in three sets.
Liam Broady defeated Jimmy Bendeck of the US 60 61.

So it's Broady or bust....

Shiver my timbers!! The 18&U draw has changed.


Dyce now plays sixth seed Jose-Roberto Velasco of Bolivia. Velasco defeated him in Kentucky a few months ago.

12&U Round of 16 Results:

Liam Broady defeated seeded Mitchell Polnet of the US 46 64 63.

Excellent show from Liam. The fact that he is defeating seeds confirms his quality.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 16:27, 2006-11-28

14&U First Round (revised) :

Nick Jones didn't turn up.
They got the Joseph Cohen result the other way round. He double bagelled his opponent instead of getting double bagelled.
The Jack Carpenter result was correct.


14&U Second Round :

Joseph Cohen lost 76 64 to the tenth seed, Emmett Egger of the US.
Qualifier Jack Carpenter defeated the seventh seed, Junior Ore of the US in three sets.

Carpenter's next opponent is worth a special mention. Argentinian prodigy Andrea Collarini is widely regarded as the best ten year old in the game. That boy is winning competitions after defeating people four years older than him!!


16&U First Round :

Akhazzan lost 1 and 3. We shouldn't blame him. His opponent was too good.

Wild card Michael Davis defeated Shoei Kondo of Japan at 62 61.


14&U Doubles:

Joseph Cohen and Dominik Schulz of Germany are the seventh seeds.
Max Peara teams up with James Kong of Hong Kong.
Sabian Latore teams up with Kamil Khalil of Libya.


16&U Doubles:

Alastair Barnes teams up with German Sanchez of Mexico.
Faris Akhazzan and Eric Hannah of the US are the seventh seeds.