The Ren Sisters and Laura Robson Thread.

Salmon · Tennis legend

The Ren Sisters and Laura Robson Thread.

RedCabbage · Club Coach

All four of them into the second round.

Ren and Broady had byes and Malik and Poleman (? never noticed his name before) won in straights.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Liam is through to both singles and doubles finals!

Jessica didn't do well in singles but is through to the doubles final.

-- Edited by Arka at 05:24, 2007-11-11

Salmon · Tennis legend

Next ITF event - Prince Cup (G4) from 10th Dec.

Entry list.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

I'm taking this is part of their US tour incluing Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl aswell?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yep.

It'll be interesting to see if they extend their stay in North America by a bit and do the Grade A in Mexico. Given how weak the draw can be, Robson and the older Ren could make a real killing.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Jennifer doing a G3 in Sweden from second week of Jan.

http://toolbox.svenskidrott.se/Downloads/39298/docs/ITF_Girls_0708_2.htm

Salmon · Tennis legend

This thread makes a comeback!

Laura Robson's win in Santa Croce over Jessy Rompies (ITF no. 19, although badly overranked) will ensure that she gets into the top 100. She will be ranked 94ish or better, depending on further results. Although she is older than all of them, the next highest 1994 born girls are ranked 220, 227 and 235 which shows how well she is doing!

Jennifer, as we know, makes her WTA ranking debut at 1063.

Jessica still can't play ITFs full time because she has to save up, so she is doing a 14s Category 1 in the Czech Republic instead -

http://www.bohemiacup.org/files/mon/gmd.pdf

Next week, Jessica plays another Category 1 event, in Slovakia. Entry list - http://www.stz.sk/soubory/mm_acc_piestany_u14_girls_08.pdf

Speaking of 14s tennis, although this is not the right section, Liam Broady is probably one tournament away from becoming the number 1 in Europe!

Peter too · Tennis legend

Johanna Konta is also playing in that tournament as a GBR player. It totally re-organises our list of top juniors with Johanna as our new number 1, Jade Curtis as 2, Laura Robson now moving up to 3 and Tara Moore 4.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yeah, but I am not sure if that has been formally approved by the ITF even now. They really are taking their time with it!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great stuff from Laura. Hopefully she can keep climing this year. Will be interesting to see how she does in wimbledon.

Simon · Lower Club Player

Jessica Ren is in to the final of the Cat 1 TE14 tournament.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Jessica is toying with this field - she is in the final with scorelines of 62 63; 62 61; 63 63 (vs. the European no. 3) and 61 61.

In the final, she plays Yulia Putinseva, 1995 born and ranked 5 in Europe. She already has a Category 1 title, so she must be a quality player.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Still no result.

Today I came across Robson's profile on the Octagon site, which tells us some things we don't know.

"Lauras mum was a professional basketball player, while her brother is one of the best swimmers for his age in Australia. One of her cousins represents Australia in kayaking, another pulls on the Australian colours in hockey. Sporting success through-and-through."

Besides many other things - http://www.octagon-uk.com/content.aspx?menu=87

This probably means she already has an agent etc. I think it's a good thing.... Octagon also has Britain's best male prospect, for that matter.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Who is that?