Only girls, only juniors, and only doubles...

But a potential "Comaneci moment" looms for Vondrousova+Kolodziejova.

To post a perfect doubles score, they would need to simultaneously hold 4 Grand Slams, and both of the Grade A tournaments with bonus points.

So far, they hold 4 of the 6: the Orange Bowl, the Australian Open, the Italian Open, the French Open. They've just made the Wimbledon QFs, with the US Open to follow. So currently, 22 wins in the biggest (Grade A+) tournaments, just 8 wins short of ranking point perfection.

-- Edited by wimdledont on Thursday 9th of July 2015 12:11:40 PM

From Zootennis re: the US boys nationals this year (which comes, if I remember correctly with a WC into the US Open for the winner). "The boys 18s field here in Kalamazoo will feature ITF World No. 1 junior Taylor Fritz, French Open champion Tommy Paul, Wimbledon champion Reilly Opelka, ITF No. 3 Michael Mmoh, No. 10 William Blumberg, as well as [former Wimbledon finalist, ATP 361] Stefan Kozlov, Nathan Ponwith and Alex Rybakov. Frances Tiafoe [17 yo, ATP 287] was not initially included in the acceptances, but has accepted a wild card." I think that Jared Donaldson would also have been eligible had he elected to play; one suspects the reason that he didn't is that he's almost certainly guaranteed a WC given that his ranking should be within the top 150.

Will be very interesting to see: they're clearly not the highest ranked of their age group (an honour going by some margin to Messrs Coric and Zverev). but as with Australia (which has 10 men 23 and under in the top 300), France (which has 9 men 23 and under in the top 300) and Russia (a little less spectacular in the rankings - but it has no home slam to inflate rankings - and has Rublev, Khachanov and Safiullin inter alia) ... the sheer weight of numbers potentially competing at a top level may help them get quite a cadre in the top 100, even if a few leave.

If it came with a WC to Wimbledon, I am sure they would! The problem is that you have to have the consent of the relevant Grand Slam (I think that in the US the national authorities run it, which makes life easier) and a consistent enough supply of good juniors that you can offer the WC without potential embarrassment: the US winners in the past decade (their fallow period) have been Noah Rubin, Collin Altamirano, Dennis Novikov, Jack Sock (multiple years), Chase Buchanan, Austin Krajicek, Michael McClune, and Donald Young (multiple years). There are times when we could have met or bettered that - but equally times such as now where there really isn't anyone who could handle it. (And of course in the UK, you'd be exposing a young player to the horrid media, which could set them back instead of helping them grow). A QWC might be an idea, though. Or a QWC to the new grass tournament ... or something ...

Many potential ones this week ... Rajeev Ram winning Newport as a non-top-100 player. First title for Ms Larsson (and on a home ground). But staying on the Davis Cup theme, it's time for the young and the old to take a bow. On the young side, Mr Rublev - 17 - who beat Pablo Andujar WR 32 in a live 5th rubber to keep Russia in the mix for the WG playoffs. Impressive. (Overall, the fact that the Russian team - with its highest player ranked at 163 - beat Spain, whose lowest-ranked player was 32, is rather astounding ... Donskoy, who beat Robredo in singles and Marrero and Lopez in doubles, should also be taking bows. Glad that he chose to perform his heroics this time and not a few years ago)

On the "elder statesman" side, Mr Estrella Burgos put the Dominican Republic into the WG playoffs for the first time ever - like Mr Murray, he won two singles and the doubles. Amer Delic came out of retirement and played as BIH captain in the doubles, which his team won. And Pakistan (which won its group tie though without Mr Qureshi) fielded the oldest player - though he didn't actually play - their captain, and aged 53!

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 20th of July 2015 05:15:26 PM

OK. Our old friend Pablo Carreño Busta has reared his head again with another stat worthy of this thread. His win in the Poznan Challenger last week takes him to 11-0 in career Challenger finals. This win takes him close to the Top 50 again.

So after winning his first round, and becoming the youngest to win a Challenger main draw match according to news sites. I thought I'd catch a bit of his match against Darian King. Just watched the 2nd half of the first set I have to say very very impressive for a 14 year old. Shame that there's a delay in the 2nd set due to rain. I think with his first round win he'll be in the top 900.