Boys: Wimbledon 2016, grass - Grade A (Week 27)

BradMarx90 · County player

Boys: Wimbledon 2016, grass - Grade A (Week 27)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ryan lost the TB 7-6(5)

Which, given the number of BPs he had to defend, was probably the fair result, overall, if there had to be one.

But VERY close.

And after having gone a break down at the start of the second, he's got it back at 2-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ryan wins the second set 6-3

Which was also the fair result - Ryan kept going for his aggressive shots, Wolf looked a little jaded, but good tennis from both.

Allez, Ryan !

Etienne · Club Coach

Jay Clarke won, 1&4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ryan, you beauty !

7-5 in the third

And a huge well done to Jay too - shame it wasn't streamed.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Luke Hammond, as has been said before, is one of our most under-ranked players, given he's played so few tournies compared to the others. (Or maybe our best ranked player on points divided by tournies played, to put it another way).

And, being so tall and 'slim', will always mature into himself as a player slightly later than the shorter guys.

And is 'one of ours' in that Matt posts on here (his coach - Hi, Matt !).

Anyway, he's just taken the first set on a tie-break, against a French lad who looks uneasy on the grass.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Well done to Ryan - his opponent seemed to have a slight edge in power, but Ryan was more solid on the big points.

Luke is currently on the live stream - and nice to see a junior keen to get to the net at any opportunity. He has just won the first set tiebreak.

Finn is a break down in the first set.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Finn comes from behind with 2 consecutive breaks to take the first set 6-4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great win by Luke - he looks thrilled, and rightly so

Two tie-breaks.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Luke took charge of the second set tiebreak to complete a straight sets win

Finn leads 5-2 in the second with Moeller just coming back from 0-40 to deuce

DavidC · Tennis legend

Moeller went on to hold from 0-40 and break back, but Finn was able to get the win in the end 6-4 7-5

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Finn wins too

He had some great results at about this time last year, so it obviously suits him ...

And just to mention:

Last year, not a single UK boy passed round 1 of Junior Wimbly.

This year, we have four wins already !!!

Well done to Jay, Ryan, Luke H and Finn.

And good luck to the others who haven't played yet.

DavidC · Tennis legend

R1 (L64)

(1) Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) v (WC) Alexis Canter
(WC) Ben Draper v (Q) Olukayode Alafia Damina Ayeni (USA)
Jay Clarke d. Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG) 6-1 6-4
(WC) Luke Hammond d. Dan Added (FRA) 7-6(3) 7-6(1)
(WC) Finn Bass d. Marvin Moeller (GER) 6-4 7-5
Daniel Altmaier (GER) d. (WC) Max Stewart 6-2 6-0
Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves (BRA) d. (WC) Aidan McHugh 6-3 7-5
(3) Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) d. (WC) Alastair Gray 6-2 6-3
Ryan James Storrie d. Jeffrey John Wolf (USA) 6-7(5) 6-3 7-5
Ergi Kirkin (TUR) v (WC) Ewan Moore

DavidC · Tennis legend

Doubles R1 (L32)

(1) Auger-Aliassime/Shapovalov (CAN) v (WC) Hersey/McHugh
Meligeni Rodrigues Alves/Storrie (BRA/GBR) v Wu/Wu (TPE/CHN)
Davidovich Fokina/Popyrin (ESP/AUS) v (5) Chung/Clarke (KOR/GBR)
Added/Vale (FRA/POR) v (WC) J.Draper/Matusevich
(WC) Bass/Gray v (4) Sigouin/Wessels (CAN/GER)
(WC) B.Draper/Molloy v Blanch/Kirkov (USA)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Very good 1st round, especially pleased for Jay and Ryan.