Just makes no sense to me that he has no Funding given hes on track to make top 100 in juniors and I seem to remember him making the quartets at Les petit as which may have been a reason that he got the same funding as Ben and oli
Max is barely inside 200 ITF for being nearly 17. This is not impressive at all. I cant recall him ever performing in Nationals, Tennis Europes (excep one event - QF of Tarbes at 14U) and not the ITFs. He is well behind Ben GW and Oli B From the same year group. Not sure why he should be given funding over other kids ?
There have been several people on this forum who have pretty vehemently defended Max but I've never quite seen it myself.
But, to me, the whole question is how the pyramid of financial help should be structured.
If it is a proper pyramid, you have mega help at national level, medium help at regional level, and a little bit of help at county level. This is what I've been involved with and it works well.
It's relatively fluid, and flexible. Players move up and down. If, however, you simply have mega or nothing, it's terribly abrupt, very difficult to get selected and quite difficult to get dropped too (because so much has now been invested). There's an inertia in the system which I don't like.
Big congrats to Leo Wright ('09) who jumped over 800 places following his success in Finland last week.
Leo is now our 4th best ranked boy born in 2009 (and we have no 2010-ers)
Boys
13th May 2024
Top 100 and main upward movers
6 (=) Henry Searle
18 (-1) Oliver Bonding ('07)
32 (=) Viktor Frydrych
46 (=) Ben Gusic Wan ('07)
65 (=) Charlie Robertson
265 (+58) Conor Brady ('07)
718 (+44) Harry Abel ('07)
1111 (+61) Felix B Evans ('07)
1329 (+847) Leo Wright ('09)
1886 (+249) Lucas Ebert ('07)