45th Juniors International Orange Bowl

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

45th Juniors International Orange Bowl

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

Direct entries (there are other Brits, but have issues such filling in forms!!):

Under 16's:

AKHAZZAN Faris , BARNES Alistair , BULL Alex , DAVIS Michael, DONAGHY Jamie, SEARS Scott

Under 18's:

BAKER Simon, BARNES Lewis , COX Dan, DYCE Graeme, EVANS Oliver, FITZPATRICK Andrew, HEWITT Tim, HODGSON Dominic

JAMES Matthew , JONES Edward , KNIGHTS Thomas, LLEWELLYN Christopher , MILTON Joshua, PODLEWSKI Oscar, RICE David GBR, RICHARDSON James.

-- Edited by VSandhi20 at 13:37, 2006-10-27

-- Edited by VSandhi20 at 13:38, 2006-10-27

Salmon · Tennis legend

All the 14&U and 12&U players are shown in qualifiers, proper lists will be out next week.

Among those, Broady and Poelman are great prospects in 12&U. Nick Jones happens to be highly rated and I've read good reviews about Marsalek too.

Here is the 18&U entry list:

Linky!

The field is extremely strong. My guess is that Dan will get in, but he will need to win two rounds to improve his points total and that will be extremely tough given that he could draw any of the top few seeds early on.

Dyce will need to win a round and that is likely considering the fact that he has been playing on Floridan hardcourts for quite some time now.

Josh Milton may need to qualify. He will need to win a round to improve his total.

I am interested in seeing who Dan will partner in doubles. He could go with Dyce or Milton due to obvious reasons. But given that he has received very little success with British partners in the last few tournaments, I won't mind him partnering someone foreign like Elias, who he has a title with.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 21:51, 2006-11-11

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 12:11, 2006-11-12

Salmon · Tennis legend

16&U entry list:

Linky!

Faris Ahazzan is the only British player in the main draw. Akhazzan is still fifteen years of age. He is now based in Bradenton, Florida.

Tomic could run away with the title.

But I hope that people like Michon will be able to defeat him. Tomic doesn't have too good a record against people of his own level on their favoured surfaces

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 12:10, 2006-11-12

Salmon · Tennis legend

In 12&U:

Liam is seeded. But the bad news is that he is in the same half as Krueger.

Kim is in the other half though.

Jathan Malik, Jonathan Cornish, Lucas Poelman and Farris Gosea are unseeded.

In 14&U:

This is ridiculous! Bernard Tomic decided to play here.

He is good enough to win a round in 18s. This really is a step backward.

I'd be surprised if anyone in the field came close to taking a set off him. Ashot Khacharyan maybe..... has had great results in Europe this year.

James Marsalek, Ben Davis, Jack Carpenter and Nick Jones are all unseeded. Hopefully Nick is fit at this moment.

Draws:

http://tournaments.usta.com/tournaments/Draws/EventDraw.aspx?T=38377&E=1&D=M&S=1

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 21:09, 2006-12-16

Salmon · Tennis legend

12&U:

Liam is the only one through to the round of 16. Poelman was the only other one to make the third round.

And there is more good news! Krueger was knocked out.

Of course... it could be that the guy who knocked him out is a bigger threat....

We don't have a single boy remaining in 14s.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Go Liam!!!

Sheddie · administrator

Greenleaf wrote:

12&U:

We don't have a single boy remaining in 14s.

That sucks, they should all be taken back home and given a good grounding

Hopefully Liam can keep GB interest going this week

Drew · Dec 20, 2006

ultimateshedman wrote:

Greenleaf wrote:

12&U:

We don't have a single boy remaining in 14s.

That sucks, they should all be taken back home and given a good grounding

Hopefully Liam can keep GB interest going this week

LOL.....I thought you wrote....'given a good pounding'

Salmon · Tennis legend

No no no!

Liam lost in three sets to Justin Butsch of the US.