We keep saying how Harrison, Tomic, Dimitrov struggle to make gains. Well, I looked at the old 2002 Orange Bowl draws. THe big players back then have also struggled. Or never made it.
In the l6 Boys the number one seed was Patrick Woefler of Austria – he lost first round to C Clayton of USA.
Here are the other seeds in order after Woefler… Adrian Ungur, Markus Geiger, Aliaksandr Skrypko, Brendan Evans, Florin Mergea, Horia Tecau, Sukhwa Young (USA), Jamil Al Agba, Jonathan Howard, Frederico Gil, Karolj Fodor, Eric Scherer, Mischa Zverev, John Isner (l5 seed), Scott Oudsema.
Mergea on the title over P Steinberger of Germany.
Other notable names in the tourney were unseeded Nico Almagro who won two rounds, Denis Istomin who lost first round to Y. Supeko of USA.
In the girls draw it was similar. Whitney Deeson of USA won the title. The seeded names are almost all unrecognizable names – top seed Beier Ko, Delia Sescioreanu, Claire Ricketts, Heidi El Tabakh, Breda Kovac, Agnes Szatmari, Theresa Logar, Caitlin Collins, you get the picture.
The big names in the draw who made it in the WTA are Andrea Petkovic who lost second round. And Meghan Moulton Levy.
The l8s was more telling. Robin Soderling won the boys over Juan Monaco and Vera Zvonareva beat Kuznetsova. Gilles Muller was top seed followed by Tipsarevic, Brian Dabul, Ouhab, Echegaray, Bohli, Vitullo, Brian Baker, Abougzir, Santiago Gonzalez, Yordan Kanev, Luka Gregorc, Paul Capdeville, Phil Petzschner and Daniel Kollerer.
Girls top seed was Marie Gaiane Mikaelian, then Kuznetsova, Bernerova, Bartoli, Harkleroad, J Jankovic, Nemeth, Zvonareva, …
Just thought I’d share this…
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Andrew Miller · October 2, 2013 at 1:52 pm
Seems like some made it, some didn’t.
As they say in the casino of U.S. investing: “Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. Past performance does not guarantee future results.”
Used to hit with one player, who I thought wasn’t good. We were same level, if not I was a little better (more upside also – taller, stronger, better groundies, better serve, better volley). But he became better, to the point that he could beat me consistently and easily. More talented? No. More committed. Got better coaching. Got more strategic. Firmed up his groundstrokes so that he could force my mistakes.
Yet more ammo for Spadea’s theory of improvement. It’s improve or die out there.
Scoop Malinowski · October 2, 2013 at 7:19 pm
It’s interesting Andrew so many of the big players of juniors, even the winners of these events like Orange Bowl do not pan out. There was a French girl who won one aorund the same time, never even saw her name once in the WTA. Some of them absolutely disappear. But they had to be very good to win an Orange Bowl. I can’t even remember the French girl’s name and I just saw it last week. It seems crazy that someone could win an Orange Bowl and just disappear.
Scoop Malinowski · October 2, 2013 at 7:20 pm
That’s what it is Andrew, you have to improve try to improve, if not, you’re done. Tennis is an awfully challenging game to play on so many levels.