It's been well over a month since Kevin McClure and I have been able to get together for a podcast, so it's no surprise that this edition is nearly an hour long. With the Eddie Herr, the Orange Bowl, the Junior Orange Bowl and the Winter Nationals to discuss, we couldn't get too deeply into the tournaments and their winners, but I think we hit most of the high points.
We did discuss Bernard Tomic's decision to play the 16s rather than the 18s at the Orange Bowl, and about the pressure he will face during the Australian Open juniors, and that was before it was announced today that he had received a wild card into the men's qualifying. Linda Pearce of The Age has the story here.
The first of the three major ITF junior tournaments in Australia has progressed to the quarterfinals. Top seed Ryan Harrison lost in the second round, but No. 6 seed Ty Trombetta is still alive. No U.S. girls are competing.
The acceptances for the Australian Open Juniors, published last week, suggest that the trip is too far and too expensive to draw many U.S. competitors. American boys in the main draw are Harrison, Trombetta, Bradley Klahn and Mateusz Kecki, with Bob Van Overbeek and Alex Domijan listed as qualifiers. The U.S. girls are even fewer. Madison Brengle and Alexa Guarachi are in the main, with Lauren McHale, Danielle Mills and Monica Yajima in qualifying.
Of the ITF Top Ten, only three boys--Cesar Ramirez (4), Jerzy Janowicz (5) and Daniel Evans (10) and four girls--defending champion Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (2), Ksenia Lykina (8), Nikola Hofmanova (9) and Brengle (10) are playing the Australian Open Junior Championships, which has difficulty drawing fields comparable to those at other junior slams.
Junior Orange Bowl 14s champion George Morgan is profiled by The Telegraph which explains his next step as an audience with Paul Annacone at the LTA's Roehampton Training Centre. There can't be a British tennis article without a reference to Andy Murray of course, but does anyone else think this sentence is a little off?
When Murray won the same title for under-12s he said it was only then that he realised he could make it as a player.
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