saint lard Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 (edited) The current British Wimbledon junior champion will play in another grandslam junior final in Australia tonight while we are having a kip. Good luck to her. Edited 30 January, 2009 by saint lard
Saint_Jonny Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 Come on, I cant be the only one wishing she was of legal age... *prepares for a lynching*
Saint_clark Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 Come on, I cant be the only one wishing she was of legal age... *prepares for a lynching* LOL, only another year to wait Jonny If you can get her to Sweden you'll be laughing.
hypochondriac Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 Come on, I cant be the only one wishing she was of legal age... *prepares for a lynching* No thanks. Wish we were more like Russia.
Jesus Reigned Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 Apparently she'll become world number 1 if she wins. Good to have a promising female prospect, and at least she'll want England to win the football World Cup... Good luck to her.
Saintandy666 Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 (edited) Apparently she'll become world number 1 if she wins. Good to have a promising female prospect, and at least she'll want England to win the football World Cup... Good luck to her. Andy Murray was joking... Taking the **** out of the whole scotland media thing. Why can't people see this?! He actually expressed dissapointment when England went out of the world cup. Edited 31 January, 2009 by Saintandy666
Jesus Reigned Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 Andy Murray was joking... Taking the **** out of the whole scotland media thing. Why can't people see this?! He actually expressed dissapointed when England went out of the world cup. I do know that buddy, take a chill pill!
hypochondriac Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 Andy Murray was joking... Taking the **** out of the whole scotland media thing. Why can't people see this?! He actually expressed dissapointed when England went out of the world cup. I don't like Murray because I think most of his tennis is too negative. Absolutely nothing like watching Federer and Nadal (and as of today Verdasco!)
jawillwill Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 Firstly, I'd like to say Laura Robson is even less english than Murray. She's Australian. But, I'm more than happy to adopt her as a British player, and think she has a good career ahead of her. After all, we all know what happened to the last British girl that won the Wimbledon and Australian open girls singles don't we? That's right, Annabel Croft became arguably the second greatest ever presenter of Treasure Hunt. I don't like Murray because I think most of his tennis is too negative. Absolutely nothing like watching Federer and Nadal (and as of today Verdasco!) That may have been true about a year or 2 ago, but if you know much about tennis and have been watching him since Wimbledon last year it's easy to see he's turning into a great player (his match last week against Verdasco was very poor by his standards....taking nothing away from Verdasco though) and I honestly believe (all British bias aside) he's one of the most entertaining players on the tour today. I doubt he'll ever win Wimbledon, but am almost certain he'll win either the US or Australian Open within the next 5 years.
saint_stevo Posted 30 January, 2009 Posted 30 January, 2009 She is hot, i mis-read something on the Sky Sports website earlier which got me excited http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12110_4872834,00.html Topples not Topless. Damn it
hypochondriac Posted 31 January, 2009 Posted 31 January, 2009 Firstly, I'd like to say Laura Robson is even less english than Murray. She's Australian. But, I'm more than happy to adopt her as a British player, and think she has a good career ahead of her. After all, we all know what happened to the last British girl that won the Wimbledon and Australian open girls singles don't we? That's right, Annabel Croft became arguably the second greatest ever presenter of Treasure Hunt. That may have been true about a year or 2 ago, but if you know much about tennis and have been watching him since Wimbledon last year it's easy to see he's turning into a great player (his match last week against Verdasco was very poor by his standards....taking nothing away from Verdasco though) and I honestly believe (all British bias aside) he's one of the most entertaining players on the tour today. I doubt he'll ever win Wimbledon, but am almost certain he'll win either the US or Australian Open within the next 5 years. Please don't patronise me. I watch a lot of tennis and in my opinion a lot of the games he plays are incredibly defensive. Nadal and federer are on a different level especially in the slams. He will probably win 1 in the next 5 years but I still find him dull in comparison to others
Saint_clark Posted 31 January, 2009 Posted 31 January, 2009 Please don't patronise me. I watch a lot of tennis and in my opinion a lot of the games he plays are incredibly defensive. Nadal and federer are on a different level especially in the slams. He will probably win 1 in the next 5 years but I still find him dull in comparison to others You're right of course, but I don't understand why he plays like that. I think he CAN play attacking tennis, so perhaps it is down to his coach?
hamster Posted 31 January, 2009 Posted 31 January, 2009 She lost Another one for the English Tennis Hall of Fame then. Seriously yhtough, it would be soooo great to have a world beater one day.
hypochondriac Posted 31 January, 2009 Posted 31 January, 2009 You're right of course, but I don't understand why he plays like that. I think he CAN play attacking tennis, so perhaps it is down to his coach? For me he doesn't have the power to dictate a point like rafa (nadal is wonderful at turning defense into attack in one shot.) nor does he have the shotmaking ability of fed. He is however fantastic at reading shots. He plays defensively because it will beat a lot of players. It's like the final of the snooker uk champs with the brilliant ronnie against the terribly dull perry
bridge too far Posted 31 January, 2009 Posted 31 January, 2009 Another one for the English Tennis Hall of Fame then. Seriously yhtough, it would be soooo great to have a world beater one day. I think she HAS won a Grand Slam, though: Britain's Laura Robson missed out on a second junior Grand Slam title by losing to Russian Ksenia Pervak in the girls' final at the Australian Open. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7861317.stm
benjii Posted 31 January, 2009 Posted 31 January, 2009 Please don't patronise me. I watch a lot of tennis and in my opinion a lot of the games he plays are incredibly defensive. Nadal and federer are on a different level especially in the slams. He will probably win 1 in the next 5 years but I still find him dull in comparison to others Nadal is one of the most defensive players on the tour. He's a counter-attacker the same as Hewitt, Murray etc.. Federer is by far the most entertaining player. Followed by Santoro for sheer oddness.
benjii Posted 31 January, 2009 Posted 31 January, 2009 I feel obliged to point out that Martin Lee was the number 1 junior in the world at one point.
jawillwill Posted 31 January, 2009 Posted 31 January, 2009 Please don't patronise me. I watch a lot of tennis and in my opinion a lot of the games he plays are incredibly defensive. Nadal and federer are on a different level especially in the slams. He will probably win 1 in the next 5 years but I still find him dull in comparison to others Sorry, that honestly wasn't supposed to sound patronising. I was just saying that Murray did used to play very defensively a lot of the time (even Federer used to moan about how boring his tactics were the first few times they played). But now, one of Murrays strengths is that he can swich almost instantly from defense to attack and he now was a wide range of shots at his disposal. People often moan that he plays too many drop shots, but I thiink it's his favourite shot and probably the most difficult for opposing playerrs to return when he gets them right. He also seems to find angles which don't even look physically possible a lot of the time. Not to mention his serve which seems to improve every time I watch him... Having said that, no one will ever come close to Federer as far as I'm concerned. Bloody brilliant player. Nadal is a **** (imo of course).
hamster Posted 1 February, 2009 Posted 1 February, 2009 I think she HAS won a Grand Slam, though: Britain's Laura Robson missed out on a second junior Grand Slam title by losing to Russian Ksenia Pervak in the girls' final at the Australian Open. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7861317.stm b, i mean an absolute top level champion playing against grown ups and winning Wimbledon, the ones that every one knows the name of. I know that to the tennis officianados like yourself and hypo, we have probably had quite a few good players, but they are known for being quite good and not the best in the world. We can produce them in football, Rugger, Athletics Motor Sport and so many other disciplines. Why not tennis?
saint_stevo Posted 1 February, 2009 Posted 1 February, 2009 b, i mean an absolute top level champion playing against grown ups and winning Wimbledon, the ones that every one knows the name of. I know that to the tennis officianados like yourself and hypo, we have probably had quite a few good players, but they are known for being quite good and not the best in the world. We can produce them in football, Rugger, Athletics Motor Sport and so many other disciplines. Why not tennis? Because it is Elitist
Saintandy666 Posted 1 February, 2009 Posted 1 February, 2009 It's alot harder to get to the top of the game in tennis than in football. Remember, one person is the top in tennis, in football, you have quite alot of people at the top of the game if you like. (AKA those in first teams of the big clubs).
saintwarwick Posted 1 February, 2009 Posted 1 February, 2009 She lost Another one for the English Tennis Hall of Fame then. Seriously yhtough, it would be soooo great to have a world beater one day. She's 15 and the current wimbledon junior champion, she recently beat the number one seed on her way to the final of the Australian open (Laura was the number five seed) and she eventually lost to the number three seed. I think we may have a potential world beater on our hands to follow in the footsteps of Murray (hopefully).
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