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Sunday, May 29, 2005

French Open 2005: Previewing the Juniors (USTA.COM)

French Open 2005: Previewing the Juniors--
Sally Milano's take on the US prospects for the French juniors. I will confidently predict that the juniors will do better than their elder compatriots this year. The US has (had) 11 players in the main draw, more than even the French, who had all 8 wild cards. And that's not counting Carsten Ball, who grew up in Newport Beach, but is playing under the Australian flag at the French.

There was some curious seeding by the ITF here, (e.g. why did Andreas Haider-Maurer get promoted above his ITF 19th ranking to 8th seed?--he's already lost!) but I agree that Murray should be seeded above Young. Murray has won four Futures events on clay and trains on it and has won as many Grand Slam singles titles as Young (1).

For full French Open Junior draws click here

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Carsten Ball is very much part of the USTA and an American. The USTA just profiled him. I think the site made an error because his father was a former Aussie player. It happens a lot. The official US Open site last year had American Alex Bogomolov Jr. under the Russian flag because of his father. So add Carsten to the Yanks in Paris.

Colette Lewis said...

No, he's definitely playing as an Australian now, though I'm still stubbornly considering him both American and Australian.

Though the link is no longer active, a story I found in the Australian press back in February spelled out the details of his agreement with the Australian federation.

The headline says it all:
BACK TO FUTURE AS BALL BOY JOINS AUSTRALIA