USA Teams Win First Junior Fed Cup and Davis Cup matches; LTA Suspends Two Top Juniors
Today marked the start of the Junior Fed Cup and Junior Davis Cup competitions in Italy, and the U.S. teams, both of whom are No. 4 seeds, had no trouble in their opening matches. Frank Carleton, playing No. 1, and Bo Seal, playing No. 2, both won in straight sets over Finland and the doubles team of Seal and Lawrence Formentera won in three sets for the 3-0 win. No. 1 Coco Vandeweghe and No. 2 Asia Muhammed won their matches against the Czech Republic easily, and Lauren Embree and Muhammed also won the doubles in straight sets. The four winners of the round robin competition will advance to the semifinals.
The girls take on Paraguay Wednesday, while the boys will face China. For the first day wrap up, see the itftennis website.
And the big news in Great Britain the past two days hasn't been Henman's retirement or Great Britain's advance to the World Group in Davis Cup. It's been the LTA's suspension of two of their top juniors for "unprofessional" conduct. If you've ever doubted that young tennis players are held to a much higher standard of behavior than other teenagers, this should convince you. And if there are juniors reading this, you might be wise to lock your favorite social networking profile, especially if you are going to be attending the new USTA National Training Center in Boca.
The Scotsman had a story today on the aftermath. Whether this is really a "crossroads" in British tennis remains to be seen.
4 comments:
haha thats the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. and kind of ironic too considering that practically every junior player in the US has a facebook, and a lot of them have stuff even worse than that on them...
Wow the wteam is doing great agaisnt Finland. i am glad that Formentera was called on the team he has a great game.
tenniskidd,
I wonder if you're thinking of the same people I am. Saw one of our potential recruits mspace and eating pizza and getting drunk wasnt half of what she'd done.
junior daviscuper lawrence formentera against china was in great form and so with f. carlton and bo seals in the doubles. definetely they are some of the u.s. boys to be watched in the future. and did not l. formentera beat this talked about player in Great Britain d. rice in the junior us open first round rencently?
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