All Discussions Tagged 'or' - Tennisopolis : Tennis Social Network2024-03-28T18:04:02Zhttp://tennisopolis.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=or&feed=yes&xn_auth=noYoungest in History Wins the Orange Bowl!tag:tennisopolis.com,2013-12-16:1869403:Topic:11023132013-12-16T16:57:50.705ZMark / The Mayorhttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/archibot
<p>This just in!</p>
<p>Here's some young players to keep our eyes on:</p>
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<p><em>The roars, the fist pumps and the racket spike after Francis Tiafoe's ace sealed a 7-6(3), 0-6, 6-3 victory over Stefan Kozlov in the Metropolia Orange Bowl final signaled just how much the championship meant to him.</em><br></br> <br></br> <em>Although only 15, Tiafoe is no rookie when it comes to big tournaments on big stages, having won Les Petits As, the prestigious 14-and-under tournament in Tarbes France in…</em></p>
<p>This just in!</p>
<p>Here's some young players to keep our eyes on:</p>
<p></p>
<p><em>The roars, the fist pumps and the racket spike after Francis Tiafoe's ace sealed a 7-6(3), 0-6, 6-3 victory over Stefan Kozlov in the Metropolia Orange Bowl final signaled just how much the championship meant to him.</em><br/> <br/> <em>Although only 15, Tiafoe is no rookie when it comes to big tournaments on big stages, having won Les Petits As, the prestigious 14-and-under tournament in Tarbes France in 2012, and more recently, the Pan American Closed, an ITF Grade B1 event in October, beating Americans in the finals, just as he did Sunday.</em><br/> <br/> <em>Yet beating No. 4 seed Kozlov--also 15, but long the alpha dog of the 1998 birth year they share--in front of...</em></p>
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<p>Take it away Zoo Tennis:</p>
<p><a href="http://tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/2013/12/tiafoe-makes-history-with-orange-bowl.html">http://tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/2013/12/tiafoe-makes-history-with-orange-bowl.html</a></p> Any Plano 3.5 or 4.0 interested in a match (singles/doubles) Thurs/Fri early morning?tag:tennisopolis.com,2011-07-06:1869403:Topic:6747982011-07-06T18:46:22.223ZGuy Chethttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/GuyChet
<p>Any Plano 3.5 or 4.0 interested in a match (singles/doubles) Thurs/Fri early morning?</p>
<p>I'm located in west Plano, but can drive a bit.</p>
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<p>Guy.</p>
<p>Any Plano 3.5 or 4.0 interested in a match (singles/doubles) Thurs/Fri early morning?</p>
<p>I'm located in west Plano, but can drive a bit.</p>
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<p>Guy.</p> Is the USTA Player Development Program failing?tag:tennisopolis.com,2009-06-20:1869403:Topic:3327372009-06-20T23:39:43.232ZUs Tennis Parentshttp://tennisopolis.com/profile/UsTennisParents
The ultimate goal is to produce Grand Slam winners, you can’t produce them. The USTA high performance program is for a handful of players and it is not supporting the group of our best American players.<br />
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The whole world is training elite tennis athletes and the USTA can not come up with a program that is working. A program that is focusing on our top American junior talents. Junior tennis athletes that don’t have the financial support, don’t have a good national ranking and are in most cases…
The ultimate goal is to produce Grand Slam winners, you can’t produce them. The USTA high performance program is for a handful of players and it is not supporting the group of our best American players.<br />
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The whole world is training elite tennis athletes and the USTA can not come up with a program that is working. A program that is focusing on our top American junior talents. Junior tennis athletes that don’t have the financial support, don’t have a good national ranking and are in most cases never been looked at. There is a big difference between the official USTA ranking and the real performance, check out the USTA ranking and compare it with the tennisrecruiting.net ranking. The USTA ranking just measures points per tournament, however the tennisrecruiting.net measure “the performance strength”. In other words the USTA TOP 10 ranked juniors may not be the best talented players with potential. Continue to read at <a href="http://ustennisparents.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/is-the-usta-tennis-development-program-failing/">http://ustennisparents.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/is-the-usta-tennis-development-program-failing/</a>