The Long Road Ahead

"To achieve their sporting goals New Zealand's top young tennis players must follow the domestic and international circuit around the globe. The cost of attending these events presents a barrier in achieving their potential, and there are very few avenues of support funding available to help them in these emerging years. Tennis players develop at different rates and much can be gained by battling away on the Futures and Challenger tours. This process takes time and it is important for New Zealand's young players not to be discouraged if success is not immediate. For that reason, on their behalf, we ask your help." - David Frank (Tennis Northern CEO)

Wednesday 20 July 2011

My first point...

Hello, 
Since you last heard from me I have had some great experiences. Including getting my ATP point.
When I first arrived in England for the grass tournaments, I had never played any matches on grass before, so was tough to keep up at first but got used to it eventually.
I had a rough couple of weeks in quallies, but then in the third tournament in a place called Frinton on sea, I met up with my coach Nick Turner. Nick helped push me through the qualifying rounds and into main draw where I managed to take down an Italian player ranked somewhere in the 900s, this gave me my first ATP ranking point. Was so good having Nick, his family and my good friend Marvin Barker there supporting me... big thanks to those mentioned. In the second round I faced Great Britain number 3 and Davis Cup player Daniel Evans who is ranked 300 and a very good player, I lost that match but took a lot from it!
This week in Dublin I qualified and played another Brit who is ranked about 640. I had a good first set but lost 3-6 6-4 6-1.
Feeling much more confident and ready to compete with the much higher ranked players after the last couple of weeks.
Bettink out!