Boys: Past Eddie Herr Champions Rankings Analysis
After perusing the past champions list of the upcoming Eddie Herr International, I decided to cross reference those champions with their highest ATP career ranking. I think Emilio Sanchez said it best in a recent interview:
"Every kid who is playing wants to be a pro. The main problem is that the spots available are very, very few. Because in tennis you only have 100 top pros and these 100 pros don't change every year. So it's not like you have 100 chances every year to be a top 100 player because many of these guys can have careers lasting seven to 10 years and only a few guys slip or get injured or retire. So you may have five spots open up in the top 100 every year. Think about that for a minute. You're talking about maybe five spots for all the young players in the world, for all of the academies, for all of the federations all over the world."
Here are the results:
Boys 18
1993 - #1 Marcelo Rios CHI
1994 - #106 Frederico Browne ARG
1995 - #47 Michal Tabara CZE
1996 - #3 Ivan Ljubicic CRO
1997 - #19 Xavier Malisse BEL
1998 - #3 David Nalbandian ARG
1999 - #1 Andy Roddick USA
2000 - #440 Luciano Vitullo ARG
2001 - #156 Bruno Echagaray MEX
2002 - #243 Florin Mergea ROM
2003 - #222 Scoville Jenkins USA
2004 - #187 Jeremy Chardy FRA
2005 - #71 Marin Cilic CRO
2006 - #705 Nicolas Santos BRA
Boys 16
1993 - #236 Stefano Cobolli ITA
1994 - #381 Ivan Rodrigo ESP
1995 - #216 Florian Allgauer ITA
1996 - #42 Irakli Labadze GEO
1997 - #244 Catalan Gard ROM
1998 - #45 Nicholas Mahut FRA
1999 - #557 Julien Maigret FRA
2000 - #166 Lamine Ouahab ALG
2001 - #1174 Alexander Skrypko BLR
2002 - #928 Gregory Ouellette USA
2003 - #192 Jesse Levine USA
2004 - #1364 Kellen Damico USA
2005 - #1377 Gonzalo Escobar ECU
2006 - #1461 Grigor Dimitrov BUL
Boys 14
1993 - #326 Kobi Ziv ISR
1994 - #92 Federico Luzzi ITA
1995 - #469 Simon Dickson GBR
1996 - #3 Guillermo Coria ARG
1997 - #203 Stephani Bohli SUI
1998 - #1024 Ivan Stelko CRO
1999 - #307 Jorge Aguilar CHI
2000 - #208 Brendan Evans USA
2001 - #1400 Clancy Shields USA
2002 - #334 Pavel Chekhov RUS
2003 - #859 Daniel Lopez PAR
2004 - Ricardis Borankis LTU
2005 - Grigor Dimitrov USA
2006 - Yasutaka Uchiyama JPN
Boys 12
2000 - #1234 Nicolas Terrera ARG
2001 - Jean Marc Bazanne HAI
2002 - Maksim Tikhomirov USA
2003 - Lasu Kukhalashvili GEO
2004 - Bernard Tomic AUS
2005 - Emmett Egger USA
2006 - Mitchell Krueger USA
"Every kid who is playing wants to be a pro. The main problem is that the spots available are very, very few. Because in tennis you only have 100 top pros and these 100 pros don't change every year. So it's not like you have 100 chances every year to be a top 100 player because many of these guys can have careers lasting seven to 10 years and only a few guys slip or get injured or retire. So you may have five spots open up in the top 100 every year. Think about that for a minute. You're talking about maybe five spots for all the young players in the world, for all of the academies, for all of the federations all over the world."
Here are the results:
Boys 18
1993 - #1 Marcelo Rios CHI
1994 - #106 Frederico Browne ARG
1995 - #47 Michal Tabara CZE
1996 - #3 Ivan Ljubicic CRO
1997 - #19 Xavier Malisse BEL
1998 - #3 David Nalbandian ARG
1999 - #1 Andy Roddick USA
2000 - #440 Luciano Vitullo ARG
2001 - #156 Bruno Echagaray MEX
2002 - #243 Florin Mergea ROM
2003 - #222 Scoville Jenkins USA
2004 - #187 Jeremy Chardy FRA
2005 - #71 Marin Cilic CRO
2006 - #705 Nicolas Santos BRA
Boys 16
1993 - #236 Stefano Cobolli ITA
1994 - #381 Ivan Rodrigo ESP
1995 - #216 Florian Allgauer ITA
1996 - #42 Irakli Labadze GEO
1997 - #244 Catalan Gard ROM
1998 - #45 Nicholas Mahut FRA
1999 - #557 Julien Maigret FRA
2000 - #166 Lamine Ouahab ALG
2001 - #1174 Alexander Skrypko BLR
2002 - #928 Gregory Ouellette USA
2003 - #192 Jesse Levine USA
2004 - #1364 Kellen Damico USA
2005 - #1377 Gonzalo Escobar ECU
2006 - #1461 Grigor Dimitrov BUL
Boys 14
1993 - #326 Kobi Ziv ISR
1994 - #92 Federico Luzzi ITA
1995 - #469 Simon Dickson GBR
1996 - #3 Guillermo Coria ARG
1997 - #203 Stephani Bohli SUI
1998 - #1024 Ivan Stelko CRO
1999 - #307 Jorge Aguilar CHI
2000 - #208 Brendan Evans USA
2001 - #1400 Clancy Shields USA
2002 - #334 Pavel Chekhov RUS
2003 - #859 Daniel Lopez PAR
2004 - Ricardis Borankis LTU
2005 - Grigor Dimitrov USA
2006 - Yasutaka Uchiyama JPN
Boys 12
2000 - #1234 Nicolas Terrera ARG
2001 - Jean Marc Bazanne HAI
2002 - Maksim Tikhomirov USA
2003 - Lasu Kukhalashvili GEO
2004 - Bernard Tomic AUS
2005 - Emmett Egger USA
2006 - Mitchell Krueger USA
4 Comments
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Comment by Rob Gurden on November 24, 2007 at 2:18pm
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Most juniors believe that if they can compete and win the top tier international junior events they can compete and be successful on the pro tour.
Let me ask you a question West.
"If success in one of the top tier junior events doesn't translate into professional success then what set of characteristics, in your opinion, translates into a healthy professional career in tennis?"
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Comment by West Nott on November 24, 2007 at 4:42pm
- I don't really have a strong opinion, I just tried to see if there was an interesting trend from past Eddie Herr Champions.
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Comment by Jerry on November 29, 2007 at 6:57am
- Nice quote. In answer to Rob Gurden, the quality needed is 'stickability'. The ability to lose, travel; the grind.
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Comment by 5.0Player on December 8, 2007 at 1:08am
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The most interesting thing that I noticed is that as the age group goes up, the more likely the player's chances are to make it as a pro.
For example, a lot of the B18s winners made it. Less so in the B16s, only one in the B14s and zero in the B12s have gotten anywhere.
Therefore, winning the B18s is a much better indicator of success than winning in the younger age groups. This actually tends to make sense.
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