View of The 2010 HSBC Road To Wimbledon
We have arrived at the quarter-finals stage here at HSBC Road To Wimbledon. On an exceptional morning at the All England Club, the players are beginning to arrive at Aorangi Pavillion ready for their biggest match so far.
In the boys, the number one seed from Gloucestershire, Christopher Morrow, and number two, Lucas Taylor of Middlesex are the only seeded players to have made it this far while in the girls the top five seeds are all through to the business end of the 14 & under challenge.
The boy faced with the task of a duel with the number one boy for a place in the semi-finals comes from Andy Murray’s County, the North of Scotland. Russell Graham is yet to drop a set in the knockout stage and is proving to be a force here at the All England Club.
Another Scot, Reuben Henry, representing the East of Scotland defeated the third seed in the previous round and faces a highly confident Northumberland kid, John Boden, who is one of the form players here at Wimbledon, dropping just 7 games in the group stages, and just as miserly in the knockout stages by only giving up ten games in his two matches.
Lincolnshire’s Joe Woolley has won two out of the last three tournaments he has entered over the summer and is yet to drop a set here at Wimbledon. The top 14 & under boy from Lincolnshire faces Oxfordshires finest, Giles Waterson, who qualified through the school and County stages without dropping a game and who has won his last three LTA tournaments.
Lucas Taylor the second seed is still on course for the final and admits to feeling like a professional out on the Wimbledon courts. He survived a three sets nail biter against Suffolk’s Darren Kappala-Ramsamy in the previous round and faces another Suffolk kid, Henry Patten, who was incredibly nervous in his first match on Monday but has learned to relax and is ready for his toughest challenge today at Wimbledon.
