Current Boys World Junior Rankings

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Al Woods

To find the latest tennis world rankings for the women, men, girls or boys just place the cursor over “CURRENT RANKINGS” at the top if this page in the row of boxes under the heading for this website TENNIS: OnCourtAdvantage.com. Then you can select the rankings for the players that YOU want to see from the drop down menu.

The current Top 10 Singles World Rankings on the boy’s world junior 18 and under rankings (known as the ITF Junior Rankings), as at 29 November 2010 are:

1,148.75 Juan Sebastian Gomez from Columbia – ATP rank No.811 (photo above)
1020.00 Marton Fucsovics from Hungary – ATP rank No.1,420
922.50 Jiri Vesely from Czech Republic – ATP rank No.1,226
913.75 Damir Dzumhur from Bosnia/Herzegovina – ATP rank No.1,014
875.00 Tiago Fernandes from Brazil – ATP rank No.582
835.00 Denis Kudla from the USA – ATP rank No.499
813.75 Duilio Beretta from Peru – ATP rank No.933
782.50 Augustin Velotti from Argentina – ATP rank No.535
765.00 Mate Pavic from Croatia – ATP rank = No.1,420
760.00 Roberto Quiroz from Ecuador – NO ATP ranking

The number prior to the player’s name is their ranking points total.

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Point and Laugh, Boys: Boise State Just Choked

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Al Woods

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Well, at least one pack of ass clowns wearing orange and blue went down today. Boise State just pissed away a big lead and lost in overtime to Nevada after the Boise kicker missed two chip-shot field goals, one to win the game in regulation and the other to open the first overtime period. I guess you just don’t walk into, ah, who the hell am I kidding, I don’t know where Nevada plays even though the girl just told me five minutes ago.

Anyway, Boise totally deserves to be in the national championship game, and why hasn’t Kellen Moore gotten more Heisman Trophy buzz? Look, they beat Virginia Tech – Virginia Tech!!! Perennial ACC powerhouse — and they’ve been beating everybody in the WAC by like 50 points a game. Why can’t you people respect the sheer awesomeness of this team? This is an even bigger snub than when Marshall didn’t get to play FSU in 1999.

But seriously, though, make sure you rush out and buy Dan Wetzel’s “Death to the BCS” about how pure greed and elitist power-brokers are keeping deserving teams like Boise from earning their rightful place in the national championship game. Hey, you’ve gotta wipe your ass with something, and unfortunately I’m betting there is a toilet paper shortage in the state of Alabama right now.

Roll ‘Bama Roll

Arsene Wenger Teaches His Boys To Fight Back

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Al Woods

If there were any doubts whether Arsenal was serious about contending for the Premier League title this season, they were all washed away Sunday with a convincing 3-0 victory against Manchester City at Eastlands.

Arsenal created some luck in the first five minutes after an inch-perfect through ball forced Dedryck Boyata to commit a foul. The result was a red card for the young Belgian and the tide of the game quickly turned in Arsenal’s favor.

The match was far from over, but Arsenal continued to play sensible football and deservedly took the lead after some beautiful passing that exploited poor back-tracking by Gareth Barry for Samir Nasri to score the opening. However yet again, Manchester City made another defensive mistake when Vincent Kompany fouled Cesc Fabregas in the box which resulted in a penalty. Arsenal failed to make it 2-0 when Fabregas’s penalty was brilliantly saved by Joe Hart. But City was unable to take advantage of the lifeline that Hart handed them.

In the second half, Alex Song made it 2-0 after another defensive mistake, this time from Wayne Bridge who failed to clear the ball and instead placed it into Song’s bath to toepoke in a decisive goal.

Then late on, when the match was out of City’s reach, Niklas Bendtner put the third killer goal into the back of the net.

While Arsenal put on an impressive performance, City will be kicking itself for not making this a closer match. The accuracy of Manchester City’s headers and shots on goal were poor. After Tevez was removed due to an injury, City lacked the direct approach that opened Arsenal’s defense up. Instead they sprayed the ball around but were unable to penetrate Arsenal’s midfield or defense.

Despite City’s mistakes, Arsenal showed a profound maturity Sunday that has been missing for quite some time. If they push on from here, they have a very good chance of challenging Chelsea for the title. There’s still a long way to go, but so far so good for Wenger’s boys.

Speaking of Wenger’s boys, hats off to Jon Horner and Eric Beard from A Football Report blog for the excellent comic pictured above.