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Donald Young achieved his dream of becoming Junior Wimbledon Boys’ Champion with a straight-sets victory over the number one seed from Belarus, Vladimir Ignatik.
The left-hander from the USA was determined to win the title today, immediately breaking Ignatik in the opening game, timing his returns of serve to perfection and out-rallying his opponent. His carefully placed groundstrokes were also inflicting damage on Ignatik.
The 16-year-old Belarussian had the difficult job of chasing Young throughout the rest of the set but once he had started to keep his powerful groundstrokes in play he began to hurt the American. Slowly he started to close the 3-1 deficit in games with his awesome power.
The second break point on Young’s serve in the sixth game signalled to the Court 3 crowd that Ignatik was starting to dictate the rallies. He was frustrating the American with his high intensity baseline game that has seen him cut through the strong field of juniors here during The Championships.
Both players were using all their experience that they have gained winning their previous grand slam titles by saving their best tennis for the latter part of the set. Young immediately broke Ignatik, a French Open winner, to edge ahead 4-3 only for the number one seed to halt Young in his tracks to go 5-4 up, forcing the third seed to hold his serve or crash out of the set.
The wonderful skill and craft that has served Young well over the years of his junior apprenticeship allowed him to seize control of the final once again, putting an end to Ignatik’s revival. He broke the Belarusian in the 11th game and continuing to serve superbly well to take the set 7-5.
The momentum was swinging back towards Young and he regained control of the rallies, anticipating his opponent’s attacks well and playing with more freedom.
Young’s body language in comparison to Ignatik’s was far more relaxed and he was hitting his shots with greater conviction. Most importantly, he was hitting more first serves in and reading his opponent’s serve better. This allowed him to engineer 12 break points throughout the match and he converted six of them.
Within 29 minutes, Young had wrapped up the second set 6-1 and was presented with the Junior Boys’ trophy, claiming his second junior grand slam title since winning the Australian Open juniors in 2005.
After the match, Young was happy to have won, saying: “ It feels great, it’s awesome to have won. I felt I was the main target in the tournament, being the highest ranked player in the pros’ tour out there. So I had to go out there and deal with that pressure. In the final I just tried to keep a lot of first serves in play and tried to keep in the rallies and see what happened.”
Donald Young has a junior doubles semi-final match to play and admitted that he was thinking about it during his final. “I was thinking out there that I didn’t want the match to go to three sets because I have maybe two doubles matches today. But fortunately I won the first set, which was the key to the match, giving me the chance to grow from that moment on to win.”
Written by Michael Burke-Velji
The left-hander from the USA was determined to win the title today, immediately breaking Ignatik in the opening game, timing his returns of serve to perfection and out-rallying his opponent. His carefully placed groundstrokes were also inflicting damage on Ignatik.
The 16-year-old Belarussian had the difficult job of chasing Young throughout the rest of the set but once he had started to keep his powerful groundstrokes in play he began to hurt the American. Slowly he started to close the 3-1 deficit in games with his awesome power.
The second break point on Young’s serve in the sixth game signalled to the Court 3 crowd that Ignatik was starting to dictate the rallies. He was frustrating the American with his high intensity baseline game that has seen him cut through the strong field of juniors here during The Championships.
Both players were using all their experience that they have gained winning their previous grand slam titles by saving their best tennis for the latter part of the set. Young immediately broke Ignatik, a French Open winner, to edge ahead 4-3 only for the number one seed to halt Young in his tracks to go 5-4 up, forcing the third seed to hold his serve or crash out of the set.
The wonderful skill and craft that has served Young well over the years of his junior apprenticeship allowed him to seize control of the final once again, putting an end to Ignatik’s revival. He broke the Belarusian in the 11th game and continuing to serve superbly well to take the set 7-5.
The momentum was swinging back towards Young and he regained control of the rallies, anticipating his opponent’s attacks well and playing with more freedom.
Young’s body language in comparison to Ignatik’s was far more relaxed and he was hitting his shots with greater conviction. Most importantly, he was hitting more first serves in and reading his opponent’s serve better. This allowed him to engineer 12 break points throughout the match and he converted six of them.
Within 29 minutes, Young had wrapped up the second set 6-1 and was presented with the Junior Boys’ trophy, claiming his second junior grand slam title since winning the Australian Open juniors in 2005.
After the match, Young was happy to have won, saying: “ It feels great, it’s awesome to have won. I felt I was the main target in the tournament, being the highest ranked player in the pros’ tour out there. So I had to go out there and deal with that pressure. In the final I just tried to keep a lot of first serves in play and tried to keep in the rallies and see what happened.”
Donald Young has a junior doubles semi-final match to play and admitted that he was thinking about it during his final. “I was thinking out there that I didn’t want the match to go to three sets because I have maybe two doubles matches today. But fortunately I won the first set, which was the key to the match, giving me the chance to grow from that moment on to win.”
Written by Michael Burke-Velji
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