Jeson Patrombon, Oliver Hudson move ahead in Boys’ Singles – Wimbledon Championships 2011
Boys’ singles event took off at Wimbledon Championships on Monday, with 13thseed Jeson Patrombon of Philippines winning his matchup against the German opponent, Julian Lenz, to clear the first round.
Being played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, the contest displayed quality tennis from the two teenagers. Patrombon took two hours to wrap up victory at 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, to enter the
second round of the Grand Slam tournament.
The German had a brilliant beginning to the matchup and drew first blood by bagging the opener in 34 minutes of play. Lenz failed to sustain the winning momentum in the later parts of the game and dropped the following two set
to the crafty Filipino to let him away with victory.
The overall match statistics showed the German’s superiority over Patrombon in almost every segment of the game but it was the sheer brilliance of the Filipino, who kept clinching crucial points in the game and eventually come
out as the winner in the end. Both boys broke their opponent’s serve three times each but Lenz committed way too many mistakes, which cost him the match. He conceded 44 unforced errors, including five costly double faults on critical occasions in the matchup.
Patrombon dropped serve twice to lose the opener but bounced back very strongly to reel off the next two sets at 6-4, 6-4, and registered an assertive victory to reach the second round draws. The Filipino will face either Toby
Martin of Great Britain or the Belgian competitor, Kimmer Coppejans in the next encounter later this week.
Brit wildcard, Oliver Hudson, was the other one who won his contest against Wayne Montgomery of South Africa, to make it into the second round of the Wimbledon Championships on Sunday as well. He took down the South African in
a three-set thriller, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, in one hour and fifty four minutes of play.
Despite of an amazing serve accuracy of 82 per cent, Montgomery failed to collect sufficient points to take down his opponent in the game. He barely committed five unforced errors in the contest, as compared to Hudson’s 25, yet
finishing on the losing side in the end.
The Brit took the opener in 33 minutes but Montgomery fought back into the game by winning the second set and levelled the matchup at 1-1. Some minor mistakes on part of the South African let Hudson seal victory in the hard-fought
third set at 7-5.
He will face the winner of the match between Dennis Novak and the second seed Thiago Moura Monteiro of Brazil in the next round of Wimbledon Championships Boys’ category.
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