09-12-2023, 01:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2023, 01:24 PM by StanfordMatt.)
I don't follow our women's team nearly as closely as I do the men but I would echo CT's sentiments regarding junior rankings. There is no need to look futher for a clear example than Ana's brother, Axel Geller.
I'm not familiar with Ana's junior career, but when Axel arrived at Stanford in 2018 he was the #1 ranked junior in the world. Many expected him to back out of his Stanford commitment and go pro. He was fresh off of a Wimbledon doubles title and had reached the singles finals at both the US Open and Wimbledon (where he lost a tight match to current #21 in the ATP Alejandro Davidovich Fokina). Naively, I expected him to mop up his college competition with 6-0, 6-0 scorelines as he cruised to multiple NCAA individual titles. This could not have been further from the case. To put it mildly, his college playing career was an abject failure considering his junior accolades. He barely cracked the NCAA top 100 in singles ranking his freshman year and by his grad year he had fallen to #3 in the singles lineup for a team that was decidedly mediocre by Stanford's historical standards.
I hope Hui does not follow a similar trajectory!
I'm not familiar with Ana's junior career, but when Axel arrived at Stanford in 2018 he was the #1 ranked junior in the world. Many expected him to back out of his Stanford commitment and go pro. He was fresh off of a Wimbledon doubles title and had reached the singles finals at both the US Open and Wimbledon (where he lost a tight match to current #21 in the ATP Alejandro Davidovich Fokina). Naively, I expected him to mop up his college competition with 6-0, 6-0 scorelines as he cruised to multiple NCAA individual titles. This could not have been further from the case. To put it mildly, his college playing career was an abject failure considering his junior accolades. He barely cracked the NCAA top 100 in singles ranking his freshman year and by his grad year he had fallen to #3 in the singles lineup for a team that was decidedly mediocre by Stanford's historical standards.
I hope Hui does not follow a similar trajectory!