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Old 06-14-2010, 02:33 AM   #21
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so who was the guy that won? brian baker....young guy? never heard of him...
Brian Baker is really good. Like amazingly good. Had a ton of potential - could have been a major force in American tennis - but injury prone. It is great to see that he is out playing again.
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so who was the guy that won? brian baker....young guy? never heard of him...
He is 24 and has had at least 3 surgeries. And when I was watching him, I thought to my self..."how could anybody be better than this guy?"
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He is 24 and has had at least 3 surgeries. And when I was watching him, I thought to my self..."how could anybody be better than this guy?"
yeaaa, i talked to one of my friends that keeps up with all that, he said he had played at vandy, and would have gone pro if injury wouldn't have stopped him.
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Scoville Jenkins is in the tourney. Maybe he's getting a little frustrated not making any progress on tour. Maybe he lost some sponsorship and is playing money tournaments to make some dough.
Wow Scoville Jenkins has really fizzled out. Not that long ago he was playing Rafa in the 2nd round of the US Open losing in 3 close sets. Now he is losing in the semis of a USTA Open tourney?
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Wow Scoville Jenkins has really fizzled out. Not that long ago he was playing Rafa in the 2nd round of the US Open losing in 3 close sets. Now he is losing in the semis of a USTA Open tourney?
well barring the level was REALLy high...several top d1 players. and a guy that should be top pro if it wasn't for injury..
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He is 24 and has had at least 3 surgeries. And when I was watching him, I thought to my self..."how could anybody be better than this guy?"
He had wins over players like Warwinka, Djokovic, Karlovic, etc.. So sad he got injured. He won this tourney pretty easily from the looks of it.
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yeaaa, i talked to one of my friends that keeps up with all that, he said he had played at vandy, and would have gone pro if injury wouldn't have stopped him.

are u sure Brian Baker played for Vandy?? I though Brian turned pro as a teen.
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are u sure Brian Baker played for Vandy?? I though Brian turned pro as a teen.
dunno, just what i heard...i googled his name, to see if what i was told was reliable and nothing came up at all...so i just went with it.
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are u sure Brian Baker played for Vandy?? I though Brian turned pro as a teen.
He turned pro right after high school. He lost to Moya at the '04 US Open in 4 sets. Topped out in the 170s in the rankings.

Edit: He also beat Gaudio at the '05 US Open, 1st rd. lost to Malisse in 4 sets the next rd.

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anyone gonna be there this year (2011)?
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well barring the level was REALLy high...several top d1 players. and a guy that should be top pro if it wasn't for injury..
Wondering what Jenkins is doing theses days... It appears he is out of professional tennis and last year took a coaching job Kennesaw State University.
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Wondering what Jenkins is doing theses days... It appears he is out of professional tennis and last year took a coaching job Kennesaw State University.


Brian Baker was freaky good as a junior and was on an upward professional trajectory when he had his first knee injury and surgery in the fall of '05'. That cut short his pro career. He turned pro out of high school and never played college tennis. I did hear at one point he was a volunteer assistant at Vandy. If you want to be impressed look at his ITF profile and use the calendar filters going back to around 2000-2008 or so. Be sure to also look at his junior career. He beat nearly every top pro in today's game.
http://www.itftennis.com/mens/player...ayer=100003655
He did play a few challenger level events in '07'. I even got to see him play one of those matches in Nashville. Although he looked tremendously good then, it looked to me he still hobbled a little on the knee at times. I bet he can still play serious tennis today, although just not at the pro level.


Jenkins is the assistant coach at Kennesaw State.
http://www.ksuowls.com/coaches.aspx?path=mten&
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bumping this thread for the brian baker talk before he blew up
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He is down to earth. He stood in a doorway area of that club and had I know a 10 minute conversation with my son about grips. There must have been 5 or 6 other people trying to get his attention. This was also less than 10 minutes after he had just finished a match.

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