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Samuel Groth: The Forgotten Australian

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#1 ·
I heared about his big win against Mark Philippoussis and thought he deserves his own thread. So here it is.

Groth's bio:

Birthdate: 19-Oct-87
Birthplace: Narrandera, Australia
Residence: Melbourne, Australia
Height: N/A
Weight: 205 lbs (93 kg)
Plays: Right-handed
Turned Pro: N/A
Coach: N/A

Current ATP Ranking - Singles: 342
Career High ATP Ranking - Singles: 341 (10-Dec-07)
Current ATP Race - Singles:
Current Stanford ATP Doubles Ranking: 296
Career High Stanford ATP Doubles Ranking: 296 (10-Dec-07)

And, if you want to see a video of him playing against Chris Guccione, here's the link:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_WyjYNKkOmc
 
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#58 ·
Good win against Dancevic. I think that if he is at his peak he can win a few matches this Australian summer.
 
#61 ·
yeah Groth should have got the main draw w/c over Tomic.



Mcenzie has weapons his speed and his heart, yeah help Verryth ,he is big and strong,
but don't worry there he and Tomic have had more help than anyone for the past 6 years,

If we want depth

I say help a bunch of them, and stop helping so few....

Thats where they have gone wrong for years, tunnel vision...

Great to see Joe win today.... he's a champ
 
#65 · (Edited)
Saw Groth play at the wildcard play off in Dec and thought that he was much improved. I saw him play last year and thought that he was a one trick wonder (i.e the serve), however this year felt that his ground strokes had improved enormously. Shame he lost second round of qualies, I'm sure given the opportunity he will do better as he finds his feet at this level
 
#66 ·
Interesting to see that he is playing at the Auckland qualies. He has a fairly nice draw with Borvanov in the first round although it is likely he will come across Reynolds in the second match. The other half of his section doesn't look overly strong so if he could account for Reynolds he would probably be a real big chance of going through to the main draw which would be great.
 
#69 ·
I saw his match at the AO against Fish. He played well in the first 3 sets. I hope he plays in the challengers in OZ in the coming weeks.
 
#70 ·
Probably won't as he and Gajdosova are getting married in the next few weeks.
 
#76 ·
Nice win by Groth in the second round against Kumantsov who was coming of the Sunrise Challenger where he beat Becker and Levine and a futures final where he retired injured.
 
#77 ·
Into the quarter finals now against Nathan Thompson which is also winnable. Nathan is a lovely guy and a very handy player but at his best Samuel should come through with a win. The clay court season in Spain was a bit of a disappointment but he seems to have found some confidence again and he believes he is hitting the ball well which is great.
 
#79 ·
:woohoo: Sam is into the final after defeating Todero.
 
#81 ·
And Sam won the final after Witten retired. Great week and hopefully he can go and do well in the challenger this week.
 
#83 ·
:woohoo: Sam has continued his good form and has made the semis of the Baton Rouge challenger where he has a winnable match against Rajeev Ram.
 
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