spiceboy
Sep 1st, 2005, 04:04 PM
She was supposed to be New Zealand's biggest hope (before Erakovic arrived) but has played no tournaments for over a year now...
She played the 2003 junior tournaments in Australia as a 16 yo where she won the Victorian Championships and reached the quarterfinals at the Junior Australian Open before losing against Kutuzova. On her way she had great victories these weeks over players like Flipkens, Emma Laine, Katerina Bondarenko, Cetkovska, Pavic, Gojnea and Ferguson. Later in the year she even upset Sania Mirza in Wimbledon Juniors and finished the year in style winning a couple of $10K tournaments. During that time she was training in an Academy in Paris and apparently results were coming...
The following year started great too by becoming the first kiwi in years to win a match in a WTA Main Draw event when she reached the second round of Tier IV Auckland as a WC entry. Soon after that Eden reached her highest ranking of #321 WTA when she won her third $10K and reached her first $25K quarterfinal after beating Prakusya the month she turned 18.
But that was the beginning of the end and from then she had quite bad results the rest of the year losing her last match in a $10K in England against a British WC in straight sets (August 2004)
Since then nothing has been heard from her aside her doubles contribution in Fed Cup last April in India where she won one match and lost another one.
I could only find one article saying that she and her sister quitted the French Academy as it was getting pretty expensive. Her older sister Paula (less gifted) is still playing some tournaments but her ranking is around #1000.
This is the article:
<TABLE class=body id=news_table cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=5 width=450 border=0 name="news_table"><TBODY><TR><TD class=header>Marama sisters Eden and Paula part company with their tennis coach and will now be coached by their father</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD class=body>Tuesday September 21 2004 18:41</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD> </TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD>It appears the careers of two of New Zealand tennis' brightest prospects have suffered a setback.
Teenage sisters Eden and Paula Marama made a strong impression at January's ASB Classic in Auckland but have failed to improve significantly in the rankings since then.
The Paris based duo have parted company with their French coach Nicolas Copin and are now being coached by their father.
Eden Marama says it was getting too expensive to keep Copin on fulltime.
Eden has not improved her singles ranking since January and is currently ranked 341st in the world, two places behind the top ranked Kiwi Shelley Stephens.
Copin said at the start of the year that Eden would need to break into the top 200 this year if she is to make it in professional tennis.
Eden says she has had problems with a foot injury this year and that is party why her ranking has not risen.
Paula Marama is ranked 445.
Fed Cup captain Pavlina Nola is keen to speak with the sisters to find out what is going on.
Nola admits things have not gone well for them.
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http://www.netcheck.co.nz/tools/irnnewspop.asp?nutc=1095748872
She played the 2003 junior tournaments in Australia as a 16 yo where she won the Victorian Championships and reached the quarterfinals at the Junior Australian Open before losing against Kutuzova. On her way she had great victories these weeks over players like Flipkens, Emma Laine, Katerina Bondarenko, Cetkovska, Pavic, Gojnea and Ferguson. Later in the year she even upset Sania Mirza in Wimbledon Juniors and finished the year in style winning a couple of $10K tournaments. During that time she was training in an Academy in Paris and apparently results were coming...
The following year started great too by becoming the first kiwi in years to win a match in a WTA Main Draw event when she reached the second round of Tier IV Auckland as a WC entry. Soon after that Eden reached her highest ranking of #321 WTA when she won her third $10K and reached her first $25K quarterfinal after beating Prakusya the month she turned 18.
But that was the beginning of the end and from then she had quite bad results the rest of the year losing her last match in a $10K in England against a British WC in straight sets (August 2004)
Since then nothing has been heard from her aside her doubles contribution in Fed Cup last April in India where she won one match and lost another one.
I could only find one article saying that she and her sister quitted the French Academy as it was getting pretty expensive. Her older sister Paula (less gifted) is still playing some tournaments but her ranking is around #1000.
This is the article:
<TABLE class=body id=news_table cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=5 width=450 border=0 name="news_table"><TBODY><TR><TD class=header>Marama sisters Eden and Paula part company with their tennis coach and will now be coached by their father</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD class=body>Tuesday September 21 2004 18:41</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD> </TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD>It appears the careers of two of New Zealand tennis' brightest prospects have suffered a setback.
Teenage sisters Eden and Paula Marama made a strong impression at January's ASB Classic in Auckland but have failed to improve significantly in the rankings since then.
The Paris based duo have parted company with their French coach Nicolas Copin and are now being coached by their father.
Eden Marama says it was getting too expensive to keep Copin on fulltime.
Eden has not improved her singles ranking since January and is currently ranked 341st in the world, two places behind the top ranked Kiwi Shelley Stephens.
Copin said at the start of the year that Eden would need to break into the top 200 this year if she is to make it in professional tennis.
Eden says she has had problems with a foot injury this year and that is party why her ranking has not risen.
Paula Marama is ranked 445.
Fed Cup captain Pavlina Nola is keen to speak with the sisters to find out what is going on.
Nola admits things have not gone well for them.
</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
http://www.netcheck.co.nz/tools/irnnewspop.asp?nutc=1095748872