Week 25 - ATP 500 - The Aegon Championships, The Queen's Club (grass)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 25 - ATP 500 - The Aegon Championships, The Queen's Club (grass)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
JonH wrote:
Aljaz would only be one place away now. I think. WOuld he play in the event he got into first (having turned down a Queens WC?)
No sign of him in the Halle main draw. I wonder...
Fairly certain that someone mentioned he was playing Queens having made it in as a DA.

You're right, Spectator, but would you Adam & Eve it?

L32: (1) Andy Murray WR 1 (= CH) vs Aljaz Bedene WR 59 (CH = 45 in November 2015) disbelief
L32: (WC) Cam Norrie WR 230 (= CH) vs Sam Querrey (USA) WR 27 (CH = 17 in January 2011) bleh - lamb to the slaughter!

L32: Qualifier vs (WC) James Ward WR 1070 (CH = 89 in July 2015)

L32: Kyle Edmund WR 44 (CH = 40 last October) vs Qualifier

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

The draw is not on the ATP Lives scores app yet but from Twittersphere, we have

Andy v Aljaz
Cam v Sam Querrey

Kyle and James Ward will both play qualifiers.

Edit

It may not be on the ATP App yet, but obviously that didn't stop SC tracking it down and beating me to it as always. Go SC smile

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Saturday 17th of June 2017 12:36:20 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Edit
It may not be on the ATP App yet, but obviously that didn't stop SC tracking it down and beating me to it as always. Go SC

It came up just now on the live scoreboard on my laptop, Bob. wink I've been checking regularly all monring...

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Edit
It may not be on the ATP App yet, but obviously that didn't stop SC tracking it down and beating me to it as always. Go SC
It came up just now on the live scoreboard on my laptop, Bob. I've been checking regularly all monring...

I've got it too now.

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Spectator wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
JonH wrote:
Aljaz would only be one place away now. I think. WOuld he play in the event he got into first (having turned down a Queens WC?)
No sign of him in the Halle main draw. I wonder...
Fairly certain that someone mentioned he was playing Queens having made it in as a DA.
You're right, Spectator, but would you Adam & Eve it?
L32: (1) Andy Murray WR 1 (= CH) vs Aljaz Bedene WR 59 (CH = 45 in November 2015)
L32: (WC) Cam Norrie WR 230 (= CH) vs Sam Querrey (USA) WR 27 (CH = 17 in January 2011) - lamb to the slaughter!
L32: Qualifier vs (WC) James Ward WR 1070 (CH = 89 in July 2015)
L32: Kyle Edmund WR 44 (CH = 40 last October) vs Qualifier

You're allowed to make positive comments or even smile emojis to the two draws against qualifiers. Balance, balance ( as mentioned in more depth elsewhere )

Spectator · All-time great

First set to M. Chardy, 6-4. Second set ... to Mr Corrie! 7-5. Well done - one more set!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Spectator wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
JonH wrote:
Aljaz would only be one place away now. I think. WOuld he play in the event he got into first (having turned down a Queens WC?)
No sign of him in the Halle main draw. I wonder...
Fairly certain that someone mentioned he was playing Queens having made it in as a DA.
You're right, Spectator, but would you Adam & Eve it?
L32: (1) Andy Murray WR 1 (= CH) vs Aljaz Bedene WR 59 (CH = 45 in November 2015)
L32: (WC) Cam Norrie WR 230 (= CH) vs Sam Querrey (USA) WR 27 (CH = 17 in January 2011) - lamb to the slaughter!
L32: Qualifier vs (WC) James Ward WR 1070 (CH = 89 in July 2015)
L32: Kyle Edmund WR 44 (CH = 40 last October) vs Qualifier

You're allowed to make positive comments or even smile emojis to the two draws against qualifiers. Balance, balance ( as mentioned in more depth elsewhere )

I suppose I could have done with Kyle's draw, but I'm not convinced Dino will have what it takes to overcome his eventual opponent - though I'd be delighted to be proved wrong! wink

Spectator · All-time great

Interesting draws for the GB players - and good to see two good ones - but the match of the first round has to be Stan Wawrinka v Feliciano Lopez.

the addict · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Interesting draws for the GB players - and good to see two good ones - but the match of the first round has to be Stan Wawrinka v Feliciano Lopez.

Especially as Feliciano seems to be in good form, having just reached the final in Stuttgart, beating Misca Zverev in three close sets

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Just for the record, as it doesn't seem to have been posted:

QR1: (q4) Jérémy Chardy (FRA) WR 80 defeated (qWC) Ed Corrie WR 351 by 6-4 5-7 6-3 cry

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

To all the 'should have gone' posters - yes, you should !

Sitting at 11.30, I could see:

Andy and Stan practicing on the practice courts.

Far left, Frenchman P-H H giving some Italian a lesson on grass.

Just left, a truly super match of shot-making between young guns, Sharapolov and Opelka.

And, best of all, right in front, our man Liam !

And all for free

Liam's match:

Tiafoe wins the toss and puts Liam in to serve. Mistake. Liam comes out like an express train, plays a great service game, and immediately puts pressure on Frances in his next game, and breaks.

The first set was then one way. Tiafoe looked as though he hated the grass, he really wasn't reading the bounce right, kept getting caught out, and Liam played well.
In the second set, Liam played just as well (apart from maybe the tie-break). Serve was working well. Moving fine. Getting up to the ball.
All credit to Tiafoe, though, he's young, I wasn't sure he was going to do what was needed, it was no fun for him out there, that's for sure.
But he accepted the battle (if not quite embraced it). Got a better read on the ball. Adapted his game a bit to give himself a chance. And played a better tie-break so, on that alone, deserved the second set.
The third was then terribly close - just like the second - and Liam kept up his level and didn't capitulate at all (which is credit to him, because he could have done, in frustration, seeing how close he'd come in the second).
Until right in the middle, at 2-3 on serve, when France threw in a 'worst-game-you've-ever-played' sort of game - a moment of true 'head gone completely AWOL'. Maybe youth. Maybe it's something he has problems with in general (haven't seen enough of his games to really know). But talk about lack of lucidity....
Anyway, then Liam deserves a lot of credit - because, now leading 4-2, with Tiafoe a little despondent with himself, he threw in a brilliant service game - his best for the last 45 minutes. really decisive, Gave Tiafoe no chance.
And then I think Frances had had enough. And it was game, set and match.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

So now it's 2 pm or so and there's Kyle and Raonic practicing on the practice courts (and Andy and Stan seem to reappear - how many balls do they need to hit ? You'd think they'd hit enough in their time really.....

)

And on the far court, young Kozlov is taking the sting out of Kenny de S's grass game.

And on Court 2, Kudla and Thomson are having a VERY long match, of VERY long rallies, with a very interesting match up of styles.

And on the court in front, it's our man, Ed.

(And still free).

To be fair, Ed played a good, honest game. Some good net play. A sublime game to break Chardy in the second set. And decent stuff all round.
But, unlike Tiafoe, Chardy knows his way round a grass court and you never ever thought he was going to lose. His ground shots are just that bit too good - far more fluid and consistently better timed than Ed's. And, of course, his serve does a lot of damage. It was all a bit languid (as is Chardy's wont and as is common when playing a guy ranked a lot lower - it would be 'uncool' for a Frenchman to be seen to be trying too hard). And Ed posed some questions and made him dig deeper than he had expected to (in my view). But I couldn't see him losing it, and he didn't.

By the way, excellent umpiring - Chardy got the hump slightly at the end of the second set over a serve from Liam that he thought was a let. The umpire's response was clipped but polite: I didn't hear it and the device didn't go off. When challenged, he just repeated the same. And that's perfect. End of.
And good line-calling.

Spectator · All-time great

Well, if one cannot oneself go to the ball, it is very good to have a blow-by-blow account from a kindly person who can ... thank you, CD. Thank you for the very interesting commentary - and glad that you were able to enjoy it!

Jan · Hall of fame

Thanks CD!