Sigh.  Alan loses the final set 3-6.  Big sigh.

We DID have good representation in this tournament.

10 singles matches have been posted on the oop for tomorrow and Jamie isn't invovled in any of them so I guess there is no LL spot and I was infact clutching at straws.

Not a good day for British tennis.

@ those results. I hoped that Brits would win maybe 2 out od the 3, shows how wrong I was.

Hopefully a lucky loser spot might pop up at the last minute today and Jamie can get it. I'm not sure how things are working with lucky loser places in challengers and futures now, is it all done by random draw ? 

I thought that Mackin's match would be tough. Rajeev Ram is 6t4, big serve and a serve-volleyer, a tricky player to face indoors. Made the Waikoloa quarters a couple of weeks ago. From the scores it appears that Mackin played two sloppy service games from 6-3, 5-5 and that cost him the match

Shame about Goodall's result aswell, just a couple of points in it in the end. However it shows that he's playing well and in pretty good form after the slightly shaky start to the year. Fleishman is one of those players who seems to have been ranked about the 150 mark for the past 4 years. He beat Boggo in straights in the States last year.

From watching the 2nd set highlights of Jamie Baker's match, it appears that he was too inconsistent against Sarstrand,  lots of points where he's hanging his head after making a backhand or forehand error. Sarstrand also appears to have played a better match tactically, lots of points where he opens up the court by using the backhand slice to take Jamie out wide or heavy topspin to push him back behind the baseline. In the Niland match highlights, for most of the points Jamie is on the baseline and dictating play, stepping up the court and looking to get into the net to finish the point. Against Sarstrand, for most of the points he's about 2 feet behind the baseline and on the defensive....there are no points in which he's coming into the net.

All 3 players now head to Joplin for the 50K challenger next week. I don't think that any are going for ATP San Jose qualies.
   

johnnylad wrote:

---

Yeah i know!

Just meant gets him as partner.

Just that Travis Parrott who normally plays with Butorac is here with Delic so Jamie must have persuaded him to swap

---

Jamie teamed up with Butorac for a few tournaments last summer, they made the ATP Los Angeles final together.

Tricky opener against Armando and Todd Widom. Hopefully Armando is totally exhausted from his efforts in Delray Beach. Widom's ranked 260, made 3 challenger finals last year so he's no slouch

With Pless, his game's built around the big serve and forehand but the problem is that too many other players have those big weapons. He's a bit too variable from week to week aswell, I saw him in the autumn and he looked rather ordinary but a friend saw him in the GB challengers in autumn 2005 and said he was surprised that Pless wasn't ranked higher.

Was he making those peculiar grunting noises in the Nalbandian match ?    It might not be noticeable unless you're courtside but the most weird sounds come out of the man when he hits the ball.

    

normally there a 3 little round holes at the back, with little symbols, 1 with a mircophone, one with head phones etc, if u cant see just go by trial and error, untill one give u sound.

*note to self, do not sit on headphones before, during or after use*

ps did u get my pm?