Dallas Challenger 2007.

Sheddie · administrator

RE: Dallas Challenger 2007.

Sheddie · administrator

johnnylad wrote:

Jamie breaks again 6-5

Great stuff ! Perfect time to break back, hope he serves it out this time.

Niall · Pro player

6-5 Jamie breaks

Second time lucky, hopefully.

Salmon · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:
Yeah, I think Niland was one of the best juniors in Europe at that age. I read that in an Irish newspaper interview last summer during the Dublin challenger. Niland said that Federer wasn't thought of as anything special at that age and apparently he had one heck of a temper.

Federer says that he used to smash loads of rackets in his youth so his coach set up a system in which he got fined everytime he smashed one and Fed said he had to stop overwise he would have gone broke !

Fed was a good player when he was 13 or 14, but that's it really. He wasn't even one of the best in Europe, forget the world. He started picking things up from 16 or so.

In fact, Fed's early junior career is highly lacklustre when you compare it to people like Mats Wilander or John McEnroe.

The real star in those days was Ollie Rochus.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

7-5

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Great fightback from Jamie after losing serve at 5-5.

Lets hope for a runaway second set

Niall · Pro player

7-5 Jamie holds for the set at the second time of asking.

Hopefully it will hurt Niland to have lost the set after saving it.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

johnnylad wrote:

why have the last 6 posts been reversed????

I think it's this new activeboard post editor playing up. I'm going to complain about it I think, there are some things which are good but it just takes too long to load.

cool. Colours are nice but gremlins are

Sheddie · administrator

Good good. Maybe he relaxed and lost concentration after getting the break at 3-2, good to see him fighting back to take the set though

Just watched the 2nd video clip, Jamie seems to be mixing it up a lot more on his backhand with the slice and then the double-hander...didn't used to do that so much. Maybe he's been reading from the book of Murray

Sheddie · administrator

Niland holds in the first game of set 2.

Jamie leads 7-5, *0-1

Niall · Pro player

Second set 0-1 Niland holds

Niall · Pro player

0-2 Niland breaks

Jamie is making hard work of this.

Niall · Pro player

1-2 Jamie breaks back

Sheddie · administrator

From the scores it seems as though Jamie's not playing his best, hopefully he can keep plugging away though and grind it out, what the Scottish players are best at

Michael · Pro player

Niall wrote:

1-2 Jamie breaks back

Unfortunately it was just a hold of serve.