Dallas Challenger 2007.

Niall · Pro player

RE: Dallas Challenger 2007.

Niall · Pro player

They have also added an interview with Jamie

This must be the greatest challenger in the world.

Niall · Pro player

Jamie said that the most important thing today was his attitude. To go from a final a week ago back to qualies is a bit of a come down and he worked hard to keep his focus. Jamie dodged the question about his tactics, maybe they are secret.

-- Edited by Niall at 18:58, 2007-02-04

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Well done, Jamie! I couldn't follow the match after the first set but that is great news to come back to!

Niall · Pro player

Jamie will face Marcus Sarstrand in the qualifying round.

Marcus Sarstrand(SWE) d. Scott Lipsky(USA) 6-2, 6-4

This is a bit spooky. 6-2 for Sarstrand came up on the scoreboard not long after the match started, I almost posted it but then the score moved back to 2-1. Did the scorer have a preminition or is the 'livescore' running a bit behind time? Very strange.

andyjmr · Intermediate Club Player

Niall wrote:

Jamie will face Marcus Sarstrand in the qualifying round.

Marcus Sarstrand(SWE) d. Scott Lipsky(USA) 6-2, 6-4

This is a bit spooky. 6-2 for Sarstrand came up on the scoreboard not long after the match started, I almost posted it but then the score moved back to 2-1. Did the scorer have a preminition or is the 'livescore' running a bit behind time? Very strange.

I saw the same thing: 6-2 5-2 to Sarstrand. Next time I looked it was 2-1 .. I assumed it meant 2-1 in sets, but no.. Sarstrand won 2-0.

Sarstrand - 28 years old, WR 419 (down from 240 two years ago). Got soundly whipped in the Durban challenger in January 6-2 6-1 in the 1st round. I wonder if he played really well against Lipsky, or if Lipsky played badly?

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

Well done Baker!

i hope you get into the MD and repeat the form you showed a couple of weeks!

john · Top national player

Strasand holdas a 1-0 lead on he H2H over Jamie. Hopeflully Jamie can overturn that. Baker for king! He's going to make it big lads! Or ami just drunk?

Sheddie · administrator

Arka wrote:

ultimateshedman wrote:
I guess that when Ollie was younger, the size factor wasn't such an issue and his superior court craft really told. Then after a few years I guess that he got overtaken by others who were bigger and stronger.
How many junior slams did Fed win ? Was it just junior Wimbledon ? Who were the other guys in his age group who were the top players ?

Just Junior Wimbly. But he reached the finals of the USO and won the Orange Bowl.

The big guns at that time were Nalbandian, Coria, Kristian Pless and Julien Jeanpierre.

Wow, I'm amazed he won junior Wimbledon at just 16

Do you know if Fed was one of the top juniors by that time or did he just come from nowhere ? Did he stop playing juniors at 17 and 18 once he was on the ATP tour ?

Just shows how even being an elite junior doesn't mean senior success, Pless and Jeanpierre have both made top 100 but haven't been top 75 and have now slipped back into the 100s.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I just popped over to the Dallas SB to see some of those highlights, and Ross Hutchins/Josh Goodall appear to have beaten Donald Young/somebody called P Briaud 6-4 6-3

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Great win for JamieB!

Should have enough for Sarstrand in this form!

I must log on and watch that interview!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

There's video highlights of Josh and Ross vs Young/Briaud too!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Madeline wrote:

I just popped over to the Dallas SB to see some of those highlights, and Ross Hutchins/Josh Goodall appear to have beaten Donald Young/somebody called P Briaud 6-4 6-3

Its dubs qualifying. They now faces Simmonds/Kuznetsov for a MD place.

Nice warm up for Josh too!

From the video it was men vs boys!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I'm so impressed by the content on this challenger website.

Match highlights (albeit from a weird angle)
Scoreboard.
Post match interviews!
Dedicated messageboard.
up to date drawsheets etc...
Photos section.

Brilliant

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I just watched all the video footage available. Ok, it isn't great, you can usually see only a small part of the court and don't get much idea of the play, but you get good shots of each player.

I watched the doubles highlights too, you didn't get to see much of the Brits, the cameras concentrated almost entirely on Donald Young! Not surprising I suppose.

To get livescores and ANY sort of video coverage and interviews from a challenger is staggering. But what do you expect from Dallas, Texas always has to be bigger and better

P.S. At one point there were two men watching, but I couldn't see the dog. . .

-- Edited by Madeline at 22:57, 2007-02-04