ATP San Jose - qualifying

Sheddie · administrator

RE: ATP San Jose - qualifying

john · Top national player

Come on Aucks! Pick yourself off the ground and break him here. You're better than this guy.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Aucks serving at 57 24

0-15, DF (only his second of the match which considering his first serve percentage isn't that bad)
15-30
15-40. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
30-40
2nd serve...DF#3. on break point and everything.

25 if he wins from here I'll live in the shed for a month. (worked for Johansson.)

Sheddie · administrator

C'mon Aucks....it'd be great to have a shedgirl on this forum

john · Top national player

Mcclune going to bottle this. Still very confident of an Aucks win here.

Sheddie · administrator

McClune serving:

0-15

15-15

15-30: double fault - half a chance here to get one break back

30-30

Sheddie · administrator

30-40 !

deuce

Sheddie · administrator

john wrote:

Mcclune going to bottle this. Still very confident of an Aucks win here.

ah well....it's 1.30am on a Sunday morning

Sheddie · administrator

Aucks misses a 2nd bp and McClune now has 1st match point

2nd serve....deuce

Aucks still alive in this....just

john · Top national player

Lol, ah well. Don't think James will be too bothered. It's good preparation for the doubles at least which is what he will be taking most seriously.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

McClune serving for the match at 75 52

0-15, is he a choker? hope so
15-15, maybe not.

30-30
30-40, can Aucks finally take a break point?
deuce, not this time.

ad Aucks, another chance to break back
deuce2.

2/11 break points won is a very bad stat Aucks my friend.
ad McC, mp1
deuce3 ha!
as McC, mp2
GSM McClune

Aucks loses 57 26. his serving always seems to be the deciding factor in whether AUcks will win or lose, up the consistency (at a high level) and Aucks could soar up the rankings.

Sheddie · administrator

McClune takes his 2nd match point and wraps it up 7-5, 6-2. Aucks just simply didn't play well enough in this one - if you're a serve-volleyer and you serve at 45% plus take only 2/11 bps, you can't really hope to win

Very disappointing, he won't get many better chances to qualify for an ATP than that !

Sheddie · administrator

imoen wrote:
his serving always seems to be the deciding factor in whether AUcks will win or lose, up the consistency (at a high level) and Aucks could soar up the rankings.

It's because he's a serve-volleyer, it's the same thing with Jonny Marray.

At his best Aucks averages around 2 aces a game. When he played Moodie and Tursunov in Mumbai last year, he was nigh unbreakable at times.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

C'mon Aucks....it'd be great to have a shedgirl on this forum

I'd have happily taken on that mantle in exchange for an Aucks win. Shame it didn't work, although can't say I'm all that upset about being able to stay indoors tonight, it's pretty cold out. Plus our shed has two bicycles and some paint in it and very little room for anything else...

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

imoen wrote:
his serving always seems to be the deciding factor in whether AUcks will win or lose, up the consistency (at a high level) and Aucks could soar up the rankings.
It's because he's a serve-volleyer, it's the same thing with Jonny Marray.

At his best Aucks averages around 2 aces a game. When he played Moodie and Tursunov in Mumbai last year, he was nigh unbreakable at times.

I hadn't realised he is a serve-volleyer that makes much more sense then. Still absolutely gutting when he loses though. I guess I should've known that really, English doubles specialist can't really be anything but a serve-volleyer!