Week 47 - Caloundra Challenger [$25K+H] - 2007.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Week 47 - Caloundra Challenger [$25K+H] - 2007.

wolf · Tennis legend

QR1

Myles Blake v Dane Fernandez [1036]

Fernandez best performances this season are 2 futures quaters.

Drew · Nov 16, 2007

Well done to Myles for going for this....good draw !!!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

oooh. A real chance.

Hope Myles can be there on time every day to capitalise!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

A better chance would have been in Malysia where he would have been seeded 3 in qualies as well, where 3 of 8 seeds were unranked, where it would have been 2 unranked players to make the main draw for 3 points and a great chacne to go further.

LTA site mentions British men in Malaysia next week. I hope its more than just in doubles.

steven · Tennis legend

Me too, as a way of gaining relatively easy points, the Malaysian super-challenger puts the African safari into the shade!

seagull · Hall of fame

Well we won't have anyone in singles there as no one entered!

Salmon · Tennis legend

First Round

Myles Blake beat Dane Fernandez (AUS) 6-1 6-4

Second Round

Myles Blake beat Adam Staub (NZL) 6-0 6-2

Final Round

Myles Blake [667] vs. Dayne Kelly [1028] of Australia

The draw isn't as easy as it seems. Kelly is only 17 and beat Klein five weeks ago, plus took quite a few games off Lindahl and Alun Jones earlier this year. He lost to Myles in straights last month, so that should give him (Myles, that is) some extra confidence.

steven · Tennis legend

Crazy that people go off on the safari to pick up relatively easy points then miss the Malaysia trick. No doubt lots of people will have cottoned on by next year and it won't be quite as easy.

Anyway, good news from Caloundra qualifying: [removed since I was a minute too late! - however the player Myles beat in QR1 was WR 1036 not unranked]

-- Edited by steven at 09:16, 2007-11-17

Salmon · Tennis legend

Myles won by 2 & 3 and then drew Andrew Thomas of Australia.

What a chance! Andrew is a 17 year old ranked 1461 and often struggles in Futures qualies even though he was best in his age group three years ago. Pauffley beat him in straights earlier this year.

http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2007/2153/mds.pdf

RobC · All-time great

Myles Qualifies

2 more points inthe bag!

-- Edited by RobC at 09:30, 2007-11-18

Drew · Nov 18, 2007

Excellent news !!!

Nice draw for a change !

XCW4EVA · County player

OMG, go Myles go, this really is an awesome chance, a risk that has definately payed off

Salmon · Tennis legend

This isn't that risky as Myles is based in Australia.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Myles plays tomorrow.

His ranking wasn't good enough to get him into doubles. Hopefully he'll get a doubles wild card next week since he's sort of a local lad in Brisbane.