Week 24 - Queen's Club ATP - London

James · Satellite level

RE: Week 24 - Queen's Club ATP - London

The Hoose · Satellite level

Josh holds for 4-5. Seems to be serving pretty well: six aces so far.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Hewitt wraps up the set 6-4. Josh only managed to win 3 points on Hewitt's serve in that set.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Josh fires down three aces to open the second set. No reason why he can't take this set to a tie-break.

wolf · Tennis legend

Does anyone get the feeling the LTA have told Josh to calm his emotions in this match so as not to show them up? He looks quite passive. Bit like the big speech the teacher gives at school when going on a school trip.

gazzpash · Club Coach

James wrote:

Did Andrew Castle just state that there are more tournaments in Britain this year than in previous years? [or was he referring to tournaments in general/worldwide?] It wouldn't surprise me if it was the former.

I heard that and questioned it. Wouldnt surprise me as I doubt Andrew Castle has actually done any research. Not a fan of his

James · Satellite level

wolf wrote:

Does anyone get the feeling the LTA have told Josh to calm his emotions in this match so as not to show them up? He looks quite passive. Bit like the big speech the teacher gives at school when going on a school trip.

Would not surprise me to find that that is the case. The coaching out of emotion that seems to be quite common in Britain is something that I disagree with, emotion and passion can often help a player [although it can also be destructive in some circumstances]. I remember watching Lee Childs at last years Wimbledon and he displayed nothing, no hunger, no passion, no determination.. perhaps he was another victim of the no-emotion rule.

The Hoose · Satellite level

According to the scoreboard, Josh was just broken - suffering a double fault from a second serve foot fault at break point down... is this true?

James · Satellite level

"That man's alert.." : Andrew Castle referencing the line judges call on a Josh Goodall foot-fault. Yes, he is.. shame neither of Andrew or Greg are, kept saying it was Josh's first foot-fault of the match... are they even watching it? wink

James · Satellite level

Yes that is true.. it was extremely marginal though, mm's in it.

The Hoose · Satellite level

How many foot-faults has he had? Have they been on both first and second serve?

wolf · Tennis legend

It was a poor mistake from Josh, he was just standing too near to the line in the first place and his front foot just slid over the line in the action.

Josh just misses an easy forehand at deuce, normally Josh would break his raquet after a shot like that on an important point. He has just ripped a winner dtl, back to deuce but Hewitt fires in an ace and an unreturnable.

Josh to serve at 4-6, *3-5.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Josh fights back from 0-30 to make Hewitt serve it out.

-- Edited by The Hoose at 15:39, 2008-06-09

James · Satellite level

He has had two foot-faults called against him.. The first one was on a first serve [I think.. my memory might deceive me]

The Hoose · Satellite level

That's it. Hewitt wins 6-4 6-4. Pretty comfortable, it would seem.