Week 32 - New Delhi Challenger III [50K] - 2008.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

RE: Week 32 - New Delhi Challenger III [50K] - 2008.

gazzpash · Club Coach

Madeline wrote:

You can't usually get Challenger scores very quickly. I'm sure somebody will post it when they find it.

What you need is Brittennis reporter there biggrin

Maybe I should do that as a job! I need one lol biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

The semis were rained off and will be played at 05.00 BST tomorrow with the Final to follow not before 08.30 BST and the Doubles Final after a rest after that.

Let's hope it's a big day for Josh!

talp · Junior player

so 5am tomorrow?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

3 matches potentially for Josh tomorrow, all in the heat of New Dehli.... doesn't sound promising, but hope he can win at least 2 of them to guarentee himself a title from here

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Yorkie wrote:

Wardy and Eaton will achieve more in tennis than Slabba i feel

Can't remember Slabba competing or beating anyone in the top 200, he's had a few chances to mix it with them but failed everytime so far. Still early days for him though i guess.

I think Eaton's Wimbledon run is being overrated by a lot of people... Eaton has a slightly better serve and his volleys are better than Slabba's, but his groundstrokes are nowhere near as good and on slower courts Eaton is going to struggle to win matches against quality opponents.

Before Wimbledon he'd reached a single futures QF all season, but he is a better player than that.

I'd say Eaton will get to around 150 tops, and that's with an improvement in his game and getting some nice draws in the grass court season, as other than on grass, I don't see him picking up lots of ranking points at challenger level (and lets not forget, he didn't qualify for Surbiton, nor Nottingham, lost in the WC play-off, and then beat Pashanski, one of the biggest grass clowns on the circuit at Wimbledon)

Slabba though has a better chance of making the top 100, but I still don't think he'll get past the 150 mark, as although the elements to his game are there, he's not quite got something to make him look like a top 100 player.

Ward definately has the talent to be top 100, and the fact he can play on clay will help him, and it gives him an extra 3 months of the season to score points, but has to cut out these silly losses to lower ranked players if he's to move quickly up the rankings

I think thats a very fair assessment FD

The only thing i'd say about Eaton is he's still only 20 so naturally there's parts of his game that will improve as he's higher than both Ward and Slabba were when they were 20 (i know it wasn't that long ago)

but i'd agree completely that Eaton will struggle past the top 150 barrier and that Wardy will be the best bet for a top 100 spot

GavinUK · Lower Club Player

If Josh wins his Semi today, he'll have to go on to play the singles final and then the doubles final. That seems like a lot of tennis in one day. As the qualifiers for next week have also started now, that's a lot of matches that need to be completed before the results are posted. I suspect nothing will appear until 3 or 4 this afternoon. Unless anyone has any friends near by in New Delhi?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Josh lost by 4 and 2. Niland got the title in the end - very happy for him.

Josh and Wardy won the doubles title with a 4 and 1 win in the final. That's no sets dropped all week.

XCW4EVA · County player

lol i wish i knew what has happened in india but atp site hasn't been update yet! and no news on mtf either.

XCW4EVA · County player

doh too late, well done Niland anyway

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Bit of a disappointing loss to Cakl, as he should be beating him, not losing 4 and 2 to him, but at least he and Ward won the doubles title, which is a decent consolation prize from the week.

Hope they get some good draws this week and the Brits can go deep again.

And well done to Niland on winning the title (I thought he'd lose to Klein, so a good win for him)