Week 33 - New Delhi Challenger IV [50K] - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Week 33 - New Delhi Challenger IV [50K] - 2008.

XCW4EVA · County player

do we know much about the guy he is up against, and what does the asterix mean next to him?

talp · Junior player

whos Faris?

hope he wins

johnnylad · Tennis legend

He's a British junior player. I beleive he is or has been coached by Goldenslam from this board.

Tend to play in Malaysia a lot and I suppose Delhi is quite close to Malaysia on a global scale. Interesting scheduling though!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

He won 6-3 6-3 in R1 but lost 6-2 6-3 to YANG, Tsung-Hua ranked 646.

Not a bad effort.

talp · Junior player

will he get any rank points for that?

john · Top national player

Nope

steven · Tennis legend

Josh & Wardy are in the same quarter of the draw this time and Slabba & Eaton are both in the same quarter too.

L32: (3) Josh Goodall WR v (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND) WR
L32: James Ward WR v (WC) Rohan Gajjar (IND) WR
L32: (6) Alex Slabinsky WR v Tomas Cakl (CZE) WR
L32: Chris Eaton WR v (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND) WR

I'll add the rankings a bit later.

Overall, not a good draw, with Slabba playing Cakl who beat Josh in the semis this week, Chris facing the no. 2 seed and Josh & Wardy due to meet in R2. cry

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Not one of the better draws, but they all got good draws last week, so it evens itself out I suppose in the long run.

Eaton has a tough task against Amritraj, but has a chance as they are similar players in the way they play, and Amritraj's run to the Newport final has left him vastly overranked - if Chris plays as well as he can, he can push Amritraj and maybe steal a couple of tiebreaks, as Amritraj lost to Motumora last week, who isn't a special player at all.

Slabba has a toughie against Cakl judging by his form last week, but I think this would be the first bad opening draw Slabba has had in challengers this year, so he can't complain about it... he can win it if he plays well, but may have to up his level a little to get the win.

Ward and Goodall, although they have to meet in round 2 have lovely opening matches, and both should have no trouble winning them, and they are in a reasonably weak Quarter (not as weak as the top quarter though), so Goodall has a good chance of repeating his semi final run.

Vandenburg · Futures level

Cakl deffo starts as fav against slabba
Yeh amritraj is so overated, 120 points from newport final, without that he be what 500 odd in the world?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Time for the Brits to step up! At least two will defintely secure points...

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Vandenburg wrote:

Cakl deffo starts as fav against slabba
Yeh amritraj is so overated, 120 points from newport final, without that he be what 500 odd in the world?

Probably around 275, as I think that's about what he was before Newport, which is a bit below his true ranking which should be around the 225-250 mark

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

After winning the title last week, Goodall and Ward choose not to compete in the doubles this time, which seems a strange decision, but I guess they want to concentrate on singles/Goodall wants to get to the US as soon as he can if he does lose.

Eaton and Slabba get a pair of Indian WC's in round 1, although I have no desire to type out the name of one of them as I'll be here all day!

Goodall, Ward, and the doubles are on the OOP for tomorrow.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Eaton and Slabba get a pair of Indian WC's in round 1, although I have no desire to type out the name of one of them as I'll be here all day!

I take it you mean Vignesh Perananullur Chandrasekhar, FD? wink

I'd hate to be the umpire in that match! biggrin

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Wardy's opponent lost to Alistair Felton 6-0 6-3 back in May so surely Wardy will cruise through on that one, I'd fancy him against Goodall if they do meet.