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

Salmon · Tennis legend

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

steven · Tennis legend

That should mean top 400 for Wardy

I wonder why Josh made such heavy weather of his match.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

At least they both won... with Ward playing well by the looks of things, while Goodall struggled, and dropping a set isn't encouraging, but he got the win in the end which is the most important thing.

Vandenburg · Futures level

Yeh 2 wins good stuff as i think slabba and eaton will struggle tommorow.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Good to see two wins from India again.

talp · Junior player

well played

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Eaton and Slabba won the doubles 7-6(5), 6-3 as well, to make it a good opening day in New Dehli

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Ward on the charge!

Vandenburg · Futures level

i see ward beating goodall

GavinUK · Lower Club Player

The order of play is up for tomorrow and both Eaton and Slabba are playing, so it's fairly safe to assume they won their first round matches. I can't find the results for today yet. Expect they'll be posted shortly.

seagull · Hall of fame

Fantastic news and both have chances of a Q/F now!

GavinUK · Lower Club Player

Found the results.

Chris Eaton def. Prakash Amritraj 7-6(5) 6-1

Alex Slabinsky def. Tomas Cakl 3-6 7-5 7-6(1)

GavinUK · Lower Club Player

I don't have any real idea about either of their opponents, but if Chris beat the number 2 seed and is playing a qualifier next, you'd think he had a good shot at reaching the QFs. Slabba beat last weeks runner up, so he must be in fairly good form. His opponent, Motomura is about 34 and on his way down the world rankings, currently 321. So it does look like Slabba should get to the QFs as well.

Then again, Motomura beat the number 2 seed last week to reach the QFs. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens tomorrow.

Best of luck to Alex and Chris and to Ward and Goodall too, though sadly one of them will have to loose.

-- Edited by GavinUK at 16:12, 2008-08-12

Akhenaten · Pro player

Brilliant wins! biggrin

Amritraj is ranked 217 & Cakl is 278.

Slabba & Eaton are showing they've fully moved up to challenger level now.

Vandenburg · Futures level

i hope slabba can get a QF instead oif his regular challanger 1sr round
as for eaton i had a feeling he would win but lets remember Amritraj aint as good as his ranking
the newport grass tourny after wimby always throws up some week random draws.