Week 18 - Challenger ($50K) - Savannah GA, USA

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Week 18 - Challenger ($50K) - Savannah GA, USA

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

3-4*

steven · Tennis legend

Deuce on Isner's serve, but sadly he holds. *3-5

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

4-5*, holds to love

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

and he saves 3 mp's to fight back to *5-5

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

but gets broken back 5-6*, oppurtunity very much missed there....

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

isner makes no mistake this time and wraps the match up 7-6 7-5

Vandenburg · Futures level

wow looked like a great effort and a close match, tho thsee last 2 weeks have showed us that ward could well make a big move this season

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

A very creditable performance by James. No disgrace in defeat by a player of Isner's calibre, but what I wouldn't have given to see that obnoxious Ukrainian, "djash", on MTF, not to mention the equally appalling "SwedSerb" (& not just because that particular moron is yet another who can't tell the difference between "lose" & "loose"!), get their comeuppance...!

freerider · Futures level

eaton did the same thing in his second set yesterdaty - broke back for 5-5 then got broken back aagain. still good effort from both

Smidster · Challenger level

Good performance from Wardy against a proven player.

Sadly just never looked breaking, at least in the first set, and so was always chasing the game

steven · Tennis legend

As far as I can see, James isn't playing the clay court Challenger in Sarasota next week (it doesn't look like he was ever entered for it), so I assume he's heading back to Europe, perhaps to train on red clay for a week, still hoping to get into Roland Garros qualifying.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Hmm, it's unlikely, but maybe James is going to play Sarasota qualies? Since he's in the US in the first place, he could want to purposely not enter for the extra points.

Or an even crazier move - Blumeneau! James could well be seeded in the main draw.

How about this for an explanation... James didn't enter enter any tournament since he wasn't sure. He planned Sarasota if he went out on Friday or later, or Blumeneau if he went out by Thursday.

I do hope that he'll do Blumeneau, but South America, North America, South America, Europe in four weeks seems impossible.

Salmon · Tennis legend

* It's Blumenau, not Blumeneau

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Another good effort on the clay by James, who seems to be performing a lot better on it this season than he has on the hard courts, and hopefully he'll get to a point where he's consistantly picking up points in clay court challengers which will not only to give a greater chance of getting points, but give us a good number two player in Davis Cup.

Hopefully he'll turn up in qualies somewhere next week to keep this good run of form going.