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steven


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Bringing things back to James after all that messing about ashamed here's his full run to the Final:

QR2: (q1) James Ward WR 271 beat Roman Borvanov (MDA) WR 564 by 2 & 3 smile.gif
FQR: (q1) James Ward WR 271 beat Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) WR 1116 by 3 & 2 smile.gif

L32: (Q) James Ward WR 271 beat Michael Ryderstedt (SWE) WR 364 by 4 & 3 smile.gif
L16: (Q) James Ward WR 271 beat (2) Vince Spadea (USA) by 6-0 5-2 ret. biggrin
QF: (Q) James Ward WR 271 beat Jonathan Dasnières de Veigy (FRA) WR 312 by 3-6 6-1 6-4 smile
SF: (Q) James Ward WR 271 beat Michael Yani (USA) WR 249 by 6-2 3-6 7-6(5) biggrin

FI: (Q) James Ward WR 271 v (4) Carsten Ball (AUS) WR 213

Ball has a 6-7 record against Brits. The most recent matches in the series were all in Spring 2008, starting with a straight sets loss to Miles Kasiri in Lagos (POR), that infamous win by default against Kasiri in Albufeira (POR) the following week (when he reached the Final before suffering death by Machado), straight sets win against Flan in Bath, a straight sets loss to Bloomers in the semis of the same tournament and a 3-set win against Kasiri (again!) in Jersey the following week. Funnily enough, his next two matches after Jersey were both 3-set losses to a certain Michael Yani! wink 



-- Edited by steven on Saturday 16th of May 2009 12:05:51 AM

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I noticed on the schedule that it says the Final (at 5 pm UK) will be televised and asked them where, not expecting it to be viewable in the UK but I know there are a couple of AM.commers who live in Florida and thought they might be able to watch it and comment afterwards. I got a quick reply which said:

"It will be televised on SNN6 and fed to affiliates throughout the country. Video of the final will be posted to our website for everyone to watch after the event has finished. We wish James the best of luck in the final."

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SNN6 have got an article about the QFs on their site, mainly concentrating on Warday's opponent in the Final, but mentioning Wardy's marathon match with Chris too.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090515/ARTICLE/905151053/2050/SPORTS?Title=Ball-Ward-Yani-Malisse-in-semis

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best result of season excluding evans etc.

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Possibly even better given the surface and the fact it's outside the UK ... and yet the LTA seem to think that James being the first Brit to reach the semis of a clay court Challenger for 5 years was only worthy of a 2-line mention as the fourth item on their "this week" write-up. http://www.lta.org.uk/News/All-news-items/2009-05-11/This-week-in-British-Tennis-Friday-15th-May/ disbelief

The local paper in Florida gives him a big write-up today though http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090516/ARTICLE/905161039/2050/SPORTS?Title=Ward-gets-past-Yani and makes it clear that he had that top 250 place very much in mind. None of the British press has picked up on it though.

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Good report for a non British paper, poor show from LTA - just imagine if it had been Jamie Muray or Jamie Baker out there! (Sorry, I forgot they treat all players the same wink)

and a good account of James' play.





-- Edited by mjd on Saturday 16th of May 2009 09:05:36 AM

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It's great that Wardy knew about what he needed to do to get to Wimbly and actually delivered what he needed. It does look like he is skipping Kuwait though as it says he is going back to England after this.

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Feb week for Wardy. Should be really pleased with himself and we are all proud of him.

The LTA's '250' cut-off seems to have worked for James as a motivation so thats good. What is typical is the complete lack of interest in reporting of this run.

I have been very busy as of late but I am intending to write a letter to Roger Draper soon and the benign reporting of GB tennis is one of the points I will be making to him. The Queens WC fiasco is another point to be made.

Fingers crossed for the final pray.gif

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Come on Wardy! clap.gif Lets have another for the signature boyo!

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Great news. Surely a queens and wimbo WC is coming his way now.

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Does anyone else think Wardy actually said "I'm not one to bottle it" and because it's not a phrase the Americans know (or is it?), they misheard it? smile.gif

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quite possibly but it's a great line biggrin.gif

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Stircrazy wrote:

P.S.  Any chance Mad could come up with a nose-thumbing icon for use against the denizens of MTF? wink In the absence of one, I guess nana.gif would serve...

 


Sorry, that and very similar are the only ones I can find as well.

Very well done, James!

 



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johnnylad wrote:
quite possibly but it's a great line biggrin.gif
It is indeed biggrin so you'd better not read the Bradenton Herald article which goes with 'bottle' wink

http://www.bradenton.com/breakingsports/story/1445070.html (it starts "James Ward lofted the ball skyward, coiled his body and unloaded a ferocious serve. Michael Yani awaited the return. Except, the ball came whizzing, and Yani managed to just knick it with his racquet shooting the ball into the stands and ending a three-set thriller.")

Looks like the Americans have 'adopted' the Aussie as their own now that Yani has gone out.



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did someone say its a 5pm final?

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