Week 23 - ATP (€750,000) - Queens Club, London, Great Britain

steven · Tennis legend

Week 23 - ATP (€750,000) - Queens Club, London, Great Britain

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

That set was went away from Ward far too quickly and he's just not managed to get into the match at all.

He's not serving as well as he needs to, while the only points he has won on Baghdatis's serve have been double faults.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Ward broken again and loses the set 6-2.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

wardy has to get his first serve % up if he's going to have any chance in this 2nd set.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Yes, for Baggy to be getting just 44% of first serves in and Ward not to have won a point except for double faults is rather alarming.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Broken again :(

James · Satellite level

James needs to get his intensity levels up, the crowd are rather subdued at the moment so they aren't going to help him.

I think I was expecting too much from James after his Queen's perforamnce last year and his recent Challenger success but he seems to be playing pretty poorly today - the amount of half court balls, on his backhand as well, that he's planted long or wide has been quite surprising.

It's not over yet though, shouldn't be all doom and gloom about it..!

steven · Tennis legend

Given this performance and last week's result, is it possible that Wardy has become too much of a clay court specialist, if you see what I mean. He looks quite out of sorts out there, much more uncomfortable than he did last year.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

62 63.

pretty poor performance from Wardy really. Baggy was solid but didn't seem to do much. Wardy just didn't test him at all. hopefully he will still gets WC's to the other 2 grass events, but unfortunately his performances haven't done him any favours.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Baghdatis wins 6-2, 6-3.

Baghdatis looked good and played a pretty decent match but a bit disappointing from Ward really. By the time he got into the match it was already over and he never really challenged Baghdatis.

His serving wasn't up to the standard it needed to be, while he missed far too many easy shots by a big margain as well. And the fact he barely won a point on the Baghdatis serve was an issue as well.

Hopefully he can learn from this and do better at Eastbourne and Wimbledon, but it does look like he's going to end up having better results on the slower surfaces, which perhaps given the lack of players we have on those surfaces, isn't a bad thing.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

and he doesn't have the excuse of the qualies boys of a sudden surface change

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I was annoyed when the BBC talked instead of showing the match - but when they did show it, I began to think it would be better if they went back to talking. . .

I was hoping for better than that from Ward, after his good showing last year. This match was almost embarrassing.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Gregor Dimitrov has made the most of his wild card having won 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 against Ivan Navarro of Spain.

-- Edited by ForeverDelayed on Monday 8th of June 2009 05:07:58 PM

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Didn't really think Ward would win this match but this result just shows as usual how far the guys have to go to get anywhere near the top 100. All the boys in quali's out in 1st round then the two wildcards out in main round 1. Barely halfway through the first afternoon and theres only Andy left. So Disappointing.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Have to say i'm gutted he peformed so badly