Salmon wrote:

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I think he just gets Manchester to earn the points? Could make the cut as it is, too - this year not having points to defend is as good as winning a few rounds in a Futures.

The LTA are totally to be blamed if he doesn't (assuming he hasn't been injured to an extent since Turkey). He has hardly played of late - how can you improve if you're sitting at home? Should have gone to the US for Winnetka and Newport.

 -- Edited by Salmon on Saturday 4th of July 2009 06:40:45 PM

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He withdrew from Turkey so the injury he picked up there probably cost him a few weeks, and I guess the thinking is that in these weeks where he isn't playing, he is working on his game and improving the stuff that needs work on.

No point in him going to Newport at all because with the way he plays, he wouldn't have had a chance of qualifying, and it would have been a lot of money to spend on the trip.

The thing is, other than Jersey, Evans has actually had a very average year. Since winning the title in Jersey, he's played seven events and won just four matches, three of which were against unranked players and one against a guy with one ranking point, and his performances in the grass court season weren't all that impressive.

And other than Jersey, he's beaten just four players ranked inside the top 400, and two of them were Slabba and Eaton, who have been having a terrible season.

Maybe it is partially the fault of the LTA if he doesn't make it, but take away the one good week in Jersey and Evans has done nothing this year really, and needs to step up his level of performance as the way he is playing recently, it wouldn't be anywhere near a certainty that he'd be able to win matches on the challenger tour.

-- Edited by ForeverDelayed on Sunday 5th of July 2009 10:07:05 AM

To be fair, it's not like Evo played badly before Jersey either, he just ran into guys like Yani who were favourites to beat him

spud wrote:

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Josh Goodall will play 3 brazil challengers on the trot starting next week.

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 Do you mean after Manchester?  Or the week of the Manchester Challenger?

Sorry, starting with Belo Horizonte whenever, not sure why i put next week.

INDIANAPOLIS
1 FISHER, Ashley 22 - KERR, Jordan 31 - D+D 53
2 HUSS, Stephen 34 - HUTCHINS, Ross 33 1038 D+D 67
3 BECKER, Benjamin 790 46 KUNITSYN, Igor 71 35 S+S 81
4 BUTORAC, Eric 40 - LIPSKY, Scott 52 - D+D 92
5 DE VOEST, Rik 43 216 RAM, Rajeev 69 181 D+D 112
6 COETZEE, Jeff 24 - ERLICH, Jonathan 91 - D+D 115
7 QUERREY, Sam 328 39 QURESHI, Aisam-Ul-Haq 87 288 S+D 126
8 CLEMENT, Arnaud 62 128 GICQUEL, Marc 64 65 D+D 126
9 LU, Yen-Hsun 4999 59 MOSER, Frank 74 - S+D 133
10 CERRETANI, James 46 - RETTENMAIER, Travis 103 974 D+D 149
ALTERNATES
11 DABUL, Brian 100 97 MAYER, Leonardo 140 61 S+S 158
12 MARX, Philipp 84 - MOTTI, Alessandro 112 1326 D+D 196
13 CIPOLLA, Flavio 188 103 DANIEL, Marcos 379 101 S+S 204
14 RATIWATANA, Sanchai 107 - RATIWATANA, Sonchat 105 - D+D 212
15 FLEMING, Colin 134 479 SKUPSKI, Ken 125 870 D+D 259
16 MANKAD, Harsh 138 1085 THOMAS, Jim 128 - D+D 266


Nice to see Flemski entering an ATP event

Hmmm, heres really hoping Eaton makes an impact in Russia, its a great torny selection with such a weak field and it being a nice size challenger, but a round one loss would mean Manchester to Penza,Russia to Ilkley in like a 3-5 day space- A big waste of time and money.