Week 29 Challenger - Lexington ($50k) - USA

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 29 Challenger - Lexington ($50k) - USA

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

wow! great results to come back to, makes up for me playing crap tennis tonight.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I think the USA is to be a very successful hunting ground for a number of British tennin players this year

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

EVO!!!!!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Evski.

He or Janowicz will end the year as the highest ranked sub 1989 player. Klein is banned, Nishikori is injured and Donald Young is Donald Young.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

maybe Evo v Janowicz will decide the Davis Cup tie in Liverpool?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Matosevic def. Cook 6-7(4), 7-6(7), 7-6(5)

Happy for Marinko to have got the win, but I'd prefer it if he didn't get any more this week.

He also looks to be someone who is content to do things the hard way as he was 5-3 down in the second set so Cook served for the match, and possibly had match points in the tiebreak.

If Boggo can play to his best though, he should have enough to beat Matosevic.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Hehe, not impossible. But Evo needs to prove that he can beat top 200 players consistently before he's considered for Live rubbers.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Salmon wrote:

Hehe, not impossible. But Evo needs to prove that he can beat top 200 players consistently before he's considered for Live rubbers.

Well, seeing as neither Ward nor Goodall can say theyve done that, am i assuming you would pick the Bogman for that tie? biggrin

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Matosevic def. Cook 6-7(4), 7-6(7), 7-6(5)

Happy for Marinko to have got the win, but I'd prefer it if he didn't get any more this week.

He also looks to be someone who is content to do things the hard way as he was 5-3 down in the second set so Cook served for the match, and possibly had match points in the tiebreak.

If Boggo can play to his best though, he should have enough to beat Matosevic.

Argh, well at least Boggo is playing better than when they met in Tallahassee, and Matosevic won't be too fresh for this one (although neither will Alex!)

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Fantastic couple of results to come home to, I wasn't really expecting either to win (especially when Boggo is semi-injured). Made my day.

Oh and Silver, w00t comes across much better when you include the ::s...

and I agree it is the only word (for want of a better word

) to use right now

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Salmon wrote:

Evski.

He or Janowicz will end the year as the highest ranked sub 1989 player. Klein is banned, Nishikori is injured and Donald Young is Donald Young.

This is taken from a thread on MTF so can't vouch for the accuracy, but in terms of points to date won this year for the sub 1990 generation it is this...

Tomic - 150 (1992)
Rufin - 135 (1990)
Del Bonis - 99 (1990)
Evans - 98 (1990)
Dimitrov - 97 (1991)
Kyu - 92 (1991)
Bhambri - 78 (1992)
Yang - 73 (1991)
Vivanco-Guzman - 70 (1990)
Janowicz - 63 (1990)

http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=97120&page=6

That's the link which has other players on it as well.

Tomic leading the way, which is quite impressive given that he's a 1992 player and has barely played since Febuary, so should have a good chance of keeping that lead as long as he plays regularly, which he probably won't do.

I think Rufin and Del Bonis will probably be Evans's toughest opponents in the race as they seem to be able to consistantly score points having done well in futures and challengers without having that one massive event like Evans had in Jersey, while Dimitrov, if he can actually play well for an entire week, could challenger as well.

Yang, Kyu and Bhambri should do well in the weaker events in Asia which will get their rankings up as well.

Janowicz is having a good week this week, but hasn't really had a great year, which shows by how few points he's got.

No data that I can immediately find for 1989 players as to who falls into that category, but Klizan has actually remembered he can play tennis recently, so could figure if he can continue to play well.

Salmon · Tennis legend

The Knight wrote:

Salmon wrote:

Hehe, not impossible. But Evo needs to prove that he can beat top 200 players consistently before he's considered for Live rubbers.

Well, seeing as neither Ward nor Goodall can say theyve done that, am i assuming you would pick the Bogman for that tie?

No, DC harms Boggo more than helps him. I'd still choose Goodall over Evans, especially if the surface is grass.

Salmon · Tennis legend

FD, Dimitrov has a lot to defend in September - 72 points in two weeks, in fact. But then if you believe what Lundgren says, he'll probably win a Masters and a Tour event this year, so it's all good in camp Dimitrov.

Tomic doesn't play much tennis (or manages to get himself banned), so he won't catch up unless he does well in big events or wins smaller Challengers.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Salmon wrote:

FD, Dimitrov has a lot to defend in September - 72 points in two weeks, in fact. But then if you believe what Lundgren says, he'll probably win a Masters and a Tour event this year, so it's all good in camp Dimitrov.

Tomic doesn't play much tennis (or manages to get himself banned), so he won't catch up unless he does well in big events or wins smaller Challengers.

He'll probably drop at that point, but until this week, Evans only had one more point than him, so he's obviously doing something right this year. Would probably expect Evans to finish the season ranked higher than Dimitrov, but expect Dimitrov to have the better overall career.

Yeah, Tomic doesn't seem to be playing many events at all and seems to just play the odd event where he gets a wild card, but I'd imagine he'd play a bit more later in the season because otherwise he's facing a huge drop at the start of next season. He'll probably get the Aussie wild card to the US Open so that's a chance to get points, while there's bound to be some events happy to give him a wild card.

At this moment I'd probably back Rufin or Del Bonis to just do enough to end the year ranked the highest, just ahead of Evans, but Tomic to be ranked higher than all of them if he plays enough events to do so. Dimitrov could challenger as well, but that's all dependent on whether he puts his talent together for a consistant period (I think he needs just one event where he qualifies and then goes deep and things may click for him.)

(And yes, Dimitrov is over-hyped, but if he plays like he did in Rotterdam, then he can match the hype)