Week 37 - Futures F5 (15k) - Darwin, Australia - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 37 - Futures F5 (15k) - Darwin, Australia - Hard

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

Jamie Baker should be in the main draw here when it comes out on Monday and may well be seeded, while judging from the entry list and who the top seeds in qualifying are, Myles Blake has probably scraped into the main draw too.

Jamie most certainly is in the MD & has been seeded seventh. smile He is drawn to play an Aussie qualifier, James O'Brien (WR 1672, compared with Jamie's 737), in the first round. No sign of Myles Blake in either the qualies or the MD, though! confuse

Jamie is also playing doubles: he & his Aussie partner, Dane Propoggia, are the fourth seeds and play yet more Aussies, Jared Easton & Andrew Gregory (whom Easton apparently also coaches!), in the first round.

* The ATP appears to be blissfully unaware of this tournament's existence, which means having to make do with the crappy ITF draw sheets!

steven · Tennis legend

There seem to be no draws available even for the tournaments the ATP Challengers and Futures page IS aware of - I've been using tenniseurope.org or ITF too. I don't know what's gone wrong.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Try these :-

Tournament info

Order of Play

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (7) Jamie Baker WR 737 beat (Q) James O'Brien (AUS) WR 1672 by 6-1 4-6 6-1 smile

L16: (7) Jamie Baker vs Andrew Gregory (AUS) WR 884 or (Q) Isaac Frost (AUS) WR 1297

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 16th of September 2009 11:16:11 AM

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Close...congrats on getting through it though

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

Jamie is also playing doubles: he & his Aussie partner, Dane Propoggia, are the fourth seeds and play yet more Aussies, Jared Easton & Andrew Gregory (whom Easton apparently also coaches!), in the first round.

Forgot the doubles results!

Jamie & Dane had a comfortable first-round win, by 1 & 2, over Easton & Gregory. smile

They play another Aussie pair, Steven Goh & Mark Verryth, in the QF.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

L32: (Q) FROST, Isaac def. GREGORY, Andrew 4-1 ret.

L16: (7) BAKER, Jamie v (Q) FROST, Isaac (AUS) WR 1251

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Doubles

QF: (4) BAKER/PROPOGGIA (AUS) def. GOH/VERRYTH (AUS) 6-2 6-3

SF: (4) BAKER/PROPOGGIA (AUS) v (1) HENSEL/HUBBLE (AUS)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

L32: (7) Jamie Baker WR 737 beat (Q) James O'Brien (AUS) WR 1672 by 6-1 4-6 6-1
L16: (7) Jamie Baker vs Andrew Gregory (AUS) WR 884 or (Q) Isaac Frost (AUS) WR 1297

L16: (7) Jamie Baker WR 737 vs (Q) Isaac Frost (AUS) WR 1297

On the face of it, the better option for Jamie, but Frost won by 4-1 retired, one of FIVE players whose opponents retired at some stage in the first-round matches! disbelief

I sincerely hope Jamie's not going to get crocked again!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 16th of September 2009 11:15:36 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Wow, that's as bad as New Delhi the other week. Darwin must have its own dodgy curry house!

Smidster · Challenger level

Some of the retirements may well be heat related.

Temperatures upto 34'C with it feeling like 36.

Aussie Scot · Newbie

I can let you know Andrew Gregory picked up food poisoning in Singapore on way back from London. Was on I/V drip in Darwin Hospital overnight prior to doubles match. Only played doubles so he could still play singles. Pulled out of singles after 10 minutes still feeling sick. Temperatures and humidity in Darwin at this time of year energy sapping to say the least.

Drew · Sep 17, 2009

Neil welcome to the board and thanks for the info. Hope Andrew is on the mend. Presume you are his Dad?

steven · Tennis legend

L16: (7) Jamie Baker WR 654 beat (Q) Isaac Frost (AUS) WR 1251 by 7-5 7-6(4) smile

QF: (7) Jamie Baker WR 654 v (2) Robert Smeets (AUS) WR 503 (CH = 146 in 2008)

It's as strange to see Smeets outside the top 500 as it is to see Jamie outside the top 600. This is the first time the Dutch Aussie has won back to back matches since Rome Challenger qualifying in April, the first time he has won back to back main draw matches since he won the Poitiers Future in March and the first time he has won back to back main draw matches above Futures level since he qualified for the US Open last year. It doesn't look like he's been injured, just having a terrible run of form.

Jamie has met Smeets once before, in the Tasmania Challenger back in 2006, when he won 6-4 7-6(4), while Smeets' last match against a Brit was a loss to Boggo in the Manchester Challenger this summer.

Doubles SF: (4) BAKER/PROPOGGIA (AUS) beat (1) HENSEL/HUBBLE (AUS) by 7-6(3) 6-7(1) 10:8 biggrin

FINAL: (4) BAKER/PROPOGGIA (AUS) v (2) EBDEN/KADIR (AUS)

Also from AUS, it seems like Hewitt and Tomic aren't getting on at the moment http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/tennis/team-hewitt-fuming-at-wimbledon-snub/2009/09/16/1252780357083.html wink

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 17th of September 2009 09:31:48 AM