Week 40 - Futures F7 (15k) - Happy Valley, Australia

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 40 - Futures F7 (15k) - Happy Valley, Australia

Silver · County player

Imagine this conversation:

"What shall we call our town?"
"Happy Valley?"
"Seriously? That's the best you could come up with?"
"Got anything better?"
"How about Delightful Precipice?"
"..."
"Happy Valley it is."

Hilarious!

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

i would not fit in there at all disbelief

-- Edited by alex03maccy on Saturday 3rd of October 2009 10:33:58 PM

Silver · County player

I would be welcome on some days. I'd need a dual passport then.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

I thought Happy Valley was a racecourse in Hong Kong...

indiana · Tennis legend

L32 : (7) Jamie Baker WR 555 vs Jarryd Maher (AUS ) WR 802

Maher is a 20 yo, currently at his career high with best success a semi and 2 quarters in futures.

Hopefully this will be the start of of Jamie's route this week to his 6th successive semi final, 4th succesive final and 2nd succesive title.

With last week's title, he will already have surged back well into the top 500 come Monday's rankings with hopefully much higher to come.

steven · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

Jamie Baker should be seeded here as he looks to build on his recent return to form and looks for a fourth successive final.

Listen to an interview with him on BBC Radio Scotland here (interview starts at 31 minutes 13 seconds) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00n3lx4

That's a fascinating interview, well worth a listen if anyone hasn't listened to it yet.

Mikeduke · County player

R1: (3) BAKER (GBR) / PROPOGGIA (AUS) vs EASTON (AUS) / GREGORY (AUS)

indiana · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

Listen to an interview with him on BBC Radio Scotland here (interview starts at 31 minutes 13 seconds) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00n3lx4

Thank's Wolf for the reminder. I meant to listen to it sometime after your first post.

I am now getting messge : Sports Weekly: 03/10/2009 is unavailable at this time

I hope it will become available again to save me from my procrastination.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Doubles

(3) BAKER/PROPOGGIA (AUS) lost to EASTON/GREGORY (AUS) 6-7 (6) 6-3 4-10

Smidster · Challenger level

Thanks for posting this - really interesting

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, was really interesting to hear him talk about his struggles to get back to where he is now, and the real positiveness at the end.

indiana · Tennis legend

L32 : (7) Jamie Baker WR 456 beat Jarryd Maher (AUS ) WR 801 6 -1 6 - 4 smile

L16 : (7) Jamie Baker WR 456 vs (WC) Jake Eames ( AUS ) WR 1325

Hopefully a few more wins coming Jamie's way this week.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good start, keep it up.

Listened to the interview last night, good listen. Interesting to hear what he said about bullying in the womens game

indiana · Tennis legend

L16 : (7) Jamie Baker WR 456 beat (WC) Jake Eames ( AUS ) WR 1325 6 - 3 6 - 3 smile

Next up :

QF : (7) Jamie Baker WR 456 vs (4) Matthew Ebden ( AUS ) WR 453

It was a happy day for the seeds. All 8 of them got through in straight sets !

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 8th of October 2009 07:47:45 AM