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

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

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

gjr · Club Coach

Jamie wins 6-1, 6-3

Looks like the only tough match he had was in the simi.

Smidster · Challenger level

Fantastic - Just goes to prove the interview right

Should take him upto around 375 in the rankings and back to GB number 6 (Past Colin and Richard)

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

very well done jamie, keep this run up.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Fantastic, Jamie's always been my favourite of the lesser Brits (see avatar!) so I'm thrilled he's working his way back to his best. There were points when I wondered if he was going to come back.

Now he's lit up the futures scene down under, I'd like to see him move up to challengers asap and hopefully be ready to qualify for the AO come January, back where he belongs

indiana · Tennis legend

GREAT !!

I also if anything get the impession he is beginning to win even more comfortably. OK, the semi went to 3 sets but he he won the first set and won the final set 6 - 1 so was never in real danger.

It is great for him to build his confidence up again by simply playing and winning so many futures. But yes, after he has finished with this Aussie futures assault, it looks like the time has come to test himself further with some challengers. Probably if anything though will need rest and recuperation first smile

He's been playing a lot of matches.

I have quite closely followed Jamie's career and up until last spring I really thought this was a guy steadily making his way to the top 100.

I am so so pleased for him that he has got over his problems.

So, he will indeed now succeed with 4 successive tournaments in moving from being ranked in the 700s to the 600s to the 500s to the 400s and now on a week on Monday to the 300s.

I am afraid, given he is entered for AUS F8, unless they suddenly start giving about 50 ranking points for futures titles that run must now end smile

I do though think Jamie is now back at a level when he can compete for more significant points.

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indiana · Tennis legend

Smidster wrote:

Fantastic - Just goes to prove the interview right

Should take him upto around 375 in the rankings and back to GB number 6 (Past Colin and Richard)

Wouldn't it be great if he only moved to no 7 though. Chris Eaton would have got to the final in Kolding smile

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

gjr wrote:

Jamie wins 6-1, 6-3

angry1 · Lower Club Player

Smeets ATP playing activity page shows his last 3 tournaments ending in straight sets defeats to Brits.

Assuming that's right it's now 4,can anyone remember someone managing that before?

What a fantastic margin of victory against a player he had dropped 7 and 12 games against previously,really suggests he is accelerating back to his best.Something I didn't think we'd see.

indiana · Tennis legend

And Smeets is scheduled, on seeding, to meet Jamie again in the quarters in this coming week smile

So that could be 4 successive tournament losses ( in a space of 5 weeks ) to just Jamie alone.

steven · Tennis legend

He's eating Aussies for breakfast now biggrin

Since mid-Sep: Jamie Baker 13 Australia 1 biggrin

Plus that's easily the most convincing of his three wins against Smeets on this trip.

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 11th of October 2009 11:09:56 AM

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Another great win.

I think he should stick to futures for the rest of this season maybe play 1/2 challengers and then at the start fo 2010 play a mixture of the two unless he also blows the challenger tour away.

Anyone know what events he's planning to play?

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

He might come back to GB and surely get a WC for the Jersey challenger in week 45?

Smidster · Challenger level

His only firm commitment seems to be this week in Australia.

Wouldn't surprise me if he then comes back for run in UK (Glasgow, Cardiff) before Jersey. Surely the LTA would be willing to give him WC's after what he has done 'Down Under'

Silver · County player

There's no way they can't not give him a wildcard, it would be a firm slap in the face to him otherwise.

"2 semis? 1 final? 3 titles? Meh. We'll give it to a 14-year-old who's never played a pro match before so we can scar the poor kid for life."

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