Week 41 - Futures F8 ($15K) - Port Pirie, Australia

Smidster · Challenger level

RE: Week 41 - Futures F8 ($15K) - Port Pirie, Australia

helki · Futures qualifying

Really pleased for the guy. smile

Hope he can make it another final win. Fingers crossed.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Great to see Baker in another final and one more title would be the perfect end to the trip down under.

Ben W · Social player

What a run from Jamie, now 14 wins back to back, beating his previous best winning streak of 13 mostly in Texas futures
last year, according to Steven this puts him 4th on the all time list of Brits winning streaks all time list.

Also if Jamie wins tomorrow he will go joint on point for the year with Josh Godall, despite not scoring his 3 point until mid July!

Shhh · Challenger level

Jamie lost by a suprisingly convincing 6-2, 6-4.

A great, great trip this has been given his circustances. I imagine he will still have to come through qualies at Challenger level(?) but, I am keen to find out if he is ready to pick up any wins there yet.

steven · Tennis legend

Looks like Jamie finally ran out of steam cry

... or maybe he was just trying to ensure that he wasn't barred from entering the country for next year's AO wink

but what a fantastic run he's had down under biggrin

It'll be fascinating to see if he can take this form into Challengers.

I've added Jamie's winning streak to the (the ones we know about ...) GB all-time list at http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/index.spark?aBID=61841&p=3&topicID=15797495

indiana · Tennis legend

Huh, loser, and this guy thinks he can play in challengers

I did wink, I did smile

What a tremendous run Jamie has had in Thailand and then even more so in Australia, and as Shhh says maybe the number of matches just finally caught up with him a bit, although I do like Steven's alternative theory biggrin

So, during a 9 week period Jamie has played 7 futures tournaments, during which he has :

Won 3 titles with 2 further final appearances and 2 semi finals.

Won 31 matches out of 35, including a run of 25 out of 26 containing unbeaten runs of 11 and 14.

Raised his ranking from 794 to very probably inside the top 350 come Monday week's rankings ( including the neat trick of moving up 4 successive 100 tiers in 4 tournaments )

Not forgetting his Baker's Dozen of 13 successive victories over Aussies.

I guess Jamie probably feels this little trip has been quite successful biggrin

Hail the return of the real Jamie Baker

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 18th of October 2009 08:30:04 AM

Drew · Oct 18, 2009

Ditto...

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Ditto again

A great run and wonderful to see him back in form.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

I'm shocked he lost that final one, had to come to and end at some point though.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

to be faire jamie is probably totally gone by now. so many matches. its great that he has been winning but i hope he hasn't over done it.

Silver · County player

Can't argue with those stats though.

And yes, Indy, I think I agree with you. It's been quite successful. Maybe a 5/10, but it's still a passing grade...

I AM BEING HILARIOUS!

helki · Futures qualifying

Great set of results. smile

Would have been good if he could have won this one, but even so... Like everyone else, I'm hoping his confidence is sky-high and he can make inroads on the Challenger circuit.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Shame that he ended up losing the final but guess he ran out of steam at the end, and it has still been a very successful trip.

Hope he keeps the good form up when he comes back after a bit of a break and hopefully he will be able to keep this kind of form up in challengers.

wolf · Tennis legend

Wow I can't believe he lost LOL. Still, it's been an incredible run of for him and great to see after that long spell where he was a shadow of his former self.

I do think playing the first challenger in the States in week 44 is a bit too soon for him after all the tennis he has been playing recently, I'd rather he rest at home for a couple of weeks before doing Jersey.