Week 2 - Australian Open men's qualifying

Maza1987 · Challenger level

RE: Week 2 - Australian Open men's qualifying

Vandenburg · Futures level

The glass i half empty again guys. poor effort, worse than liverpool.
im sorry but are any of these guys realisticly ever going to be top 100, sorry but no, top 150 at best.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

so 2 days ago they were all going to qualify and now 2 loose and the world has ended, get a a grip man.

All three are better than their current rankings by a long way, you'd just hope the three of them pushing each other on with Goodall and Baker there aswell should push each other on like the top 4 girls.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Dissapointing but expected losses. Cmon guys, give them a break, they both got beat by people who are ranked higher than them, there's no shame in that. If they switched rankings with their opponents then we would expect both our guys to win their matches, so there is no shame in Bogdanovic losing to Ilhan or Ward losing to Marchencko

Vandenburg · Futures level

the world has ended, did you not here about hati f1 futures?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Brits never have done well in Oz, obviously each Brit has different expectation levels, but when was the last time that they were surpassed? i guess when one of the guys qualified (was it josh or Jamie?) i think Henman pretty much always underachieved there and Murray hasn't done as well as we'd hope either (so far....)

i'm guessing it must be down to the style of the courts, they probably bounce higher and play slower than a lot our our guys are comfortable with, and also the weather conditions.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Mervatron wrote:

All three are better than their current rankings by a long way, you'd just hope the three of them pushing each other on with Goodall and Baker there aswell should push each other on like the top 4 girls.

the only thing Goodall is good for pushing is a dustbin

Count, it was Jamie B who qualified for here in 2008...he took a set off Dr Ivo

-- Edited by The Knight on Thursday 14th of January 2010 05:12:00 PM

Count Zero · Tennis legend

The Knight wrote:

the only thing Goodall is good for pushing is a dustbin
Count, it was Jamie B who qualified for here in 2008...he took a set off Dr Ivo

-- Edited by The Knight on Thursday 14th of January 2010 05:12:00 PM

That's a bit harsh, Josh is ok, but i suspect he may be a little too much confidence based, and can take a while to build up.

ps the 'thing' is still freaky.

indiana · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:

The glass i half empty again guys. poor effort, worse than liverpool.
im sorry but are any of these guys realisticly ever going to be top 100, sorry but no, top 150 at best.

Yep, Vanderburg, your stuff about 3 qualifiers I always kind of took to be a big them up before knock them down scenario, when as was always quite likely they didn't qualify. The realistic amongst us never expected them all to qualify, and even two would have been an exceptionally good and against odds effort.

Tabloid journalists are good at that palava.

I guess you must have your fun.

indiana · Tennis legend

Mervatron wrote:

All three are better than their current rankings by a long way

I'm really interested in how you work that out.

Yes, they get occasionally ggod resullts against higher ranked players, so does just about anyone arounf their rankings, but like these othere players they are where they are because they can't do it consistently.

I fail to see what really separates our players from many around them.

Of course, I would like to see them improve and advance up the rankings and in fact possibly over-optimistically I have predicted as such, but they need to produce consistent results.

Better than their current rankings"by a long way" ? I'm not convinced particularly much better at all.

Silver · County player

Ahhhhhhh. Never mind. Was hoping they both might win but to be fair, Ilhan's progress has been pretty good in recent months so Boggo's loss was not unexpected... but would have liked a win really.

All down to Evo now. Hmmm...

Vandenburg · Futures level

indiana wrote:

Vandenburg wrote:

The glass i half empty again guys. poor effort, worse than liverpool.
im sorry but are any of these guys realisticly ever going to be top 100, sorry but no, top 150 at best.

Yep, Vanderburg, your stuff about 3 qualifiers I always kind of took to be a big them up before knock them down scenario, when as was always quite likely they didn't qualify. The realistic amongst us never expected them all to qualify, and even two would have been an exceptionally good and against odds effort.

Tabloid journalists are good at that palava.

I guess you must have your fun.

so your saying there loses are no dissapointment?

if so that means you are settling for mediocrity, i thought it was meant to be called great britain not average britain. Nations you liberated are now laughing at the british tennis players

As for a change of mind yes, its wise to hype up the event of having 3 qualifyers,just to encourage them, there mind set, but after those performances i dont no why i bother,not even the rebel aliance could save boggos conquest for a top 100 place.

wolf · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:

indiana wrote:

Vandenburg wrote:

The glass i half empty again guys. poor effort, worse than liverpool.
im sorry but are any of these guys realisticly ever going to be top 100, sorry but no, top 150 at best.

Yep, Vanderburg, your stuff about 3 qualifiers I always kind of took to be a big them up before knock them down scenario, when as was always quite likely they didn't qualify. The realistic amongst us never expected them all to qualify, and even two would have been an exceptionally good and against odds effort.

Tabloid journalists are good at that palava.

I guess you must have your fun.

so your saying there loses are no dissapointment?

if so that means you are settling for mediocrity, i thought it was meant to be called great britain not average britain. Nations you liberated are now laughing at the british tennis players

As for a change of mind yes, its wise to hype up the event of having 3 qualifyers,just to encourage them, there mind set, but after those performances i dont no why i bother,not even the rebel aliance could save boggos conquest for a top 100 place.

The state of British tennis is not the fault of Alex Bogdanovic or James Ward though.

I'm doubt the French are castigating Millot, De Chaunac, Ouanna, De Veigy for losing in the first round of qualies but that might have something to do with them having 13 DA's plus one wild card in the main draw.

I'm not saying the losses weren't disapointing, but all they can do is maximise their own talent, they are not responsible for the state of British tennis as a whole.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

im dreaming of murray evans r1

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Tennis36 wrote:

im dreaming of murray evans r1

haha i wasn't the only one to see the draw and think that...jesus that would be a fest of backhand slices!