Week 12 Challenger - (€42,500) - Jersey, Great Britain

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 12 Challenger - (€42,500) - Jersey, Great Britain

steven · Tennis legend

2nd serve but Dom nets 5-5*

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

missed chance there

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

oh no mp

steven · Tennis legend

Danger - Oswald comes in after a short rally and wins the point - huge JAAAAAAAAA!

*5-6 MP

Oh no, perfect return and it's all over

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

had a look at 2 second serves at 4*-5 in tie break, thats where he lost it

freerider · Futures level

the difference in that final set was definately the oswald second serve, in the first and second it was practically point to inglot, in the third set, oswald upped his game.

very annoying. inglot not getting broken and still losing, gutted for him

philwrig · Hall of fame

Two poor points from 5-4 up in the tiebreak proved the difference IMO. Became too passive especially the point at 5-5. Still a good week though.

Josh · Challenger level

Argh about 5 mins too late. Probably a little optimistic but I wonder whta the chances are of Inglot ending year GB no.3? If he can serve as well as he appeared to today on the grass at Nottingham and Eastbourne then there's the potential to gain loads of points there. Hopefully he'll get a WC into Roehampton too.

steven · Tennis legend

A good week for Inglot, Milton and Smethurst (though I expected the latter to put upa bit more resistance against Niland today) but an awful week for the men in Jersey overall.

Last year, we had the winner, an additional semi-finalist, an additional quarter-finalist and a qualifier, giving a total haul of 118 ranking points.

This year, we had two in R2 and a qualifier, giving a total haul of 17 points. ashamed

indiana · Tennis legend

Unlucky, a match that could clearly have gone either way. Pity about not making these second serve points at the end.

But I was pretty impressed with his temparent and although yes he didn't drop serve, he faced 8 BPs and dealt with them well.

As I said really nice touch on volley, although sometimes I felt he could maybe have anticipated better at the net. Also, nice sneaks in, particularly earlier in the match, which maybe Oswald learned to negate.

Credit to BBD for his efforts, but alas, home challenger and no Brits left standing at the QF stage

Essentially we sent into battle just about the best British men's tennis has to offer, apart from Andy, at the moment and it was found most wanting.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 25th of March 2010 04:25:32 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

Shame to hear about Inglot, good to hear he played well.

Hope him and Eaton can do well in the dubs now and get revenge on Oswald as well.

Vandenburg · Futures level

yet another great day for british tennis.

James · Satellite level

Vandenburg wrote:

yet another great day for british tennis.

Gosh, talk about mood swings..

clayfan · Lower Club Player

Here was I wondering why the LTA have reduced the numbers of challenger events in Britain. As Jersey isn't really Britain. we only have the Nottingham one and perhaps one in Hertfordshire later in the year. Now I see why. Most of the prize money would be winging its way out of Britain for sure!