Week 19 Challenger ($50K) - Sarasota USA -Green Clay

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

RE: Week 19 Challenger ($50K) - Sarasota USA -Green Clay

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

And its the exact same result as Savannah, Ward loses 6-4 in the 3rd

Dissapointing really, Ward is a better player than Estrella but serve was seriously lacking this match and only has himself to blame

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Meanwhile Jamie B breaks *2-0 in the 2nd

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Baker takes the 2nd set 6-1

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Baker gets the break in the 3rd

*2-1

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Baker broken and it's

3-3*

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A mammoth deuce game results in Baker breaking and its

*4-3

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Jamie B

5-3*

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2 Mp's

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Jamie B serving for match

*5-4

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Jamie Baker WR 268 def. Michael Venus (WC) WR 540 6-7(1), 6-1, 6-4

Baker likely to play Sweeting again, not holding much hope against Sweeting, but Sweeting might be tired after his final last week

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Two more wins at challenger level between now and Wimbledon should be enough for Jamie B to break the top 250 and get a Wimby WC

helki · Futures qualifying

That's a relief. Thought for a moment he might blow it. Well done Jamie B

Count Zero · Tennis legend

thats a big shame for Ward, but these type of things often happen, and we've seen both Evo and Ward fall the 1st hurdle, and the pressure really is on when you have 1 good result from a year.

and so heading towards the grass season Mens tennis is not looking so great, 1 top 100 player, 1 top 200 player and 1 top 300 at the end of this week (As josh is playing a futures his points wont count to next week will they).

-- Edited by Count Zero on Tuesday 11th of May 2010 07:58:06 PM

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

This is true, but on the bright side these players will have basically nothing to defend for the rest of the year

Ward only has 59 points to defend untill January
Evans has 75 points to defend untill January
Baker has nothing to defend untill the end of August but then has 130 points to defend!

Where as you compare with the likes of Boggo who has got around 215 points to defend!

It may look bleak at the moment but i believe in the coming months alot of our boys will go up the rankings in the case of Evans, Ward, Baker and Smethurst and i think that they will all be in the 200-299 bracket in the next few months

I also have a feeling that one of the other men apart from Murray will win a Wimbledon 1st round match this year