Week 24 - Wimbledon Qualifying

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 24 - Wimbledon Qualifying

Josh · Challenger level

Smet been 5-0 down for quite a while now so looks like someone must have called for the trainer, who at most of the British tournaments is actually's Dan's dad.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Morgan had 2 break points but couldn't convert *2-5

Josh · Challenger level

Phillips losing 5-2, had 15-40 in the last game but couldn't break back.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Smethurst retires after being bagelled.

Looks like injury affected his performance and a shame for him that he couldn't perform as he would have liked in Wimbledon qualies.

Not looking good for Morgan as well a set down, so just the three getting through seems like the end result.

steven · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Smethurst retires after being bagelled.

Looks like injury affected his performance and a shame for him that he couldn't perform as he would have liked in Wimbledon qualies.

Not looking good for Morgan as well a set down, so just the three getting through seems like the end result.

Yes, effectively three of the four that seemed most likely to go through and the one disappointment, Chris, going very close indeed. It seems it's not that hard to predict these matches, in just the same way as it's not hard to predict the main draw matches where the Brits have a decent chance.

Very sad for Dan to have had his grass court campaign messed up by whatever's wrong with him.

Josh seems like our best hope now given the draws.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 14th of June 2010 02:55:56 PM

Josh · Challenger level

Do they play all of the 2nd round tomorrow or are some matches held over until Wednesday?

spud · Challenger qualifying

Big shame for Chris, could have been a big win, but hopefully he can do something in the dubs.

steven · Tennis legend

Josh wrote:

Do they play all of the 2nd round tomorrow or are some matches held over until Wednesday?

I seem to remember QR2 is split because they have to fit so many women's matches in tomorrow, and possibly because the FQR is played over 5 sets, they don't want to force players to play 3 days in a row.

Having started quite early today though, there's a good chance that all three will play tomorrow.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

i thought qualy was 5 sets?

steven · Tennis legend

Only the FQR.

Meanwhile, I seem to have accidentally got ACE back for convincing me that this would only be Heather's 2nd WTA main draw appearance after Miami.

I tweeted "Nice to see @joshuagoodall in happy & confident mood post-QR1. Back on form & with (7) Young out, no reason why he can't qualify."

nothing incorrect about that, but these compressed tweets are open to interpretation, I guess. She wrote:

"Whizzing over to Wimbledon for a moment, where Josh Goodall has said a few words after defeating 7th seed Donald Young."

-- Edited by steven on Monday 14th of June 2010 03:27:59 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

Young is out.

spud · Challenger qualifying

I would expect Josh to qualify now. He has a very nice draw.

steven · Tennis legend

spud wrote:

Young is out.

I know, that's what I said.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Play suspended, so I guess it must be raining.

Some interesting times for matches to be suspended... Matosevic and Polansky will have to come back out with Matosevic having two match points!