Week 31 - Challenger (€85,000) - Segovia, Spain (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 31 - Challenger (€85,000) - Segovia, Spain (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

Chris is getting out-aced 18-7 but is hanging on in there - 3-3* 30-30

steven · Tennis legend

BP!
2nd serve ...
saved

ace no. 19 for Groth - ad in

DF (5 of those each now) - deuce

ad in ... deuce ... ad in ... deuce ... ad in ... game Groth

3-6 6-3 *3-4

Is Groth going to turn the screw now like he did in the 1st?

steven · Tennis legend

Eaton breaks for *6-5 and will serve for the match!

steven · Tennis legend

3 MPs

2 ...

YES!!! biggrin

Wins 3-6 6-3 7-5

Chris Eaton = Brit-basher Killa! biggrin

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

Chris Eaton = Brit-basher Killa!

I like it!

Well done, Chris.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Yannick Mertens (BEL), David Marrero (ESP/ALT), Louk Sorensen (IRL) or Roberto Bautista (ESP) in Round 1, so no seeds...

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 2nd of August 2010 12:57:33 PM

seagull · Hall of fame

Hope he gets Sorensen - he has done nowt for ages

spud · Challenger qualifying

Well done Chris!!!

Followed it up to 1 set all and was thinking about whether he could keep it up. Thats a very big win for him and finally gets some points again, now looking at this challenger, its quite a big one and im sure he'll want to make the most of it now hes in the main draw with some top players. This is hopefully where his best tennis will start to come out.

Great to see hes ended another streak against brits, hes very capable of results like this, depends what Chris turns up on the day i think. When hes good, hes very good- of course when the serve is working as well, hes danngerous.

Im not sure what the courts are like there, but with 3 matches under his belt, he has had a nice bit of time to get used to them.

Hopefully he can have a run in the singles or doubles now this week.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

The Knight wrote:

this is the sort of match Chris would win...just as we write him off and say he'll never make it, he usually gets a win that makes us shift a little

don't call me Nostradamus or anything biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

L32: (Q) Chris Eaton WR 509 v Yannick Mertens (BEL) WR 219 - 10.00 BST on Tuesday

A strange connection between today's two Brit-basher bashers - Mertens lost to Jamie B's victim Ouanna in R1 of the Recanati Challenger last week and has won just 1 of his last 10 matches (since reaching the Biella Challenger QFs in May, where he beat Dustin Brown then Sorensen before losing to Phau), that win being against an unranked Swede in Bastad qualifying.

To make this match even more interesting, Chris beat Mertens 7-6(5) 7-6(6) on his way to winning the Glasgow title in January, ending the Belgian's 7-match BBS

-- Edited by steven on Monday 2nd of August 2010 04:51:11 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

I would think that was Chris's best win of the year so far, I even remember how someone said that Mertens seemed to struggle against Chris's game style.

Chris can go into this with nothing to lose now and probably with a slight mental edge due to him winning that one in Glasgow so narrowly.

-- Edited by spud on Monday 2nd of August 2010 05:11:14 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

First Brit win in the doubles:

(WC) Daniel Monedero & Quino Muñoz lost to Jamie Delgado & Jonny Marray by 4 & 4 smile

P.S. Only trouble is, they now come up against the Spanish second seeds, the Granollers brothers, in the QF!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 2nd of August 2010 06:29:49 PM

Vandenburg · Futures level

Eaton will be top 100 by end of the year. fact

seagull · Hall of fame

Eaton leads 4-2