Week 34 - US Open men's qualifying

steven · Tennis legend

Week 34 - US Open men's qualifying

indiana · Tennis legend

Don't know that Jamie's draw is too bad on the face of it. Whether he's good enough is another matter. Agree Boggo's draw is not nice if other matches go to plan.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 23rd of August 2010 10:46:42 PM

steven · Tennis legend

QR1 opponents

Strode is 23 and hit a CH of 483 last month just before he lost to Dom Inglot in a tight 3-setter in Ilkley. Morgan Phillips bagelled him in the 3rd set in Florida back in January and Slabba beat him 3 & 3 in the Dom Rep. last December.

So, a nice QR1 draw for Boggo, more than made up for by the horrors that could follow ...

Souza is 22 with a CH of 115 in April. He lost to Wardy in 3 sets at San Luis Potosi last year and has been playingthe same Brazilian Challengers as Jamie this month but their paths haven't crossed. Robert Dee and an American partner once took 6 games off Souza in a doubles match in Colombia.

I think Boggo would have a good chance of getting through this section, but I'll be (pleasantly!) surprised if Jamie does.

Still can't work out why the cut has virtually stuck since the middle of last week - it was totally different last year, but then there weren't any Brits right on the edge last year. furious

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Flembo's twitter:

Great meal tonight with @k_skupski, @JamesWardtennis, Leon Smith, Jamie Baker and Alex Bogdanovic. Jamie and Alex play qualies on Tues...

wondering if DC selections came up at any stage :p

steven · Tennis legend

LOL ... it does actually sound like it might have been a bit dysfunctional, so I'm glad they all had fun

I don't think Baker and Boggo are playing on Tuesday, unless they're going to add to the OoP later, Katie seems to be the only Brit down to play on day 1.

Smidster · Challenger level

Strode won his QWC by winning a national play-off competition which was open to anybody over the age of 14 and in doing so beat 858 other players

seagull · Hall of fame

Smidster wrote:

Strode won his QWC by winning a national play-off competition which was open to anybody over the age of 14 and in doing so beat 858 other players

Wow that must have taken him a long time

Count Zero · Tennis legend

well according to the BBC Baker isn't even attempting to play there

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/8938875.stm

indiana · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:

well according to the BBC Baker isn't even attempting to play there

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/8938875.stm

We're evidently also down to three women in the qualifiers, no Heather Watson.

Who says the Beeb can be bad regarding tennis when they can scoop stuff like this that noone else was remotely aware of

indiana · Tennis legend

Ah, it appears Jamie and Heather have decided they want to play anyway and the US Open must have found them qualifying spots.

The Beeb is on to this latest news as well and has updated the above link.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

ahh good work all round guys.

Boggo *should* get through his 1st rd. but things get swiftly tougher. He *can* beat everyone in his section but he'll need to find better form than he displayed over the summer to do so.

tough all round for Jamie to be honest. from what we've seen recently he is maybe struggling for consistency which obviously is not good for a tennis player and whilst he could easily beat any of those guys on a one off his problem will be that he's got to beat 3 of them in a row.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

So is Wardy hanging around as first ALT?

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Is he not second alt? Marius Copil (who he?) ahead of him? Maybe my information is out of date.

steven · Tennis legend

Smidster wrote:

Strode won his QWC by winning a national play-off competition which was open to anybody over the age of 14 and in doing so beat 858 other players

Well spotted/remembered, I knew I'd seen his name in the news somewhere recently.

He's trying to choose between becoming a tennis player and a judge ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-24/harvard-law-can-wait-as-u-s-open-beckons-for-no-641-tennis-player-strode.html

There could be a fair bit of media interest iin this match after his play-off win, but it might be quite subdued on court because Blake and Alex do have one thing in common - from the end of http://www.worldtennismagazine.com/archives/2929:

In the [QWC playoffs] final, he confronted Cecil Mamiit of South Pasadena, Calif., a 34-year-old who is retired from the ATP wars and who played a strong opening set. Strode settled down to play a little safer, won the second set and, after failing to serve out the match at 5-4 and 6-5 in the third, girded himself for the tiebreak, which he won 7-1.

He didnt put on much of a celebration on court. Somewhat muted, he described it. Im not a real expressive guy.

Of course, well see about that if he wins his first round qualifying match at the Open.

seagull · Hall of fame

Madeline wrote:

Is he not second alt? Marius Copil (who he?) ahead of him? Maybe my information is out of date.

Copil played New Haven qualies so he is definately out there worst luck