Week 36 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Seville, Spain (Clay)

British_is_Best · County player

RE: Week 36 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Seville, Spain (Clay)

Drew · Sep 7, 2010

Well done James.

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

In truth James would have been better off playing Hernandez as he has been playing awfully these last few months. Great win though, Ventura has lost a few recently, but was still dangerous.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

An excellent win for James. We should remember that Santiago will have travelled back from NY over the weekend and may not have super fresh or re-acquainted with the dirt. However, James took his opportunity when it came, unlike most Brits. I hope he backs it up with more un-British behaviour by not losing to a much lower ranked player in the next round.

I think he moves back to hard courts after this tournament, right?

Steve

SMC1809 · All-time great

James is on the centre court today, so should be live-scoring somewhere. I suspects its on Bet365.

seagull · Hall of fame

James is off to Bangkok next week for 2 challengers so yes back to hard

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Good stuff Wardy. Seems to be making some real progress at last but does need to back it up against the lower opponents and bag more points. He's capable of a much higher ranking. Just needs more consistancy. Is he still being helped by Rusedski?

indiana · Tennis legend

James ranking should certainly be moving up the rest of the year simply with any points he gains, since he has no points to defend and many zero slots in his "best 18".

Based on his form over the last few months, I would think he has a real chance of cracking the top 200 by the end of the year.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 10:58:39 AM

Count Zero · Tennis legend

he needs to get about 100 points, (inc covering the 21 he's defending) so its certianly doable as he'll have 8 slots to fill. but again i think he'll need one really good week and reach a final, obviously a series of SF's etc would be great too, QF's just seem worth so little now :(

SMC1809 · All-time great

James could well be top 200 by the end of September. If he can win today and one further round (as mentioned by BiB, he is the highest ranked player in his quarter), plus 5 wins during the next 2 challengers in Bangkok (both $35,000 events), he'll have around 250 points which should be enough for T200

Edit: I started typing this about 15 minutes ago, but sent it just a minute ago, so this wasn't really in response to your post Count, more an expansion on Indy's.

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 12:01:05 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, about 250 points should do it.

He's already covered his last 21 points due to come off on Monday with the 27 points due to go on for his futures win last week.

So he effectively went into this week with 169 + ( 27 - 21 ) = 175 points.

So he just really has 75 more points to earn, and he's already got the first 8 of these by reaching R2 here.

90 for winning this tournament would be the quickest way smile

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 12:38:47 PM

British_is_Best · County player

James is currently inside the top 200 in the ATP race at 196 with his 183 points so far this year. I found a website which shows the race which is: http://tennislive.free.fr/race. It is updated continuously although doesn't include James' Futures win last week which will be added on after Monday's rankings are released I would imagine

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i forgot about those from last week. silly futures :)

SMC1809 · All-time great

James' match is underway already. He took the first set 6-0, but was broken at the start of set 2, and now trails 1-2*.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Normal service is being resumed. He has broken back and has just held to love. 3-2*