Week 37- Challenger ($35,000) Bangkok, Thailand (Hard)

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Week 37- Challenger ($35,000) Bangkok, Thailand (Hard)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Ouch. That's tough to take on the face of it but a good first round win means an open draw when you draw a top seed first up.

RJA · Hall of fame

The Magician Santoro wrote:

Ward and Goodall are in the Main Draw here and how about this for their draws.

James Ward vs. Michael Russell (1) WR 80

Josh Goodall vs. Go Soeda (2) WR 111

Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry........

That is taking the **** furious

spud · Challenger qualifying

anyone notice that Chris lost a real close one in 1st round of quals :/

losing 6-4 5-7 6-4 ro Reister.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity for Chris cry

Decent looking effort, but still ultimately three rounds short of collecting any ranking points.

Whether, particularly with so few wins of late, he'd not be better trying to get ranking points in futures on reasonably fast hard courts back in the UK I'd suggest is very open to arguement.

But then Chris's schedule for a long time has more than slightly puzzled me.

Or is he almost giving up on singles too and this is some doubles mission ?

spud · Challenger qualifying

I think he performs at challenger level better anyway.

Has had quite a hard time with injury, hence the layoff since Istanbul? Looked to be coming back into some sort of form in Segovia as well :/

As for his schedule i assume the courts are pretty quick there- two challenger events followed by an ATP quals event if he gets in, sounds pretty logical.

He teams up with Goody in dubs, 3rd seeds.

Ward also in dubs.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Doubles:

L16: EBDEN, Matthew (AUS) & WARD, James v BOGOMOLOV JR., Alex (USA) & GREMELMAYR, Denis (GER)
L16: [3] EATON, Chris & GOODALL, Joshua v NIELSEN, Frederik (DEN) & SUGITA, Yuich (JPN)

The winners will meet in the QF.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

spud wrote:

anyone notice that Chris lost a real close one in 1st round of quals :/

losing 6-4 5-7 6-4 ro Reister.

not reister bu7t rieschick wr 423, reister is wr 106 now after his run at the FO.

steven · Tennis legend

1st set

JG holds to love
GS holds to 15
JG holds to 40
GS holds to 15
JG holds to 30

3-2*

GS holds to love
GS breaks to 40
GS holds to love
GS breaks to 30

3-6 cry

2nd set

GS holds to love
JG holds to 40
GS holds to 15
JG holds to 30
GS holds to love
JG holds to 40
GS holds to love
JG holds to 40
GS holds to love

*4-5

So in the 2nd set, Soeda has lost just one point in serve and has got to deuce on Josh's serve every time, I can't see Josh holding out much longer ...

steven · Tennis legend

Soeda breaks to love to win 3 & 4

He won 6 of his 9 service games to love and the other 3 to 15 while breaking Josh three times in the most important parts of the two sets and taking him to deuce 4 more times.

A pity, since the only other time they played (in Cremona earlier this year), Soeda won in two t/bs, the first going to 19-17, which made me think it might be close this time.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, pity that Josh couldn't put pressure on Soeda's serve at all and in a way the scoreline is quite kind to Josh.

However, it's games and sets that matter and I guess he was still very much in at * 4 - 5 down in the second set, but not to be.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

The forecast for today and tomorrow is rain.......

-- Edited by stevemcqueen on Monday 13th of September 2010 01:47:12 PM

-- Edited by stevemcqueen on Monday 13th of September 2010 01:49:25 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

James due first up tomorrow on Court 5 at 10 am local time ( 4 am BST ), so hopefully good news to wake up to.

Fly in the ointment as steve said could be the weather. The latest I see for both tomorrow morning and afternoon is : Widely scattered thunderstorms, mostly cloudy.

Smidster · Challenger level

Well a win is a win

James Ward def Michael Russell (1) WR 80 6-3 ret

Source - http://www.facebook.com/russelltennis

Shhh · Challenger level

Russel had Thai version of Deli Belly by the looks of it. Hard to celebrate but very happy none the less, the draw opens up with that and becomes another chance to notch up a worthwhile points score.