Week 38- Challenger- Bangkok 2 ($35,000) Thailand, (Hard)

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Week 38- Challenger- Bangkok 2 ($35,000) Thailand, (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

That's tremendous, all of them in the same section and along with quite possibly the most on form player in the qualifiers ( certainly non seed )

Seeing Rieschick there I was thinking looks as if he lost then, so maybe gone off the boil. But I see that he only lost his semi final to the no 4 seed, Kravchuk (RUS) WR 141, 7 - 6 6 - 7 6 - 3

So at least 2 of the Brits getting nout ranking points this week, possibly all 3. Really hope one gets through to the main draw though and best hope must be Wardy.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 17th of September 2010 05:48:09 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

Eaton and Ward to win 1st matches. Goodall, maybe depending on how hes actually playing at the moment.

Eaton vs Ward will be close.
Eaton leads head to head 2-1 if we count the Davis Cup playoff. I think Chris could take it looking at his result against Rieschick last week, just edged out.

Goodall and Eaton prob play dubs again, Ward if he makes cut?

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: (q2) James Ward WR 241 beat Sirawit Yumuang (THA) UNR by 6-0 4-1 ret.

QR1: Chris Eaton WR 524 beat Adirek Khundarnpinitvon (THA) UNR by 1 & 3

QR1: Josh Goodall WR 338 lost to (q8) Young-Jun Kim (KOR) WR 331 by 6-4 3-6 6-3

QR2: (q2) James Ward WR 241 v Chris Eaton WR 524

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 18th of September 2010 12:06:52 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

Shame about Goodall losing, after winning the second it looks like he couldnt press on to win it in 3.

Both convincing wins for Wardy and Eaton. Will be close, I think Eaton could scrape it, if he can rush Ward's big swings on his groundstrokes then he can dominate most points, but we'll see.
I want Eaton to win of course but i think Ward will scrape it.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Ah, those Eaton-coloured spectacles.

JM1138 · Lower Club Player

James Ward beat Chris Eaton 7-6(5) 4-0 ret'd

Ward plays (surprise, surprise) Rieschick in the FQR, who hammered the 8th qualifying seed Kim 0 & 1. Really tough luck.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Doubles draw:

L16: EBDEN, Matthew (AUS) & WARD, James (GBR) v GREMELMAYR, Denis (GER) & MATOSEVIC, Marinko (AUS)

L16: 3 EATON, Chris (GBR) & GOODALL, Joshua (GBR) v wc DOAKMAIKLEE, Weerapat (THA) & WACHIRAMANOWONG, Kittipong (THA)

I wonder if Chris will be fit for this one?

RJA · Hall of fame

Hopefully the retirement was just a precaution (a set and 2 breaks down) and he isn't badly hurt.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Says tendinitis in the knee on the drawsheet but who knows if that is accurate or a reason to give?

steven · Tennis legend

Come on!!

Revenge is sweet ...

FQR: (q2) James Ward WR 241 beat Sebastian Rieschick (GER) WR 431 by 3 & 4 smile

L32: (Q) James Ward WR 230 (new rankings) v Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) WR 195

H2H: 0-2, 2 & 2 Jersey 2007, 6 & 6 Zagreb ATP Q 2010.

mikeyp · Junior player

Well played Wardy, if I had to chose one of the matches for him to win it would have been last week where an additional 14 points were on offer compared to 3 for this win this week, but hopefully this will just be the start of things for this week

Ruben is definatly beatable though, he hasnt done anything lately apart from winning a futures in spain in June

Also, does anyone else think the cut here is very high for the lowest level challenger in Asia?

steven · Tennis legend

mikeyp wrote:
Well played Wardy, if I had to chose one of the matches for him to win it would have been last week where an additional 14 points were on offer compared to 3 for this win this week, but hopefully this will just be the start of things for this week

Ruben is definatly beatable though, he hasnt done anything lately apart from winning a futures in spain in June

Also, does anyone else think the cut here is very high for the lowest level challenger in Asia?

Yes I know, trust the German to win when it mattered most. Still, nothing more that could have been done about last week, and today's win was a good one over an in form (if possibly running out of steam) player.

I agree that for a low level Asian Challenger, the field does seem very strong here - perhaps because there were two Challengers here in a row with an ATP to follow?

mikeyp · Junior player

steven wrote:
Yes I know, trust the German to win when it mattered most. Still, nothing more that could have been done about last week, and today's win was a good one over an in form (if possibly running out of steam) player.

I agree that for a low level Asian Challenger, the field does seem very strong here - perhaps because there were two Challengers here in a row with an ATP to follow?

I think that has a fair amount to do with it, signing up you know you will be able to play for 3 weeks, as opposed to a trip to the depths of Russia for a week. Also I wonder if it can be a result of low cuts in recent years, so everyone has the same idea to sign up for a chance at some points, thus pushing the cut up

Either way, Wardy is in the field now with 3 points in the bag already and I would say not a bad draw either if he wins its the 8th seed in the second round. Actually I will go out on a limb now and say I would be slighty disapointed if he doesnt win that first round match.

Smidster · Challenger level

Good win - but of course only worth anything if he can follow it up

Bemelmans will be a tough match but one thing that could work in his favour is that the Belgian has to commute from Australia where he has been in DC action