R2: Oliver GOLDING (GBR) defeated Daniel GARZA (MEX) (2) 6-3 3-6 7-6(2)

QF: Alexander SATSCHKO (GER) WR 645* Vs Oliver GOLDING (GBR)

Satschko has a CH of 259 and has been consistently around the 350 level in the end of year lists.

Smidster wrote:

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R2: Oliver GOLDING (GBR) defeated Daniel GARZA (MEX) (2) 6-3 3-6 7-6(2)

QF: Alexander SATSCHKO (GER) WR 645* Vs Oliver GOLDING (GBR)

Satschko has a CH of 259 and has been consistently around the 350 level in the end of year lists.

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True, but he did once lose to Jamie Murray in singles, so he can't be that good

 

All in all a good week for Oli.

Tennis36 wrote:

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hmmm, so in ollie's three biggest matches to date:


1. this one

2. olympic qf

3. wimbledon sf


ollie has won no more than 4 games in each. its becoming a bit of an issue, weird because he had beaten better players in previous rounds in all three tournaments

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Not really sure about that.  Seemed to be real extenuating circumstances in Singapore for the Youth Olympic QF in that he was severely dehydrated. OK, here he beat a currently higher ranked player but Satschko is an experienced player with a CH of 259 from Feb last year and indeed was 278 as late as Oct last year. He then didn't play for 5 months until the end of March and his ranking fell to over 600. Hasn't had a great time since but based on his current ranking being based on less than 8 months tennis and where he was before his 5 months out, I'd say he's pretty underrranked just now.   

Just Wimbledon to me that was a concerning and unexpectedly big loss so I wouldn't say any significant issue as yet.

( subsequent edit :  actually that being just the one match I even take out that the Wimbledon match was concerning, just a bit unexpected on the day )

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 14th of November 2010 08:05:07 PM

haha all i did was say the facts, people on this forum are so defensive, atm its no big deal, i just thought it was interesting fact

Strikes me that calling these "his biggest matches to date" is somewhat difficult. He won a succession of huge matches at Wimbledon, won matches in the Junior Davis Cup finals (and when he lost, lost 7-6, 7-6), can hardly have regarded his opening round match at the Youth Olympics against the number 1 seed as a small match . . . personally, I'd reckon that all of the latter were probably more significant to him than a R2 match in an obscure futures tournament. As Indiana says, we know what happened at Singapore; here he was just outranked. And so he had a bad day at Wimbledon . . . happens to everyone!