Week 2 - ATP 250 Series - Sydney - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 2 - ATP 250 Series - Sydney - Hard

LordBrownof · Futures level

How did James get a wildcard here?

seagull · Hall of fame

Would have to make Mayer big favourite but a loss would mean he can play Aus Open qualies so a decent consolation if that's the case

wolf · Tennis legend

Expect an Australian to get a wild card into Queen's in exchange for here.

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

wolf wrote:

Expect an Australian to get a wild card into Queen's in exchange for here.

Would like to see more of this, especially at the slams. It's time the All England Club got with the times and caught up with the rest of the slams on the wild card issue.

Silver · County player

Stuart Fraser wrote:

wolf wrote:

Expect an Australian to get a wild card into Queen's in exchange for here.

Would like to see more of this, especially at the slams. It's time the All England Club got with the times and caught up with the rest of the slams on the wild card issue.

They did very briefly. They had a reciprocal agreement with Australia for at least one year if not two. But very short-lived either way.

steven · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

Expect an Australian to get a wild card into Queen's in exchange for here.

Tomic got a WC into Queen's last year - I remember hoping at the time (somewhat forlornly) that it might be part of a swap, so with luck Wardy's WC here explains that one.

steven · Tennis legend

Apparently James (and Leon Smith) had to share a car to courts with his opponent, Mayer, and Leon was giving it some banter.

"On way to courts- they put my opponent #florian mayer in the car with me and leon....goooood banta from them!!! Muppets"

LOL

SMC1809 · All-time great

The match started and latest long enough for Mayer to win the first game before the rain came.

steven · Tennis legend

They got back on court very fast. Wardy held, Mayer held and then broke.

1-3*

Very odd serving stats (though it is early days) - 50% 1st serves in for James, 22% of points won when he gets his first serve in (1 ace + 1/8 others), 78% won when he doesn't (all but 1 df & 1/8 others)

SMC1809 · All-time great

James converts his first break point just when he needed to. *4-5

steven · Tennis legend

He's being made to work hard for every service game at the moment, but has just held for 3-5* Mayer serving for the set.

And Wardy breaks

*4-5

steven · Tennis legend

Unfortunately, he coildn't hold twice more and went down 5-7.

Intriguingly, if GB played Germany in DC (impossible at the moment though it is), these are the two no. 2s so it could be the 5th rubber ...

steven · Tennis legend

Despite Wardy having 2 bps in the 2nd set so far, Mayer has now won 5 games in a row

5-7 *0-3

-- Edited by steven on Monday 10th of January 2011 01:17:45 AM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Well at least he'll be able to make the AO qualies, with a good warm up under his belt and a nice cheque in his pocket.