Week 2- Australian Open (Qualifying)

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Week 2- Australian Open (Qualifying)

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Wardy's section

(13)Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) WR 125 vs. Jan Hernych (CZE) WR 239
Roberto Bautista-Agut (ESP) WR 172 vs. Yuichi Sugita (JPN) WR 166
Paul Capdeville (CHI) WR 167 vs. James Ward (GBR) WR 201
Joao Sousa (POR) WR 243 vs. (27)Josselin Ouanna (FRA) WR 154

With regards to Capdeville's form, although James himself is not in great form this year, Capdeville lost in the first round of Sao Paulo to Ignatik in 3 sets with a bagel in the 3rd. His best results seem to be on Clay with a Challenger title and final appearance on the dirt in the tail end of last year. With regards to OZ open, Capdeville has been knocked out in the 1st round of qualies in the past 2 years, both to players who at the time were ranked lower than James, so hopefully that is a good omen! smile

-- Edited by The Magician Santoro on Tuesday 11th of January 2011 11:23:57 AM

Miriambee · Futures level

5th (last) on court 13, so i've no idea what time that is going to be.
I somewhat dispute the only Brit in qualifying, I trust you haven't forgotten the women qualifying!

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Course not! But there's a special place for the women's qualifying in the women discussion section! :)

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

What was the cut off for the Men's singles qualifying draw?

wolf · Tennis legend

I think it was 287, so Boggo or anyone else wouldn't have made it anyway.

There's a live stream here, I'm guessing for Show Court 3 where they have packed the Aussies on - http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/video/live.html

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

http://www.yr.no/place/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/detailed_long.html

Looking at the weather report, chances are Wardy probably won't even get to play with the rain, unless they manage to relocate some to indoor courts and even then seeing Ward is last on his court i doubt he'd get to play today/tomorrow/whatever the day it is in Australia

steven · Tennis legend

It's coming up to 6.30 pm in Melbourne and Muller-Lindahl has just gone to a 3rd set but James has tweeted to say he expects to get on court tonight. It seems unlikely he'll get on Court 13, since they still have to get through Lapentti-Koubek as well as the final set of Muller-Lindahl but some courts are closer to finishing so he may get moved.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

The quality of the stream is excellent!!!! The best stream I've seen in fact, it is miles better than last time I watched an ATP stream.

I wonder if the quality will be as good for the main tournament when there will be way more people watching?

steven · Tennis legend

Never did I think I'd be happy to see Koubek hand out a bagel, but it means Wardy might get onto Court 13 in a few minutes after all!

steven · Tennis legend

stevemcqueen wrote:

The quality of the stream is excellent!!!! The best stream I've seen in fact, it is miles better than last time I watched an ATP stream.
I wonder if the quality will be as good for the main tournament when there will be way more people watching?

You're right, it's amazing - we'll just have to hope one of the Brits gets onto Court 3 at some point!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

tough start for Wardy as Cap takes a 2-0 lead.

steven · Tennis legend

Capdeville has served 3 aces in his first two service games!

But it's deuce on this one and Wardy has already had a bp.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

wardy breaks back only to be broken again :(

Count Zero · Tennis legend

a ladies match perhaps :)

Ward retrieves the break again. needs to find a hold tho!!!