Week 12 Challenger - Pingguo, China - $35,000+H - Hard

Scratchy · Club Coach

RE: Week 12 Challenger - Pingguo, China - $35,000+H - Hard

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Wow! Its not often that a British guy can win five consecutive matches. I know that Colin Tweets, but would love for him to write a longer piece onhis recent success.

I'm sure he'll try to play more s ingles if he carries on in this vein, but as has already been said, he has to decide between Challengers and ATP events. Perhaps there is a happy medium? Some ATPs and some Challengers?

LordBrownof · Futures level

Thanks for those figures Steven!

I think perhaps my desire for him to turn to singles is motivated more by the poor form of the other British men. But even so, my suggestion initially was time sensitive, if the sport is about making a decent living, fine, but if it's about more than that for Colin, I don't see (from those figures provided) why he wouldn't decide to take one year to solely focus on singles, picking up doubles matches for the money when he can.

He still has enough time on his side to have a go for a year.

LordBrownof · Futures level

A number of Go Soeda's losses this year have been to players between 200-350 in ranking. Encouraging news for Colin!

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

From what I understand Colin and his family are not short of money and therefore the risk factor of giving singles a go may not be as high as some think. I would love to see him give it a go but as some of you have already stated that is probably a selfish desire down to the lack of singles success we are having currently.

SMC1809 · All-time great

At the rate he's going, within 6 months he could well be into ATP qualifying too on a regular basis. His win today will take him to approx WR 711.

Looking at the last 6 ATP 250 events he's competed in, the last DA for singles qualifying were:

Chennai - 1384 (doubles ranking)
Marseille - 365
Delray Beach - 271
St Petersburg - 44(doubles ranking)
Moscow - 1223
Bangkok - 92( doubles ranking)

Even if he sticks with the trend of only entering the singles at events where he's due to be playing doubles anyway, he will get into the qualifying draw for most events with his new ranking.

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: (1) Fleming/Hutchins d. Gong/Li (CHN) 6-2 6-4

QF: (1) Fleming/Hutchins v (WC) Chang/Zhou

steven · Tennis legend

LordBrownof wrote:
A number of Go Soeda's losses this year have been to players between 200-350 in ranking. Encouraging news for Colin!

He has also pushed Soeda very close before - he lost to him 6-3 2-6 7-6(4) in R1 of the Tallahassee Challenger in 2009.

steven · Tennis legend

A bit of a shocking stat - Colin is only the second Brit to reach a Challenger singles QF this year - James Ward in Burnie in January was the other one. Obviously we're hoping for at least one quarter-finalist in Bath this week too.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

I think Colin has a decent chance tomorrow. As has been said, Go has been beaten by some lowly ranked players tyhis year.

Having a crack at playing more singles is all well and good, but this couldn't be a wholly positive thing for his doubles. I don't think he'd often have to play doubles and on the same day (that would be a nice concern for him to have!) but the mindset is different and more matches may mean more injuries....

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Here is a link to l ive scores:

http://www.fromsportcom.com/v-2/2/10/v-221197.html

Colin and Ross have won the first set of their doubles.

I imagine Colin plays singles tomorrow...

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Colin and Ross win 6-3, 6-4. They were 5-2 up in the second and were broken, and were break points down at 5-4.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins vs (4) Michail Elgin & Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS/RUS)

The top-half SF pits the only remaining seeded pairs against one another. They've beaten Elgin & Kudryavtsev before, in straight sets, to take the President's Cup title in Astana late last year, but that ain't gonna make it any easier!

MiloTheCat · Lower Club Player

Colin lost 4-6 1-6

Oddly there were 5 breaks of serve in the 1st set with both serving >= 66%

seagull · Hall of fame

Fleming/Hutchins lost 6-4, 7-6(4)