Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Link Back -> Andrew Murray message board -> British men discussion section -> Week 23 - ATP 250 - AEGON Championships, Queen's Club
Post Info TOPIC: Week 23 - ATP 250 - AEGON Championships, Queen's Club
johnnylad


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 12606
Date:
RE: Week 23 - ATP 250 - AEGON Championships, Queen's Club
Permalink  

It was Inverdale and it wasn't too bad a question as per The Knight's assertion.

Ratty must be hating a brit doing well as it forces a little less cynicism out of her. Loving the new sigs tho Ratty

__________________
James Ward - Alex Ward - Kyle Edmund
The Magician Santoro


Top national player

Status: Offline
Posts: 3344
Date:
Permalink  

Fantastic performance from James, so much resolve after losing that 2nd set tiebreak, kinda feel gutted he doesn't have the opportunity to play Rafa as that would've been fantastic.

Btw James is now getting too good LOL, my sig contained too much letters so had to do some re-jigging!!

Btw when was the last time any non AM/TH/GR beat 3 top 60 players in a row?

__________________

   

   Wardy's T100 KO's 

09: Crivoi 87  

10: Ram 93 , F.Lopez 30 , Schuettler 72, Kamke 85, Russell 80

11:  Wawrinka 14, Querrey 26, Mannarino 54 

12: Andujar 36

13: Tursunov 67

 

 
johnnylad


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 12606
Date:
Permalink  

That is a great question. More wins from Wardy and your sig will have to go Top 80!

__________________
James Ward - Alex Ward - Kyle Edmund
steven


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 34418
Date:
Permalink  

The Magician Santoro wrote:

Fantastic performance from James, so much resolve after losing that 2nd set tiebreak, kinda feel gutted he doesn't have the opportunity to play Rafa as that would've been fantastic.

Btw James is now getting too good LOL, my sig contained too much letters so had to do some re-jigging!!

Btw when was the last time any non AM/TH/GR beat 3 top 60 players in a row?

I'd love to know the answer to that last question too but it's impossible to answer with 100% certainty unless you have all the data for the last N years in a form that a computer can run across, i.e. it's beyond me. I gave up on trying to find the last time a Brit other than those three had beaten top 15 and top 30 in successive rounds yesterday and asked Sharko, the ATP stats guy, thinking he might have the tools to find it out with, but no reply as yet.



__________________

GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
steven


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 34418
Date:
Permalink  

The Magician Santoro wrote:

Btw when was the last time any non AM/TH/GR beat 3 top 60 players in a row?

Come to think of it, I might be able to do better than that - in 1992, Jeremy Bates beat Michael Chang WR 7, Javier Sanchez WR 32 and Thierry Champion WR 50 to reach R4 at Wimbledon before going out to Guy Forget WR 9. Bates also reached R4 in 1994 (also losing to Forget, coincidentally) but didn't face anyone in the top 80 in the first three rounds!

I can't be 100% sure that 1992 is the last time, but none of the Brits other than AM/TH/GR who have reached ATP semi-finals or beyond since then have beaten three top 60 players in a row - the last Brit to manage that was Colin Dowdeswell at Johannesburg in 1983, when he beat Kevin Curren  in R2, Tim Gullikson in the QFs and Vitas Gerulaitis in the semis before going down to Johan Kriek WR in 5 sets in the Final - they were all comfortably in the top 60 six weeks later, the closest week for which a full top 100 is available on the ATP site.



__________________

GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
The Magician Santoro


Top national player

Status: Offline
Posts: 3344
Date:
Permalink  

Great work Steven! Much appreciated

__________________

   

   Wardy's T100 KO's 

09: Crivoi 87  

10: Ram 93 , F.Lopez 30 , Schuettler 72, Kamke 85, Russell 80

11:  Wawrinka 14, Querrey 26, Mannarino 54 

12: Andujar 36

13: Tursunov 67

 

 
kundalini


Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Status: Offline
Posts: 2430
Date:
Permalink  

That was generous from Tsonga. What a truly abysmal game! 2 dfs + a horrible error on an easy put away. The other point was an ugly error from JWT too.

James has played some nice tennis. Did well to hold first game in the 2nd set. Perhaps a few too many loose shots.

3-0

4-1 another good hold from James after his drop shot clipped the net and came back on his side.



-- Edited by kundalini on Saturday 11th of June 2011 02:32:10 PM

__________________
steven


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 34418
Date:
Permalink  

kundalini wrote:

That was generous from Tsonga. What a truly abysmal game!

That's the great thing about playing a GEM, there's always a chance they'll let you back into it. Full credit to James for once again coming back strong after a setback though!



__________________

GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
kundalini


Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Status: Offline
Posts: 2430
Date:
Permalink  

Almost recovered from 0-30 but a couple of careless shots and Tsonga eventually breaks back. Shame because James' general standard of play has been impressive. Sliced backhand into the net at 40-30 not clever.

6-5*



-- Edited by kundalini on Saturday 11th of June 2011 02:54:01 PM

__________________
S&V


Club Coach

Status: Offline
Posts: 740
Date:
Permalink  

Cmon James, this is it step it up

__________________
S&V


Club Coach

Status: Offline
Posts: 740
Date:
Permalink  

That was a bit different defense from Tsonga

__________________
S&V


Club Coach

Status: Offline
Posts: 740
Date:
Permalink  

So disappointing

__________________
kundalini


Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Status: Offline
Posts: 2430
Date:
Permalink  

Did well. Brilliant 2nd serve from Tsonga on set point. James should have attacked the net when he had the advantage on the final point.

__________________
Madeline


Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 12091
Date:
Permalink  

At least he put up a good performance to close a great week for him


BBC: they said Mannarino wasn't ranked much higher than James. Well okay, 54:216 is a lot closer than 54:1816. . .

__________________
Salmon


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 10013
Date:
Permalink  

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/


Badly wanted the all Brit final.



__________________

  
«First  <  1 … 37 38 39 40  >  Last»  | Page of 40  sorted by
 
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.
Link Back -> Andrew Murray message board -> British men discussion section -> Week 23 - ATP 250 - AEGON Championships, Queen's Club
Tweet this page Post to Digg Post to Del.icio.us


Create your own FREE Forum
Report Abuse 		Powered by ActiveBoard