Week 24 - Wimbledon Men's Qualifying

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 24 - Wimbledon Men's Qualifying

seagull · Hall of fame

Couple of all British ties!

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Not a bad draw in all honesty.

2 guaranteed Brit wins which should be won by Baker and hopefully Golding.

I expect Boggo (Knittel WR 196) and Broady (Di Mauro WR 153) to win

Unfortunately Smethurst (K.Beck WR 131) and good grass-courter A.Ward (Harrison WR 122) will get beat.

4 out of 8 would be good.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

steven wrote:
Two all-GB QR1 matches, not a bad QR1 draw for Boggo but he has a top 100 French player in his section again, a horrible draw for the Wardinator and pretty horrible for the other two as well.

QR1: (wc) Jamie Baker WR 377 v (wc) George Morgan WR 1000
QR1: (wc) Dan Smethurst WR v (q17) Karol Beck SVK WR 131 (CH 36 in 2005)
QR1: (wc) Josh Milton WR 316 v (wc) Oliver Golding WR 982 (H2H 1-0, 2 & 2, Eastbourne Q 2009)
QR1: (wc) Liam Broady WR 749 v (31) Alessio di Mauro (ITA) WR 1453 (CH 68 in 2007)
QR1: (wc) Alex Bogdanovic WR 388 v Bastian Knittel (GER) WR 196 (CH 157 in Feb, H2H 1-0, 1 & 4, Eckental Ch 2010)
QR1: (wc) Alex Ward WR 480 v (q14) Ryan Harrison (USA) WR 122 (CH 119 last month)

Di Mauro is hopeless on grass, avoids it like the plague

RJA · Hall of fame

steven wrote:
QR1: (wc) Liam Broady WR 749 v (31) Alessio di Mauro (ITA) WR 1453 (CH 68 in 2007)

You may want to correct di Mauro's ranking. He might be a little upset at you for demoting him by 1,300 places wink

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

unreal chance for 8 points for oli! liam with a decent chance aswell

RJA · Hall of fame

The Magician Santoro wrote:
steven wrote:
Two all-GB QR1 matches, not a bad QR1 draw for Boggo but he has a top 100 French player in his section again, a horrible draw for the Wardinator and pretty horrible for the other two as well.

QR1: (wc) Jamie Baker WR 377 v (wc) George Morgan WR 1000
QR1: (wc) Dan Smethurst WR v (q17) Karol Beck SVK WR 131 (CH 36 in 2005)
QR1: (wc) Josh Milton WR 316 v (wc) Oliver Golding WR 982 (H2H 1-0, 2 & 2, Eastbourne Q 2009)
QR1: (wc) Liam Broady WR 749 v (31) Alessio di Mauro (ITA) WR 1453 (CH 68 in 2007)
QR1: (wc) Alex Bogdanovic WR 388 v Bastian Knittel (GER) WR 196 (CH 157 in Feb, H2H 1-0, 1 & 4, Eckental Ch 2010)
QR1: (wc) Alex Ward WR 480 v (q14) Ryan Harrison (USA) WR 122 (CH 119 last month)
Di Mauro is hopeless on grass, avoids it like the plague

According to the ATP site he has only every played 3 matches on grass, winning just 1 of them.

I am sure it won't surprise anyone to know that his only grass court victory came against a Brit. He beat Goodall in R1 if Wimbledon in 2005 then lost to Kiefer in R2. The following year he lost to Alberto Martin in R1 and hasn't played on grass since.

-- Edited by RJA on Sunday 12th of June 2011 06:57:01 PM

Jajon · Strong Club Player

who was the last british qualifier male or female? Seems like a long time.. or am i just missing something?

RJA · Hall of fame

Jajon wrote:
who was the last british qualifier male or female? Seems like a long time.. or am i just missing something?

I think Eaton (2008) was the last on the mens side .

scottie1 · Futures level

Chris Eaton qualified and surged up rankings as aresult

scottie1 · Futures level

cannot remember womens karen cross maybe?

TimProper · Junior player

unreal. in the entire mens qual draw only 2 instances of countrymen playing each other in the 1st round. and you already know which instances those are i'm sure (if not, see above).

scottie1 · Futures level

Good luck to all the players but especially to Bogga want him to qualify

RJA · Hall of fame

TimProper wrote:
unreal. in the entire mens qual draw only 2 instances of countrymen playing each other in the 1st round. and you already know which instances those are i'm sure (if not, see above).

With 7 brits there was a good chance of at least 1 all British tie and frankly we should be greatful. At least 2 of our guys are assured of getting something.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good chance to get a few brits through.

Would be nice to se bogo and Liam win if this italian is a grass numpty