Week 24 - Wimbledon Men's Qualifying

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 24 - Wimbledon Men's Qualifying

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

I watched Liam v. Di Mauro from 2-2 in the final set. As I started watching, Di Mauroalways looked the more likely winner. He was winning his serve quite easily and Liam was being made to work - he was taken to deuse a coupleof times and he saved a break point. As the final set went past the 12th game, this started to change. Di Mauro's serve started to look vulnerable, his second ball being especially weak. Maybe he was tiring. I thought Liam might attack it more than he did. For the most part, Liam kept himself together, but was exasperated with himself on a couple of occasions. He converted his first or second match point. Overall, it was entertaining to watch with lots of big hitting from the back.

I saw a bit of Dustin Brown v. Semjla. Dustin has a tall and skinny chap with a languid style. He was slicing quite a lot, sometimes on the forehand too. An odd looking slice, he stayed very upright on it.

I may be able to go again tomorrow....

Cheers

Steve

Spectator · All-time great

Good to see Broady/Golding winning the matches they ought to win (rankings aside) -- a harbinger of good things to come, one hopes. And Rice/Thornley is a really impressive win that confirms that these two are definitely ready to go up the next level. Ward's match against Harrison looks to have been pretty impressive, too ...

Josh · Challenger level

Saw the end of both sets of Boggo's match but wasn't around for the decisive break in the 2nd set. He really shouldn't have lost the TB from 3-0 with two serves to come but just wasn't able to keep the ball in court enough. A lot of the points he lost were just unnecessary UEs, not even going for a winner. Knittel started to attack his 2nd serve a bit, which almost inevitable brought about a DF. Boggo was pretty lucky really to get to 2 set points but he didn't make the returns on either, the 2nd just pushing a 2nd serve return way long.

I went to watch a bit of Ward's match after the 1st set so when I got back Boggo was already a break down and never really got a chance in Knittel's last few service games. Di Mauro could barely last 5 shots in a rally at the beginning of Liam's match and it took him a set to get used to playing on grass again. Liam basically gave the 2nd set away but picked his game up in the 3rd and deserved to win.

Saw Hewitt there watching a few of the other Aussies which was a bit surprising since he's meant to be playing Eastbourne this week. I didn't realise he had a doubles WC with Luczak so I guess that explains why. Also Georgie Gent was there with a few LTA people so hopefully won't be too long before she's back.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

thanks for the info Josh. Seems that for whatever reason Boggo wasn't at the races yesterday. i wonder if, cause he's had so much past history at Wimby if it just gets to him now and he just can't play his own game. Think back to all the criticism he constantly receives about his Wimby WC's, then add his DC loss vs Austria was also at Wimby and all the criticism he got after that. who knows what must be flying through his head when he steps onto court there.

It's not an excuse for losing what seemed like a winnable match (and i'll be interested to see what Knittel does vs Gicquel today) but i just think that Alex needs to succeed elsewhere first, get his ranking back up and then he'll have a better chance at Wimby. I think he'll be off to the states soon and may well play the rest of the year there, he's had good results across the pond before so hopefully he can string a few things together.

scottie1 · Futures level

is Alex going to play newport grass tournament agree to many ghosts at Wimbledon. he should be ranked in top 200 I think.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

broady starting any minute

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

1*-2

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

1*-4, liam is competing thou, quite a few close games, not expecting a win for liam here, but for some reason a really think oli has a real shot at taking the next match, must serve consistently big thou, because thats exactly what he's going to be facing

Count Zero · Tennis legend

scottie1 wrote:
is Alex going to play newport grass tournament agree to many ghosts at Wimbledon. he should be ranked in top 200 I think.

yes he should do, i belive his pland will be:

Newport, Aptos, Lexington, Vancouver, Binghamton USOQ/Winstom Salam (depedninf on ranking), Tulsa. last yeat there was 5/6 challengers as well at the end of the year so i susepct he'll play them too rather than come back to europe. Still plenty of tiem for him to turn 2011 around.....

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

liam getting hammered 1-6 0*-2 0-30, possibly down to fatigue, hopefully the same can be said for janowics

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

still shows some fight thou 1-6 1-2*

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

liam loses 6-1 6-2, still decent progress and a very handy 8 points

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

so oli next up, survives the first game 1-0*

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

long pause at 1*-1 30-0