Week 40 - Challenger ($100,000) - Sacramento CA, USA - Hard

Count Zero · Tennis legend

RE: Week 40 - Challenger ($100,000) - Sacramento CA, USA - Hard

seagull · Hall of fame

and now it's raining

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i think jb's match should havre finished now as the match after it is on (all suspended by rain) but it's not in the results

edit, either i'm going bonkers or my app oop has just changed and now baker is after popisil/de bakker

-- Edited by Count Zero on Tuesday 4th of October 2011 08:10:17 PM

seagull · Hall of fame

started again and Wardy saves BP's to hold in first game

seagull · Hall of fame

This is really a struggle..has saved 5 BP's in this set so far 2-1* up

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Young Jack Sock is a grand slam champion isn't he? It seems to be showing

Although the score is 5 -4* Wardy is barely getting any return points this set.

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Tuesday 4th of October 2011 08:59:01 PM

steven · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
Wardy is 0/4 on BP's while Sock is 1/1

All of Wardy's bps came in the very first game of the match.

Eek last time I looked, James was a m/b up in this tiebreak, and now he has lost it 7-3

steven · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:
aparently strode played really well vs baker so no need for steven to get his special smiley out :)

Not sure what you mean by that LOL, but you made a good point about the intensity of tennis matches at this level and the effect that might have on scores in FQR matches, even if a player isn't the sort who would be likely to consider tanking.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

V. Disappointing for Wardy.

Great result for Jack Sock.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Count Zero wrote:
aparently strode played really well vs baker so no need for steven to get his special smiley out :)
Not sure what you mean by that LOL, but you made a good point about the intensity of tennis matches at this level and the effect that might have on scores in FQR matches, even if a player isn't the sort who would be likely to consider tanking.

the tank driving across the page :)

shame for Ward, unless baker turns it around later today sacranento doesnt look like a happy hunting ground for the brits.

steven · Tennis legend

That's actually Wardy's first defeat in R1 of a Challenger main draw since Tallahassee just under 6 months ago - he had won 8 Challenger R1 matches in a row since then, though after the first two of those he lost in QR1 of the Challenger in Alessandria.

Tallahassee was his fifth Challenger R1 loss in a row, which shows how far he has come in the last 6 months!

Count - the original OoP for today did change overnight after some of yesterday's matches were rained off.

Edit: Ah, the tank! LOL I hadn't even thought about that.

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 4th of October 2011 09:35:06 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Jamie lost 6-1 3-6 6-4. Given yesterday's result and the first set score, it appears Jamie did well to take the second set.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Don't think the doubles has been mentioned yet:
R1: Simon Greul (GER) & James Ward vs (3) Freddie Nielsen & Travis Parrott (DEN/USA)

James & Simon were replaced by the qualifiers, Duclos & Hubble. It would appear that James has some kind of wrist injury. cry