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Not surprised to see Dom turn up here in the doubles, but a bit perplexed by his choice of partner, "Big Jessie" Levine! disbelief And gedda load of their opponents in the first round:

R1:  Dominic Inglot & Jesse Levine (USA) vs (2) John Paul Fruttero & Raven Klaasen (USA/RSA) bleh

Let's hope the new scratch pairing can enjoy as much success as Dom & TCH did in Charlottesville last week.



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Eaton playing Kutrovsky in the final qualifying round. Lost the first set on the tie break.

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Eaton loses 7-6(5) 6-3

First in line for LL but thats not the position you want to be in obvs

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Jamie Baker takes the first set off Denys Molchanov by 6-3.  Keep it going, Jamie, .



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Looking promising:  Jamie's breaks for a *3-1 lead in the second set!



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JB wins by default whilst leading 6-3 3-1. Lets hope he tweets to explain what happened.



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Stircrazy wrote:

Looking promising:  Jamie's breaks for a *3-1 lead in the second set!

Molchanov must have had some kind of injury problem, as he defaulted at 2-6 1-3 to Jamie. smile



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Wouldn't an injury be recorded as a 'Ret' rather than a 'Def?



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It says "def" in the official results . I had some trouble finding "Nashville" - the ATP has it as Knoxville.

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Madeline wrote:

It says "def" in the official results . I had some trouble finding "Nashville" - the ATP has it as Knoxville.

I have no idea of the line of demarcation between "retirement" on ground of injury & "default", whatever that may be, so I just assumed an injury of some kind when I saw "default" on the LS.  Either way, Jamie emerged as the winner ( smile ), though it would be useful to know for future reference where a "default" kicks in...  Any suggestions anyone?

You're right about Nashville/Knoxville, Mad.  I simply read what I expected to see (Knoxville), when I looked for the draws/live scores on the ATP site, so paid no attention to the detail.  Corrected now, though. wink



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I always assumed that default was effectively disqualification.

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Hey everyone.  Hope things are going well.  Let me give you a little insight into what happened.  I talked to Jamie after the match and this is what he told me.  After Jamie broke to go up 3-1 his opponent hurled his racquet to the back wall and it struck a ball kid.  Immediate default. 

Jamie and I have become very close over the last few years.  He trained at my club for a week a couple of weeks ago.  My two boys love him to death.  Great guy all around.  Have also become good friends with his coach Keith.  Sorry I haven't been over here in awhile.  Hope to stay in touch more often.

By the way, our Dallas Challenger is Feb 4-11 next year and we will be a 100k event.  Cheers.



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Thanls very much, TBarM7 for explaining all.

A bit like like that hooligan Tim Henman who was once thrown out of Wimbledon when he thrashed a ball and it hit a ballgirl on the head.

Re retirement / default, I would have thought it a pretty general disctinction that if you give up the match through injury / illness you retire, and if you are thrown out of a match for your wrong actions of some kind, i.e you are disqualified, you default. Can't immediately think of what general grey areas there might be.

When I saw "default" I was thinking that Molchanov must have committed some sort of serious naughty.



-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 9th of November 2011 01:28:45 AM

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Tbar, thanks for clarifying this for us. Does Jamie stay with you when he competes in the Dallas area?



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indiana wrote:

Thanls very much, TBarM7 for explaining all.

A bit like like that hooligan Tim Henman who was once thrown out of Wimbledon when he thrashed a ball and it hit a ballgirl on the head.

Re retirement / default, I would have thought it a pretty general disctinction that if you give up the match through injury / illness you retire, and if you are thrown out of a match for your wrong actions of some kind, i.e you are disqualified, you default. Can't immediately think of what general grey areas there might be.

When I saw "default" I was thinking that Molchanov must have committed some sort of serious naughty.

Yes, there's a clear distinction between ret. and def. and didn't take long to find out why it happened on Twitter (thanks to TBarM7 for clarifying the exact circumstance - I has immediately assumed the ballboy was at the net, and like Indiana, immediately thought of Henman 1995, though that was a ball not a racket obviously)

"Boo Denys Molchanov 4 hitting my son with his racquet during the @KnoxChallenger . Yay to the officials for ejecting him from the" ... from the ballboy's mother

"Bruised thigh, nothing serious. Molchanov definitely learned a lesson the hard way." ... from the tournament itself

L16: (Alt) Jamie Baker WR 284 v (7) Michael Yani (USA) WR 174 (CH 143 in 2010)

Jamie actually leads the H2H 1-0, having beaten Yani 6 & 3 in the Lexington Challenger QFs in 2007.



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