Week 2 - Australian Open men's qualifying

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RE: Week 2 - Australian Open men's qualifying

philwrig · Hall of fame

Top win Wardy, and by all accounts he played well which is even more important. Decent shout at qualifying now.

seagull · Hall of fame

Played Sijsling once before and lost but it was 6 years ago

indiana · Tennis legend

QR2:

Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 196 beat (q5) Igor Andreev (RUS) WR 114 7 - 6 (6) 6 - 3

(q32) James Ward (GBR) WR 161 beat Ivo Minar (CZE) WR 180 6 - 3 1 - 6 6 - 3

FQR :

(q32) James Ward (GBR) WR 161 vs Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 196

Good stuff. Seems to have been a very topsy turvy match with I was surprised to see the winner of each set being the player who served second. Basically James seemed to win the first and third sets well, but Minar dominated the second set.

Can't complain about arriving at the FQR and meeting Sijsling. Play near his best and James has a real chance of making the main draw.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 13th of January 2012 02:37:07 PM

helki · Futures qualifying

I shall have fingers well and truly crossed in the hope that James can make it two men in the MD. Up and at him Dino.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

There are only 9 seeds left in the draw, with 2 guaranteed to be put out, so even if Wardy does lose tomorrow there is a chance he will be part of the 4 highest ranked players to enter the LL draw. Of course we don't want that!

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Fanbloodytastic.

Lets hope this is Queensward playing and he can do some damage.

freerider · Futures level

is this going to be a best of 5 sets or is it only Wimbledon that does 5 set FQR?

steven · Tennis legend

freerider wrote:
is this going to be a best of 5 sets or is it only Wimbledon that does 5 set FQR?

Only Wimbledon, if I remember right. At least there are no 3rd set tiebreaks here though, unlike the US Open.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

When's he next up?

freerider · Futures level

he's second on tonight, first match starts at 01:30 our time

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Thanks, couldn't suss the time difference.

indiana · Tennis legend

And with the first match having been completed, coming up on Court 7 is :

Ward vs Sijsling

airsmashers · County player

on serve so far, been keeping an eye on the score while watching Laura. Seems to be pretty straight forward so far

*5-5

-- Edited by airsmashers on Saturday 14th of January 2012 04:06:13 AM

airsmashers · County player

Tie break time

*1-0

2-0*

3-0

-- Edited by airsmashers on Saturday 14th of January 2012 04:11:39 AM

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-- Edited by airsmashers on Saturday 14th of January 2012 04:12:40 AM