Week 3 Futures - Turkey F2 ($10,000) - Antalya Kaya-Belek - Hard

RJA · Hall of fame

Week 3 Futures - Turkey F2 ($10,000) - Antalya Kaya-Belek - Hard

RJA · Hall of fame

A little surprisingly neither player is involved in the doubles this week.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Dan won 7-6 6-? (the last I looked, Dan was serving at 5-2, so I assume it was 6-2 in the second).

RJA · Hall of fame

L32: (6) Josh Milton WR 381 beat (Q) Andrei Gorban (MDA) WR 767, 6-4, 7-6(5)
L32: (7) Dan Cox WR 399 beat (SE) Sanam Singh (IND) WR 887, 7-6(5), 6-2

L16: (6) Josh Milton WR 381 v Tomislav Brkic (BIH) WR 498
L16: (7) Dan Cox WR 399 v Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL) WR 520

steven · Tennis legend

L16: (7) Dan Cox WR 399 lost to Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL) WR 520 by 2 & 4 bleh

freerider · Futures level

Milton out 5 and 2

RJA · Hall of fame

Starting to fear that both Josh and Dan have may have peaked and that the dizzy heights of last summer might not be seen again. They will both be outside the top 400 when the next rankings update is out.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pretty disappointing, but Dan and Josh are still only aged 21 and 22 respectively.

With the men, there is often a plateau and even backwards steps before guys really break through or at least reach new CHs, even quite a few years later. Doesn't take much looking at the rankings to find such players from around the world.

So, especially this early in a new season, I'd be reluctant to be making any real judgements just now.

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
Pretty disappointing, but Dan and Josh are still only aged 21 and 22 respectively.
With the men, there is often a plateau and even backwards steps before guys really break through or at least reach new CHs, even quite a few years later. Doesn't take much looking at the rankings to find such players from around the world.
So, especially this early in a new season, I'd be reluctant to be making any real judgements just now.

I agree with all of this and I am certainly not making any real judgements but I don't feel any optimism about were the careers of these two are going.