Week 34 - US Open Qualifying

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 34 - US Open Qualifying

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

philwrig wrote:
tony_orient wrote:
James suddenly wins 4 games in a row to take the second set 6-2

Have to say I'm enjoying the excellent stream on the US Open site - HD quality with multiple cameras
My stream fluctuates between HD quality and a green scrambled screen. Is yours OK all the time ?

My stream is steady, good quality - despite my internet connection usually being rubbish.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

My stream is fine (using the one on the US Open site) apart from the fact it just showed Ward being broken to go down 2-3

Like Ward's break in set 2 it came against the run of play

philwrig · Hall of fame

Must be my computer, was struggling with the Dallas stream as well this week, constantly freezing on me.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

DT serving for it

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Ward has a break point but can't convert and Tursunov serves it out

RJA · Hall of fame

Ward had a BP but couldn't take it

GSM Tursunov

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Wardy loses and Goodall is broken first game

philwrig · Hall of fame

Somebody needs to tell Josh that Chelsea have equalised.

philwrig · Hall of fame

and now that they have taken the lead !

RJA · Hall of fame

Chelsea may be strolling to victory but Goodall is not

*1-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Easy peasy in the end for the Argentine: he wins by 3 & 2. disbelief

RJA · Hall of fame

Terrible result for Josh, the draw was as good as he could have hoped for and he didn't just lose he was thrashed. However I can't say I am that surprised. I said about 6 weeks ago that playing home futures events all summer would be poor preparation for the US Open and that he should have been looking to play some challengers instead. Since Wimbledon he has played 21 matches, only 2 have been against players in the top 300 and neither were close to the top 200.

S&V · Club Coach

Bad day today

steven · Tennis legend

Even though Tursunov is well past his best, it looks like Wardy put up a decent effort, especially given his own recent injury.

I am shocked that Josh lost (at all, let alone so easily) - unless it was just a very off day, it seems pretty clear that kundalini and RJA are right, and if today convinces him that he needs to get used to playing Challengers regularly if he ever wants to make any further progress, then it will have been worthwhile. However, he has given the impression recently that he realises this but has maybe had to do the UK Futures instead for financial reasons - it certainly can't be easy.

Looking back to 2006, Josh managed to qualify for Wimbledon having played mainly Futures until the grass court season started apart from a R1 loss at the Cardiff Challenger. During the grass court season, he got one win in Surbiton Challenger qualifying and another in Nottingham ATP qualifying. In between Wimbledon and when he qualified for the US Open too that year, his schedule went:

- Felixstowe Fut on grass - winner
- Manchester Challenger on grass - runner-up (beat Martin Lee & the Gooch, lost to Mankad)
- Nottingham Challenger on grass - QF
- Ilkley Fut on grass - out in R1
- Bronx Challenger on hard - QF (beat Fognini, lost to Cilic)

... so he certainly wasn't lacking in experience against good players before USO Q started that summer.