Week 45 - USA F31 ($10,000) - Niceville, FL (Clay)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 45 - USA F31 ($10,000) - Niceville, FL (Clay)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

argh 30-15

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

5*-5, massive game here for kyle

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

kyle broken from 40-15 5-6*

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

chase holds to 40, gsm, tough to take, great three weeks for kyle thou

Jan · Hall of fame

soooooooooo close

indiana · Tennis legend

Darn cry But overall a great few week for Kyle.

korriban · Challenger level

30 points from 3 $10k futures in 3 weeks at 17 years old is a great effort, and a fine way to end the year. Losing 5 straight games from 5-2 in the final set is really disappointing, and I hope we find out a little of what happened. Assuming it wasn't a physical problem, it shows that the tennis scoring system really lends itself to a rapid momentum shift. Kyle had break points and match points, was 1 point from victory or holding serve near the end on various occasions but it wasn't meant to be. Long term, this defeat might be a superb learning experience, so long as he knows WHY it fell apart so close to the finishing line. Good luck for next year!

indiana · Tennis legend

Without watching it, I suspect it is an exagerration to say that it fell apart. As you said momentum can be quite a thing in tennis, and from what I read, at the least, from 5 - 2 Kyle still has had BP / MPs at 5 - 2, game points at 5 - 5 and it went to deuce in that final game. But if he can take anything out of what happened in these last few games, rather than just more being one of these things, then it will have been helpful.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 13th of November 2012 12:08:51 AM