Week 4 - Futures F3 ($10K) - Weston, FL, USA - clay

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 4 - Futures F3 ($10K) - Weston, FL, USA - clay

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

to me doesnt really need explaining, how many times have you seen a player lose a set they should of won then fade in the final set. oli golding has done it a few times. maybe at 5-2 and 5-4 kyle was thinking about the final heartache last year and it happening again, i dont know. but yeh, he definetly didnt tank, thats definetly for sure. none the less it was very dissapointing, always felt he was in control up until that point. On a positive note, the performance was definetly there, he has no problem match and even bettering these guys

freerider · Futures level

korriban wrote:
Bob. Prefer your theory to mine too, if truth be told! Although I'd say Kyle appears to be much stronger and fitter at the same age.
Freerider. I'm probably wrong on this one, after all it is a bit far fetched. Idiotic definitely not - these are young kids playing in tournaments where the short term result isn't that important in the longer term scheme of things - more the process of coping with weeks of high level competition against men day in day out. I suspect that Liam, Luke and James have all long gone back to the UK, so he's on his own (as a player) for the first time. And with 13 wins out of 15 already, it was very much mission accomplished before this match. As I said I'm probably wrong, but I'd love to know what really happened out there.

-- Edited by korriban on Thursday 24th of January 2013 07:07:15 PM

If you think that these are young kids playing in tournaments whhere the short term results are not important blah blah blah then why in gods name have you been spending the last three weeks constantly moaning EVERY DAY that they are playing lots of matches and not getting any ranking points, and arguing how insane that was. Or have you had a change in heart now upon reflection?

Anyways good three weeks from Kyle, very encouraging, hoping for a strong year from him (and all of the boys of course!)

-- Edited by freerider on Friday 25th of January 2013 06:36:26 AM

-- Edited by freerider on Friday 25th of January 2013 06:37:17 AM

RJA · Hall of fame

korriban wrote:
Alright alright! Sorry!

No need to apologise. We should be able to have forceful, albeit civilised, debate without taking things personally.

Spectator · All-time great

We have no idea what happened -- but like others, I cannot imagine that Mr Edmund "threw" the match. The good news is that he has shown extraordinary consistency throughout this tour, beating those players whom one would expect him to beat as they were ranked below him, beating some players who were ranked above him, and losing only to players who are (or had been) ranked significantly higher than he. A very good set of matches overall -- very encouraging.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes freerider, and whatever the general motivations for playing these US futures, it remains bizarre that Kyle would throw a match after all these previous matches when if he was in the QF he would be just one more win away from some decent pointd, i.e. 6 points at least. Plus WTF would you spend the time and energy getting into such a great match position in the first place ?!

That would be taking match practice against overconcern about ranking points to an absurd level.

I still wonder what really did go wrong, although as has been said not exactly unique.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

It doesn't really matter how many ranking points they didn't get this tour. It's whether they are good enough in the long term. Probably only Kyle maybe Luke will make top 300, James and Liam probably not. The cream will alway rise to the top when it matters.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Kyle is clearly a talented young British player. surely we know the process by now. it's the kyleacoaster.

i really don't think it's worth reading too much into this, it's one match, and as others have said it's hardly the 1st time something like this has happened. If it had been the reverse i doubt we'd have been agonising over what happened to the opponent etc