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steven


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The bookies make the semi just over 60:40 to James ... and to be fair, if you'd offered James a Challenger semi against a junior slam champion ranked 843 in the world and playing in his first Challenger main draw, I think he'd have taken it!



-- Edited by steven on Friday 8th of February 2013 12:24:45 PM

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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

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Julia Carrot


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Well that's great news to switch on to. Well done James

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Great win, AO Junior Champion Kyrgios in the semis. Would be interesting to see the odds for this one given the Aussie's undoubted potential yet Wardy's relatively smooth run so far and comfortable victory over the top seed.

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Excellent As you may have gathered from my post yesterday, I thought James had a good chance in this one but the scoreline is particularly impressive.

QF: James Ward WR 263 beat (1) Yuichi Sugita (JPN) WR 140 (CH 116 last Nov) by 2 & 3 biggrin

SF: James Ward WR 263 v (WC) Nick Kyrgios WR 843 (but current junior no. 1 after winning the AO boys' title)

Unless I've missed something, this will be Wardy's first Challenger singles SF since he won the Vancouver title 18 months ago in Aug 2011 (and his best points haul since then apart from Wimbledon) and if he beats Kyrgios, he will draw level on points with Jamie Baker.



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Shhh


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Certainly I am hoping for a title but this semi looks very tricky to me...............everything crossed!

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And I certainly took it as a positive statement. I just thought it good to contemplate James winning some Challengers this year given how long we'd gone without one.

There honestly wasn't any other message meant and I'm sorry if my wording made you think otherwise.

I will often add context and stats just because it interests me, and I could have been replying similarly to anyone.

Anyway, yes, looking even better now.

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Shhh wrote:

Certainly I am hoping for a title but this semi looks very tricky to me...............everything crossed!

I'll second those sentiments, Shhh.  The er mat has been pressed into service... wink



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Cracking win in the Q/F - agree that the S/F looks like a 50/50 match. Lets hope that James experience can be the deciding factor.

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PS apologies for the variations of Krygios.



-- Edited by murray_2k9 on Saturday 9th of February 2013 04:03:53 AM

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That's a nice way for James to celebrate his 26th birthday biggrin

SF: James Ward WR 263 beat (WC) Nick Kyrgios (AUS) WR 843 by 6-4 5-7 6-1

James is now level on points with Jamie Baker.

FINAL: James Ward WR 263 v (SE) Matthew Barton (AUS) WR 345 (= CH)

H2H 1-0 - James beat Barton 3-6 6-3 7-6(3) in the semis of Kaohsiung Fut. last April. Barton is at a career high after reaching the Burnie semis last week, where he lost to our old friend Stéphane Robert.

James is the first Brit to make a Challenger singles Final since he himself won Vancouver 18 months ago. He has now made 4 of GB's last 5 Challenger singles Finals and is only the third Brit this century to make more than three Challenger singles Finals, after Boggo, who has made 13 (W 9 L 4), and Big Arv, who made 7 (W 2 L 5) or 5 (W 2 L 3 ) if you count the 21st century as not starting until 2001.

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I watched both James and Kryios play the QF matches, and I have to say i think Wardy will have too much pace. My money is on him!

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First set on serve until 5-4* Wardy fights back from (I believe) 40-0 down in the game to break and take the first set *6-4


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1-1 both holds to 15

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*2-1 hold to 30

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*2-2 Krygios saves bps and holds to 40

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