Week 15 - Greece F2 ($10,000) - Heraklion (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 15 - Greece F2 ($10,000) - Heraklion (Hard)

RainDelay · Pro player

Goodall currently 4-6 1-2* down

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RainDelay wrote:
Goodall currently 4-6 1-2* down

Make that 4-6 1-4*. cry Can't see him digging himself out of that particular hole somehow. hmm

RJA · Hall of fame

He got a break back but was then broken yet again and lost 6-4, 6-2

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Shoot! Was hopeful Josh could get at least a couple of points this week.

korriban · Challenger level

Unfortunately on this form I can't see any way Josh will secure his Wimbledon WC by way of the (as we know, rather dubiously and selecively applied) LTA top 250 ranking criterion, and I also don't see any reason why they are likely to do him too many favours generally.

He's also down for weeks 16 and 17 in Greece, which would be 12 $10k tournaments in a row in 2013. Still no CH entries at all (which must have been part of the original plan - well at least you'd hope so, otherwise it really makes no sense) and it won't be long before the first Nottingham Challenger comes around at this rate.

Now maybe if Josh had started 2013 well, he'd have gone down the hard court Challenger route by now, and perhaps he sees $10ks as the only sensible way of playing himself back into form. There's a rock and hard place scenario developing here.

I think Josh G and Jamie B need some change of plan or radical shift in approach, because Plan A isn't working and so there's not much to lose at this point. Wishing him well - not nice to see.

RJA · Hall of fame

Actually Josh isn't down to play in week 17. He needs some big points next week just to stand still because he has another 18 points coming off at the start of week 18. An early defeat next week will see him close to being outside the top 300.

RJA · Hall of fame

Bloomers lost the first set 7-5

He had a set point at 5-4*

paulisi · Tennis legend

Bloomers has a break in the second set.

As for Josh - his singles form is amost as bad as Mel South's. There is no way he deserves a WC for Wimbledon and i wouldn't even give him a WCQ for Queens.

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

agree!

indiana · Tennis legend

Really disappointing from Josh lately. Sad to see.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Anyone know what happened to Bloomers? The score vanished from the ITF LS near the end of the second set & there's no sign of a result! confuse

indiana · Tennis legend

Re the question of players that hit a bad rut of form, korriban, they much more than anyone will want to reverse this and I am sure will be considering what changes of plan / tactical changes they need to make along with coaches, and have very probably tried stuff, at least in practice, with no real joy.

They will also know how they played when getting their best results so possibly think ( maybe correctly) it is more a question of keeping working hard to iron out the clear glitches in execution compared to previous times, and they will hopefully get back on a better path.

Whatever, I can't imagine such ad Josh or Jamie aren't pretty continuosly trying to change their own fortunes.

RJA · Hall of fame

Bloomers lost 7-5, 7-6(5)

RJA · Hall of fame

This tournament just keeps getting worse

QF: José Checa & Adrian Sikora (ESP/SVK) WR 2165 beat Josh Milton & Marcus Willis WR 2522 : 7-6(6), 6-4