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Bob in Spain


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Yet another break of serve. That's 5 in a row.

Kyle now 2-3* down in the 2nd set.

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The run of service breaks comes to an end and unfortunately it is Romenov who holds.

Kyle to serve *2-4

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Better news in the doubles

QR1: (q1) David Rice / Sean Thornley WR 443 beat Sekou Bangoura / Patrick Daciek (USA/USA) WR 1963 : 6-2, 6-3

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QR2: Kyle Edmund WR 515 lost to Georgi Rumanov Payakov (ESP) WR 1120 : 4-6 2-6

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Disappointing :(

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Well that wasnt supposed to happen!



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Disappointing indeed.

Kyle is a fine prospect and seems to be being guided well. But overall I am hoping we will reasonably soon be seeing rather more in 2013 than he has so far produced.

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Things have been pretty horrendous for British Tennis as a whole since the Davis Cup. A desperate couple of weeks.

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A real shame. GB tennis is always going to struggle around this time of year though. Its a good job the grass comes immediately after so all our Grass court specialists can scoop up the easy points. Oh wait...

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RJA wrote:

Better news in the doubles

QR1: (q1) David Rice / Sean Thornley WR 443 beat Sekou Bangoura / Patrick Daciek (USA/USA) WR 1963 : 6-2, 6-3

FQR: (q1) David Rice / Sean Thornley WR 443 v (q2) Suk-Young Jeong / Yong-Kyu Lim (KOR/KOR) WR 1314



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A little googling reveals that the Bulgarian who emigrated to Spain and goes to university in the US is in fact playing his home tournament (hence the wildcard) and has caused upsets before in this tournament.

Good luck to Messrs Rice and Thornley, meanwhile. Well done, they, and hope they get a kindly draw.



-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 22nd of April 2013 06:42:40 AM



-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 22nd of April 2013 07:16:39 AM

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indiana wrote:

Disappointing indeed.

Kyle is a fine prospect and seems to be being guided well. But overall I am hoping we will reasonably soon be seeing rather more in 2013 than he has so far produced.

I couldn't find anything significant about Kyle's opponent yesterday to suggest why he might have struggled so much on serve and return, let alone lost so easily (2 breaks down in set 1 before a small revival; 2 breaks down in set 2). Odd. Bad day at the office perhaps. Yes the Bulgarian/Spaniard is one of those under-ranked US college players, but he was walloped by Christian Harrison 18 months ago in his last pro match when Harrison would have been just 17.

2 Futures left in the US on clay before Kyle returns to Europe for final preparations for the French Open.

Very weak fields indeed, with the exception 1 or 2 decent players. For example, Kyle is already 5th seed for next week's event before the usual last minute withdrawals, Luke Saville is the only player inside 400, and a ranking of 1064 gets you into MD already, and this will move out further for sure.

I recall a ranking of 450 had some significance for seeding at the French Open Juniors (although I can't recall exactly what), and I suspect 450 wouldn't have been too far away from Kyle's personal target with his coach ahead of the grass court swing. To achieve this Kyle will need at least 20 more ranking points. This would have been a reasonable and realistic target haul over the 4 US events entered, but with zero points so far and just 2 $10ks to go and by the sounds of it, only average form, a rather tough ask. 2 Finals in a row, or a Win and a QF would do it - not impossible given the fields - but I'd really just hope to see some improvement in form and a few wins under his belt, QFs/SFs perhaps.

 



-- Edited by korriban on Monday 22nd of April 2013 07:20:38 AM

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So much for kindly draws. They've got the number two seeds, Ryan Harrison and Carsten Ball. Bah. And if they beat them, perhaps Klahn and Johnson? Or Gabashvili and Molchanov? Very frustrating ... but the task is not impossible!

(Q) David Rice/Sean Thornley WR443 (if that's still correct) v. (2) Ryan Harrison/Carsten Ball (USA/AUS) WR 324



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Let's not get ahead of ourselves. They still have beat the Korean pair in the final qualifying match first (see my previous post in this thread for details).

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spud wrote:

Very good news having seen they'd lost the first set... the boys won 2-6 7-6(3) 10-4 and will play in the main draw

T'riffic, as 'Arry would say. biggrin  Great news to come home to!   I was hoping against hope that I might.  smile

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R1:  (Q) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 444 vs (2) Carsten Ball & Ryan Harrison (AUS/USA) WR 296

Either of our boys would be a match for Carsten Ball playing with someone of a similar ranking (N° 217 - Dave & Sean 239 & 207 respectively), but with Harrison in tow.... no  Still, a good test for them & for qualifying.



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 22nd of April 2013 06:20:47 PM

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