Weeks 26 & 27: Wimbledon men's main draw (grass)

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

RE: Weeks 26 & 27: Wimbledon men's main draw (grass)

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

GSM Lu

James looked exhausted and absolutely deflated

LouieG · County player

Nice one on giving out a wonderful 2 wildcards lta ****s

DF · Tennis legend

Listened to you LouieG for the ace before the end.

FRUSTRATING!

Lu wins in four sets.

steven · Tennis legend

Kyle comes across as very thoughtful and sensible in his interview (no big surprise there, obviously!) and James seems to give a pretty realistic assessment too, plus some info about where he is likely to play over the summer.

Kyle http://bit.ly/11J6KRAÂ

Wardy http://bit.ly/11Jc0EIÂ

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

BP converted

Ward 1/13
Lu 2/15

Pretty shocking stats from both, and neither of them really played high quality stuff during those break points

seagull · Hall of fame

Ward has to be he worst front runner ever. Very frusrating bcause he earned so my break point chances but just seemed unable to take any of them. Maybe that i the difference between being Top 100 and not.

LouieG · County player

Can we all chip in for a sports psychologist?

RJA · Hall of fame

Given the opportunities he has had it beggars belief that Ward comes out of the grass court season with out a single ranking point to show for it.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I feel so sorry for James. This match was nothing like the one at Queens, far closer, really tight. But James deserved the third set and, after the heartache of Queens, even the third set would have been a reward.
I don't think he's even playing the doubles - he's going to feel so down.

LordBrownof · Futures level

The Magician Santoro wrote:
GSM Lu

James looked exhausted and absolutely deflated

Like the majority of his returns.

LouieG · County player

What do him and his coach work on if these are constant shortcomings?

Spectator · All-time great

Some fair comments here, but some seem rather unduly negative, given the disparity in the rankings and the extent to which Mr Ward pushed a good opponent. Finding someone to work with Mr Ward to help him get over the line seems like a good idea ... but in re: some comments, I have the feeling that Mr Ward is getting some of the treatment Mr Bogdanovic got. Wasn't helpful then, and isn't now.

jake270392 · Intermediate Club Player

Spectator wrote:
Some fair comments here, but some seem rather unduly negative, given the disparity in the rankings and the extent to which Mr Ward pushed a good opponent. Finding someone to work with Mr Ward to help him get over the line seems like a good idea ... but in re: some comments, I have the feeling that Mr Ward is getting some of the treatment Mr Bogdanovic got. Wasn't helpful then, and isn't now.

I agree with you to an extent but on the other hand you cant keep bringing rankings into this because you might as well say dont bother showing up!!

It was a good match and good display from Ward but it was a shame that he couldn't get into the break point and set point opportunities more!

DF · Tennis legend

He did get into the break point opportunities but could not convert.