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Bob in Spain


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Wish the guy with the hammer would stop doing his D.I.Y. in the background while I am trying to watch the tennis.

Come on Wardy.

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3 MPs for the Dinosaur!!


And there's way too much noise in the background.

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Hard fought win and a QF spot for Wardy.

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A scrappy win but a win all the same. Whittington fell apart a bit at the end.

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L16: (8) James Ward WR 183 beat Andrew Whittington (AUS) WR 432 5-7 6-4 6-3

Will play the winner of Sekiguchi and Venus in the QF. Venus currently a set up.

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Not that highly-ranked an opponent for a Challenger, but Whittington is a former top 10 junior (in 2011) who, like Wardy's R1 opponent, won a 15K Futures event recently, so apart from that run of 5 games lost from late in the 1st set, that's a decent match from James

L16: (8) James Ward WR 183 beat Andrew Whittington (AUS) WR 432 (CH 419 this month) by 5-7 6-4 6-3

QF: (8) James Ward WR 183 v Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN) WR 273 (CH 265 in Sep) or Michael Venus (NZL) WR 440 (274 in 2011)

H2H 0-0 in both cases




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James was clinical from the moment that I started watching, but I can understand that he was quite poor here! Still, the only thing that matters is that he is through to the quarter finals.


This win will take him to around 172 in the rankings. Actually if he can win this tournament (which is not going to be easy, but definitely not beyond him), he'll end up becoming the British no.2 once again.

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COME ON WARDY, GET IN

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Well done Wardy! (Love the nickname Dinosaur btw), made me laugh.

From when he served for the first set his first serve, which had been so good previously, pretty much abandoned him.

Don't know if the wind had anything to do with that though. It did pick up quite a bit at times.

But he fought through. Fingers crossed he can keep going. Preferably with the form he showed at the beginning of that match. smile



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Wardy will play Venus who eased past Sekiguchi 3 and 2.

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QF: (8) James Ward WR 183 v Michael Venus (NZL) WR 440 (CH 274 in 2011)



-- Edited by steven on Thursday 24th of October 2013 01:35:49 PM

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paulisi wrote:

James lost the first set 7-5. Not quite sure how. He started like a house on fire and serving was excellent and served for the set at 5-4, but the serve went a bit inconsistent and he went passive.

The serve is something that can always be worked on, but even the very best have off days or a run of games where the first serve goes walkabout.

It's the passivity that does for James - almost always when close to the winning line (in a set or match) or in a pressure situation (serving to stay in sets, for example). Donskoy was a classic, but there are so many others (Dodig, Zverev, etc) that it must be widely known within the men's game. When he's behind in matches or when it's Even Stevens or even right at the start of matches James is very aggressive and positive in his play, even when he's having an off-day. This seems such a consistent theme that surely James himself must be the most frustrated of everyone - surely there are mental routines that he can bring to bear to minimise this habit.

SF looks a very good bet, from there on in it's difficult to comment. On his day, James can see off anyone in this field with ease, on other days he could just as easily lose to any of them.

But winning is good, however it comes about - nice habit, so good luck in what has been an iffy week for GB tennis so far.

 



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R1:  (4) Brydan Klein & Danai Udomchoke (THA) CR 398 (144+254) defeated Ryan Agar & Adam Feeney (AUS/AUS) CR 607 (311+296) by 6-3 5-7 [12-10]
R1:  Tatsuma Ito & Hiroki Moriya (JPN/JPN) CR 972 (579+383) "defeated" Greg Jones (AUS) & James Ward CR 1057 (307+750) by a walkover

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QF:  (4) Brydan Klein & Danai Udomchoke (THA) CR 398 (144+254) vs Alex Bolt & Andrew Whittington (AUS/AUS) CR 550 (182+368)



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2nd on court 11, so around 2am start.

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Yes Wardy! smile James broke in the opening game of the deciding set and held comfortably throughout. Serving it out to 30. 

3-6 7-6(2) 6-4

Plays Ebden in the Semifinal

 

P.S Good tactics from Bob. It worked



-- Edited by DWH on Friday 25th of October 2013 02:57:57 AM

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