Week 44 - Challenger ($75,000) - Charlottesville, VA, USA (hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 44 - Challenger ($75,000) - Charlottesville, VA, USA (hard)

scottie1 · Futures level

Sorry cant see Josh Milton progressing into Top 250 seen him several times has some clever shots at times but game not big enough

wolf · Tennis legend

Josh lost 6-0 6-1, his only game a break in the first game of the second set.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

As a complete non player can I ask those more experienced than me, how hard is it to up and change a significant part of your game like the serve? I always thought it was pretty hard as the top guys and gals seem to only ever tweak things like serve action, racket grip, etc rather than make a full change. Is that just because there can't be anything too fundamentally wrong with their game for them to get to the top or is it, as I always assumed, because it's very difficult to change something that ingrained?

indiana · Tennis legend

I'm a complete non player myself, but have often been rather sceptical about suggestions as to how such and such a player would be so much better if they 'just" changed / altered this or that, suspecting it may often be very much easier said than done.

However, Josh's serve really does perplex me. He's been an integral part of the system for many years from a young age, and a lot of time ( a heck of a lot of time I would hope ! ) must have been spent trying to improve that serve.

It's the one shot that you can have in theory total control of, with less outside variables, and from that aspect maybe more easily "taught" and then replicated. But, for a pro tennis player, it remains so bad...?!

paulisi · Tennis legend

David Rice just starting - streamed.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
David Rice just starting - streamed.

Where is the stream. The USTA site has got the Smyczek game.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I use this one from streamhunter:

www.drakulastream.eu/static/popups/1802001015352700.html

quality's not bad (not quite as good as USTA) and it doesn't seem to crash the computer (no guarantees!)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
I use this one from streamhunter:

www.drakulastream.eu/static/popups/1802001015352700.html

quality's not bad (not quite as good as USTA) and it doesn't seem to crash the computer (no guarantees!)

Thanks. It is "sort-of" working.

Need to find a better one though because Dave is 3-0 down on this one. wink

Spectator · All-time great

Think that there's a science fiction short story in there: matches taking place in alternative realities, each represented by a different stream...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dave holds serve and it's 3*-1. But he did have a BP in the last game and it is, so far, a 'proper' match (unlike Josh's where the poor lad got hammered)

Spectator · All-time great

Mr Milton v Mr Young was a huge mismatch at this time: the result isn't really that surprising (unfortunately). Incidentally, we shouldn't be too upset at the havoc Mr Shane caused with GB players; I just looked over the main draw, and the current and former University of Virginia players are generally having a field day at home. Teddy Angelinos beat Alex Kuznetov; Mitchell Frank beat de Voest; and the only team member who lost (Styslinger) lost to a former teammate (Jenkins).

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Williams wins the first set 6-3 which was a pretty fair score. Dave playing quite well, but Rhyne just a bit better.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Impressed with Dave, giving Williams a good match. Especially the off forehand that Rhyne is struggling to read.

Dave definitely will go top 250.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Well, there wasn't too much between them. Rice should be fairly happy about his performance this week and I think he'll qualify for the next Challenger, too.

I agree that Dave is good enough to be top 250, but in the near future he'll have to deal with a trade-off. I think he'll be top 100 in doubles fairly soon, but I'm not sure whether his singles progress can keep up with it.