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DWH wrote:

Does it still count as tactical if it comes before your own serve?

 I'd say so. I'd say what is tactical is that you were in the driving seat, had 5 (?) MP, the other guy blowing himself up, and suddenly you lose two tight games, and now have to serve for the set and you want to break the guy's momentum, give yourself a chance to re-group etc. etc.

I',m not saying Josh is doing this - but it could well look like it.

 

And he wins !!! 6-4 smile

 

No worries . . .



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Yup that's what I reckoned after I stopped to think about it.

Regardless, well done Josh! smile



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So, a recovery from a set down to get a 14th Challenger qualifying win in a row for Dave and a recovery from a set and a break down for Josh to save GB blushes by ensuring that an American ranked outside the top 1600 didn't escape from a section with four much higher-ranked Brits in it!

FQR: Josh Milton WR 606 beat (WC) Ryan Shane (USA) WR 1677 by 4-6 6-4 6-4
FQR: (q3) David Rice WR 374 beat Alexios Halebian (USA) WR 824 by 6-7(2) 6-2 6-3

(N.B. rankings not updated since it was still qualies)

Despite their FQR opponents' (probably misleading) rankings, I'd say it's a fine achievement from both of them to qualify here


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I guess that'll move Dave up to GB rank 8 at the end of the week but still just outside the top 350.

Josh back to a ranking with a 5 as the big figure . . .

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Yes ... and he might be just inside the top 350, it's touch and go (unless he wins R1 of course! )

... and yes, Josh definitely back in the top 600, but he'd need to reach the semis to make the top 500 (with QFs, he would just miss out, I think)

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Well done to both the lads and I must admit that I was wrong about Milton's prospects! 3 matches is hard work, but they get 5 points for the effort, which is quite fair, I'd say.

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I called Josh's result. Have they been placed in the main draw yet?

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Sadly, yes - they got the 2 worst draws ...

L32: (Q) Josh Milton WR 605 v (4) Donald Young (USA) WR 104 (CH 38 in 2012)
L32: (Q) David Rice WR 355 v (7) Rhyne Williams (USA) WR 122 (CH 114 in Aug)

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Ouch! Still great work from the boys to qualify and it ain't over till its over as they say!

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For the record:

FQR:  (q1) José Hernández & Milan Pokrajac (DOM/CAN) CR 574 (300+274) defeated  (q2) Ed Corrie & Dan Smethurst CR 1044 (592+452) by 7-6(5) 2-6 [10-8] cry

So close, despite the apparent gap in rankings! hmm



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Yup it was close I was dipping in and out but I saw the end of the second set and they went a mini break up in the tiebreak only to lose it. Tuned back in to see them play well to break and take the second set. Then they twice went up a mini break in the match tiebreak. They probably should have won it but not to be today. A shame for them. 



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I love their draws. They don't get to play against the fringe Tour players too often, so this should teach them what the top players do. With 5 points and some guaranteed cash*, this is a win-win situation for them - lose, and no one cares, but win, and you're a hero.




* let's not forget about the LTA bonus payments. Now I'm hardly a pom-pom wielding LTA supporter, but they have done a fantastic job with the bonus payments.

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But as Indiana says, Dave and Sean have been MILES off making it to the semis or finals in the Challengers so they don't have that problem of Dave not being able to do the singles qualies.

I also think, like Indy, that at the moment things are fine for Dave but a little more dodgy for Sean. By doing a few qualie rounds and one or maybe two matches in the MD, Dave's singles pay OK (LTA bonus helps) and he's finished by Tuesday or Wednesday. So he's got a couple of rounds of doubles to play on Tuesday to Thursday, say, and he;s ready for the next qualies. And, as such, he's made enough to get by this year. (IF they were to win more doubles, it'd maybe be a problem).

Don't know how Sean manages to fund things though . . . .

 

edit: of course, it'd be nice if they went and had a great run in the dubs now though . . .smile



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 29th of October 2013 11:30:43 PM

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Josh just about the start - match being streamed

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Josh about to serve at 0-5, first set.

He is currently 0 for 7 on second serve. I think that says it all......he looks a pretty good player off the ground, but IMO his serve often isn't even up to the level of a good club player. Unless he sorts this out, I don't know where he goes from here........



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