QF: Brydan Klein & Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) CR 474 (139+335) vs (4) Hsin-Han Lee & Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE/TPE) CR 284 (145+129)

Just for completeness (and in case playing a mix of R1 and R2 matches on the same day has left anyone mildly confused) ..

L32: (SE) Brydan Klein WR 335 lost to (4) Bradley Klahn (USA) WR 118 (= CH) by 4 & 1

L16: (Q) Alex Ward WR 343 lost to Wu Di (CHN) WR 241 (CH 161 in May) by 2 & 1

johnnylad wrote:

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Ward said he won 48 points but only 3 games

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He added on his facebook page

Lost in the 2nd round to Di Wu 62 61 this morning. Didn't play badly but at the same time I didn't win enough of the big points especially when i was up in alot of games. He's the Chinese No.1 and i can see why they have high hopes for him. Leaving for Yokohama, Japan tomorrow and my first match will be on Saturday. 

Wu won 65 points. So they played 113 points in 15 games which works out at around 7.5 points per game. So on average they went to deuce every game! Talk about the score not reflecting how even the match was.
All the best to Alex, very easy to be a fan with his promising results and great attitude!

Looks like 'dan will be aggressively going for that AO qualies spot. He'll play the Thai Futures after the two Challengers in Japan.

Yep!


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Did Wu Di suddenly find a magic lamp or something? I know that he's very good, but...

R32: beat Dusan Lajovic [117] by 2 and 2
R16: beat Alexander Ward [343] by 2 and 1
QFi: beat Lim Yong-Kyu [320] by 1 and 0.


 He'll face Klahn next, so that should be a good match! In any case, I'm pleased to see more and more Asian players doing well. Right now, I think there are 6 of them in the top 100: Nishikori, Istomin, Lu Yen-Hsun, Somdev, Kukushkin and Golubev. Of course, quite a few of them will keep yo-yoing in and out of the top 100, but I see Bhambri and Wu getting there sometime next year, if they stay fit.

-- Edited by Salmon on Friday 8th of November 2013 06:48:36 AM

How is it possible that James McGee, who by his own admission lives hand to mouth with almost no funding, and almost no coaching, and who readily admits to being no more than a decent player (and certainly not not a super-talented prospect) has been steadily and quietly working his way up the rankings, now well inside the top 250, and making great progress/impact at Challenger level........yet this seems to be beyond almost all of our highly funded, LTA coached and better "touted" men's players?

Another excellent SF performance in Korea this week, and still going.......real "warms the heart" stuff. If he can do it.......begs the question, doesn't it.