Week 45 - Challenger ($50,000) - Knoxville, TN, USA (hard)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 45 - Challenger ($50,000) - Knoxville, TN, USA (hard)

TMH · Futures qualifying

Rice, AWard and Corrie all pulling off 'shock' (ranking-wise, at least) wins in Challengers on the same day - not bad!

indiana · Tennis legend

Be interesting next year pre Wimbledon if there are some guys fairly close to WR 250, who have been competing quite regularly in challengers and winning a number of matches and another ( eg. Marcus ) who has got into the top 250, but that has been earned purely from futures with little / no attempts at challengers.

My feeling already was that there was a strong arguement that the "all futures" player would have to be fairly well within the top 250 to justify a Wimbledon MD WC recommendation. These challenger wins by Ed, Dave and Alex ( in South Korea ) have crystalised these thoughts further.

Marcus has had a great year, and I have nothing against him. But I am just thinking that with Gary already advising that a major aim is to go for that Wimbledon MD WC ( and I understand it financially ) he and Marcus must remain very aware that top 250 in itself has never guaranteed a Wimbledon MD WC recommendation in the wording the LTA have used in previous years.

Now it may be that Marcus will move on to compete in a number of challengers in the first half of 2014, and if he does I wish him every sucess.

DWH · Club Coach

Rice and Shornley take the opening set 6-3

Edit: But down a break in the second *2-5

... Which they go on to lose 3-6.

MTB...

-- Edited by DWH on Wednesday 6th of November 2013 06:35:46 PM

-- Edited by DWH on Wednesday 6th of November 2013 06:42:38 PM

DWH · Club Coach

Ahh heartbreaker. They had two match points, one on their own serve at 9-7 but Dave missed a volley. Then at *9-10 ball clips the net and goes over Sean's head. cry

-- Edited by DWH on Wednesday 6th of November 2013 06:58:44 PM

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Hopefully the guys can continue their good form this week and win a few more matches

-- Edited by Simmy26 on Wednesday 6th of November 2013 09:46:05 PM

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Salmon wrote:

Johnnylad was no slouch, either! He got to 7K posts in little more than 15 months....

http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t12984152/week-33-womens-50k-bronx-ny-usa/?page=1&sort=oldestFirst

Back in the day when the results were a bit harder to find and you had to really go digging

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Not to be:

R1: Alex Kuznetsov & Denys Molchanov (USA/UKR) CR 457 (229+228) defeated David Rice & Sean Thornley CR 406 (210+206) by 3-6 6-3 [11-9] cry

paulisi · Tennis legend

Dave has Polansky in the next round who took out Jack Sock, the third seed, in straight sets.

Polansky though is in great form, getting to challenger finals in his last two events(1-1), so will be a tough ask.

Ed's opponent will not be known until later tonight.

Salmon · Tennis legend

And Corrie will face Michael Russell, the defending champion.

Edit: Will Russell be back next year? I suppose he'll want to retire at the USO, when he decides to do so?

-- Edited by Salmon on Thursday 7th of November 2013 05:54:03 AM

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

indiana wrote:
Be interesting next year pre Wimbledon if there are some guys fairly close to WR 250, who have been competing quite regularly in challengers and winning a number of matches and another ( eg. Marcus ) who has got into the top 250, but that has been earned purely from futures with little / no attempts at challengers.

My feeling already was that there was a strong arguement that the "all futures" player would have to be fairly well within the top 250 to justify a Wimbledon MD WC recommendation. These challenger wins by Ed, Dave and Alex ( in South Korea ) have crystalised these thoughts further.

Marcus has had a great year, and I have nothing against him. But I am just thinking that with Gary already advising that a major aim is to go for that Wimbledon MD WC ( and I understand it financially ) he and Marcus must remain very aware that top 250 in itself has never guaranteed a Wimbledon MD WC recommendation in the wording the LTA have used in previous years.

Now it may be that Marcus will move on to compete in a number of challengers in the first half of 2014, and if he does I wish him every sucess.

Surely it's the all England club that decides WC for Wimbledon

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

The lta put a list of names they recommend for WC to the committee at Aeltc but Aeltc still pick the WC and don't always do what the lta would like so Marcus will have to perform really we'll to earn a MDWC as they don't exactly hand them out to any british player

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Beat me to it by about ten seconds!

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, I was specifically talking about the LTA WC "recommendations" to the AELTC ( it is the LTA that have the top 250 guideline ).

It is indeed the AELTC that ultimately decide on the WCs and although they can ( and apparently do at times ) vary from the LTA recommendations re British WCs, the LTA recommendations do appear to be a very important part of the process.

DWH · Club Coach

Dave has started. Got broken in the first game and had two chances to break back but Polansky holds on *0-2

Edit: Dave loses the first set 6-4. Just the one break.

I missed the first game so I don't know what happened there but Dave was comfortably holding throughout. (to 15 three times and to love once)

-- Edited by DWH on Thursday 7th of November 2013 03:46:39 PM