Week 1 - ATP 250 - Brisbane, Australia (hard)

DWH · Club Coach

RE: Week 1 - ATP 250 - Brisbane, Australia (hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

Nice start to the year for James, hopefully he can take advantage.

If he can qualify there are 3 nice slots in the main draw. 2 qualifiers play one another, another will face a wild card (Samuel Groth) while the other gets Lleyton Hewitt.

DF · Tennis legend

Fingers crossed for the next match.

No need to look too far forward.

Enjoy the victory

DWH · Club Coach

Both had been holding serve comfortably but James get the first break points and the first break, then holds.

He leads 5-3* in the first set.

Edit: Second serve ace seals the set 6-4

-- Edited by DWH on Sunday 29th of December 2013 06:26:13 AM

DWH · Club Coach

Second set starts with a break and a hold, James up *2-1

He saves his the first two break points against him but not the third, now level at 3-3*

-- Edited by DWH on Sunday 29th of December 2013 06:50:46 AM

LouieG · County player

Currently *4-5

DWH · Club Coach

Uh oh, James broken at the wrong moment. Copil takes the second set 4-6. Come on Wardy!

Edit: Now a rain delay. Match suspended *0-1 in the decider.

Update: Play resumed but Wardy down *0-3

-- Edited by DWH on Sunday 29th of December 2013 07:56:56 AM

DWH · Club Coach

Ah not to be. James goes out to the big serving Romanian 6-4 4-6 3-6 cry

RJA · Hall of fame

Looks like a pretty tough loss and a real missed opportunity. He would have played Kuznetsov in the final round which would have been very winnable.

DWH · Club Coach

John and Jamie won their match 6-3 6-4 smile

They play Anderson and Lindstedt next.

Also Mahut/Federer won their match so that's who Colin and Ross play if they can make it past Dimitrov/Chardy

-- Edited by DWH on Tuesday 31st of December 2013 09:05:52 AM

Spectator · All-time great

Congratulations to Messrs Murray and Peers. If memory serves correctly, they have rather little to defend early on, so the potential for ranking rises is good. Glad to see Messrs Federer and Mahut win, too.

DWH · Club Coach

Nerve wracking scoreline but John and Jamie make it through 4-6 7-6(2) 14-12 smile

Lindstedt/Anderson served for the match at 4-5 second set. And John and Jamie had three match points at 9-6* (so only one on their serve) in the match tiebreak. and saved a match point at 11-12*

wolf · Tennis legend

Jamie and John through to the semis beating Lindstedt and Anderson 4-6 7-6(2) [14-12] breaking Anderson when he served for the match and saving a match point against serve in the MTB.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Colin and Rosco are back with a first set bagel.............

Go win the match

paulisi · Tennis legend

Unfortunately the second set has gone 6-4.Into a MTB