Week 7 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Quimper, France (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

RE: Week 7 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Quimper, France (Hard)

LouieG · County player

Broken in the opening game 0-1*

korriban · Challenger level

LouieG wrote:
Broken in the opening game 0-1*

Passive. Maybe James needs a recording of Leon on constant loop in his head pre match and at every change.

Early days though

LouieG · County player

Really bad start 0-3*

RJA · Hall of fame

FFS 0-3*

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Make that *1-5! disbelief Reverting to the mean... bleh

LouieG · County player

Looks like Ward has woken up a little, starting to hold serve 2-5*

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

First set down the pan by 2-6. cry

paulisi · Tennis legend

I thought Authom was excellent first set. Huge serves and was returning well. Wardy improving later in the set.

I'm not sure Authom can sustain this level.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The slide continues in the second set. James broken to 40. 1-2*.

RJA · Hall of fame

Served a double fault on BP

daisy · County player

Authom holds for a 3-1 lead in the 2nd set.
Fixed camera so difficult to really gauge some of the shots.

korriban · Challenger level

James not doing much more than keeping the ball in play at times. He's making errors by not hitting through the ball with conviction. James is so much better than this............just don't understand how he gets into this frame of mind

RJA · Hall of fame

korriban wrote:
James not doing much more than keeping the ball in play at times. He's making errors by not hitting through the ball with conviction. James is so much better than this............just don't understand how he gets into this frame of mind

Unfortunately this frame of mind seems to be his normal state of affairs. He sometimes snaps out of it when facing defeat but you can't rely on every opponent throwing away a winning position.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Best player won. Authom was excellent defensively, pulled out the big serves at crucial times and was hitting winners from all over the place. Wardy had no answers and Authom will beat most if he continues to play at that level.