Week 8 - Thailand F2 ($10,000) - Nonthaburi (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 8 - Thailand F2 ($10,000) - Nonthaburi (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Final: (1) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 559 (286+273) vs (3) Hyeon Chung & Ji Sung Nam (KOR/KOR) CR 908 (580+328)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (7) Michael Lammer (SUI) WR 446 defeated (4) Marcus Willis WR 389 by 4 & 4
QF: Lewis Burton WR 790 defeated (Q) Maxime Forcin (FRA) WR 918 by 1 & 4

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It'll take a miracle for Lewis to reach the final, but stranger things have happened...!

SF: Lewis Burton WR 790 vs Danai Udomchoke (THA) WR 399 (CH 77 in January 2007)

steven · Tennis legend

Lammer is ex-top 150 so I thought that one might be dangerous. Similarly, Udomchoke (as well as being ex-top 100) thrashing Wachiramanowong 1 & 0 today, so Lewis could have a tough time tomorrow. Still, having reached his first Futures singles SF for 6 months and made another doubles final, it's been an excellent week for him already

On tomorrow's OoP, it says there will be live TV coverage of Lewis's semi. Whether it being on Thai TV means there will be a stream, I don't know, but the match starts at 02.30 GMT anyway.

spud · Challenger qualifying

Well done to Lewis, keep this guy in Thailand!

spud · Challenger qualifying

Just having a look at the numbers, the guys need to win around another 5 10K's to get Marcus to 220 and Lewis to 250 (with Lewis defending points soon).

Just not sure which challengers they can integrate into their schedule that will have relatively low cuts as there are so few on the calendar.

Would definitely look to push for a CR of 430ish and then head out to Asia for a swing of 4 challengers starting on the 21st April

LouieG · County player

Lewis beaten 3 & 0

Spectator · All-time great

As Steven noted, Lammer and Udomchoke aren't exactly the kind of players you'd be looking to play in a 10K (though Lammer in fact lost to Alexis Musialek in the semis).

Doubles currently at 4-6, 7-6 (4), 4-3.

Spectator · All-time great

(3) Hyeon Chung & Ji Sung Nam (KOR/KOR) CR 908 (580+328) d. (1) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 559 (286+273) 6-4, 6(4)-7, 10-7.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Spectator wrote:
As Steven noted, Lammer and Udomchoke aren't exactly the kind of players you'd be looking to play in a 10K (though Lammer in fact lost to Alexis Musialek in the semis).

Doubles currently at 4-6, 7-6 (4), 4-3.

That may be true but both players are on the way down and in terms of progress Lewis and particularly Marcus should be competing and they didn't really. Seems to me going to Israel and Thailand in search of easy points hasn't really worked. Nor should it. The challengers in India might have been a better idea. Alex Ward and Dan Smethurst seem to have the right idea. The difference in Dans game is amazing he ll almost certainly break the top 300 and maybe even 250 looking at his forthcoming schedule. The first 15k in Canada is a very weak field as well.