Week 9 - Australia F2 ($15,000) - Port Pirie (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

Week 9 - Australia F2 ($15,000) - Port Pirie (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 8 - Australia F1 ($15,000) - Port Pirie (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

About time he won a match - that ranking is slipping very quickly.

Miriambee · Futures level

Also about time he won more than 1 in a row.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Miriambee wrote:
Also about time he won more than 1 in a row.

smile

scottie1 · Futures level

RE: Week 9 - Australia F1 ($15,000) - Port Pirie (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

scottie1 wrote:
brydan seems to be on a downward slope since he switched to GB

He certainly seems to be on his way to becoming a true Brit! (*) When he switched, his singles ranking was 15 places higher than his doubles ranking - 9 months later, his doubles ranking is 252 places higher than his singles ranking.

- his singles ranking has dropped 176 from 241 to 417
- his doubles ranking has risen 91 from 256 to 165

(*) Of course, nowadays that's unfair to the rest of the Brits, a lot of whom have been making very good progress in singles over the last couple of years

steven · Tennis legend

A close one, but another pretty dire result in the end:

L16: (5) Brydan Klein WR 405 lost to Jacob Grills (AUS) WR 770 (CH 746 in Feb) by 4-6 7-5 7-5

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
scottie1 wrote:
brydan seems to be on a downward slope since he switched to GB
He certainly seems to be on his way to becoming a true Brit! (*) When he switched, his singles ranking was 15 places higher than his doubles ranking - 9 months later, his doubles ranking is 252 places higher than his singles ranking.
- his singles ranking has dropped 176 from 241 to 417
- his doubles ranking has risen 91 from 256 to 165
(*) Of course, nowadays that's unfair to the rest of the Brits, a lot of whom have been making very good progress in singles over the last couple of years

It wasn't reported here (wasn't really stop the press stuff!) but Brydan lost his first round dubs match - so the singles outweighed the dubs this week (just). Not really much of an excuse to pop the champagne though. . . cry

I don't follow the bloke at all but would be interesting to know what's going on in his world - the tennis has been pretty bleak.

Ratty · County player

Coup Droit wrote:

I don't follow the bloke at all but would be interesting to know what's going on in his world - the tennis has been pretty bleak.

Since he's Australian, has possibly not the most attractive personality, and hasn't set foot in the UK for 8 months, I can't quite see why any poster on the British Tennis message board could give a sh*t.

indiana · Tennis legend

Theis forum would like to point out, especially to all Australians, that the above post is purely a personal one from the poster concerned, and all comments should be directed to him at xxxxxxrat@yyy.com :)

jenks · Social player

indiana wrote:
Theis forum would like to point out, especially to all Australians, that the above post is purely a personal one from the poster concerned, and all comments should be directed to him at xxxxxxrat@yyy.com :)

Im no Ratty apoligist but I don't think Ratty was being disparaging about all Aussies. He stated that Brydan was an Aussie and that his personality can mean people form a negative opinion of him. Nowhere does he indicate that he believes they two are linked.

RJA · Hall of fame

This one of the rare occasions where I would like to completely associate myself with the comments of Ratty. I do actually follow the progress of Klein but only because I always hope that he loses whenever he steps onto a tennis court.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ah, you are right, jenks, I misread Ratty's post. Apologies, Ratty.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

I was waiting for RJA to be happy and now we have it.