Week 11 - Great Britain F8 ($10,000) - Tipton (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 11 - Great Britain F8 ($10,000) - Tipton (Hard)

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Well if Marcus wins another singles title today it puts another complexion on it !

Its quite tough to have serious goals in both singles & doubles at the same time

The dilemma is that we are futures level in singles but challenger level in doubles , but I think that the step up to challengers in singles will improve marcus's performance and he will raise his level .

I think he has 6 gears and at the moment we are stuck in 3rd

-- Edited by A1 tennis academy on Saturday 15th of March 2014 12:17:19 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

4-2* up at the change over

Jan · Hall of fame

wins the tb 7-4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, A1, I don't think a win here or not should make any difference to your plans.

Plans are big picture - one win more or less in a 10k is hardly fundamental. You've really no idea if Marcus is challenger level or not - he's never tried it. (Ranking is based on what he's tried i.e. basically 10ks). And as to waiting for the 'right moment' when confidence is high - well that arguably could have been last autumn when he won in Israel, or now, or whenever. I know that it;d be nice if his ranking was a littlle higher so he made got a ranking in the qs or made the MD. But he could well do that anyway (see Gabb), depends on the tournament. And there comes a time when you've got to just suck it and see.

(ANd MArcus wins the TB - smile)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Not too many ranking points to defend in terms of singles for a while, so Marcus' ranking should start to climb if he can find some consistency.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Sam 2-0 up

spud · Challenger qualifying

A1 tennis academy wrote:
Plan is mixture of 15,000 & challengers

So where next then, is it St Brieuc challenger? Then where?

I would hope for them to play the china 15K's before playing the 4 asian challengers... but thats my thinking.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Marcus got back the break. 2*-3

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Coup Droit wrote:
Marcus got back the break. 2*-3

Be great if can win the singles title and start climbing in the singles ranking again

Jan · Hall of fame

now *4-3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A1 tennis academy wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Marcus got back the break. 2*-3
Be great if can win the singles title and start climbing in the singles ranking again

And he has the break.

As pointed out, he had some points to defend in the last month. So he did pretty well just to defend them and stand still.

Now there's very little on the horizon to defend so is the time to try and capitalise.

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Jan wrote:
now *4-3

M 4-3 & a break up ?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

5-3* to Marcus

paulisi · Tennis legend

5-3 up