Week 12 - ATP Masters 1000 - Miami FL, USA - Hard - (ex-AM) singles & doubles

Jan · Hall of fame

RE: Week 12 - ATP Masters 1000 - Miami FL, USA - Hard - (ex-AM) singles & doubles

steven · Tennis legend

Quickly running away from Kyle now, sadly - Benneteau SFTM

steven · Tennis legend

L96: (WC) Kyle Edmund WR 298 lost to Julien Benneteau (FRA) WR 52 (CH 26 in 2012) by 6-7(2) 6-3 6-2

That makes 3 sets Kyle has won in ATP main draws, all against Frenchmen ...

Jan · Hall of fame

It's not been a very good day in Miami cry

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

It's not been a very good day for Brits anywhere almost everyone has lost. Naomi and Emily had easy matches but that apart all defeats.

indiana · Tennis legend

Very creditable performance from Kyle, but time to get back to the day job.

Challengers and / or top futures for the next couple of months or so before whatever the grass court season brings ( well after whatever divetsions he may have in Italy ).

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
It's not been a very good day for Brits anywhere almost everyone has lost. Naomi and Emily had easy matches but that apart all defeats.

I know what you mean - but Dave managed to scrape a win, and - better than that - Harriet got a nice win.

Slightly clutching at straws though . . ..

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
Very creditable performance from Kyle, but time to get back to the day job.

Challengers and / or top futures for the next couple of months or so before whatever the grass court season brings ( well after whatever divetsions he may have in Italy ).

Yes. Kyle has had enough "good experiences" or "tastes of the big time" so far this year. Time to knuckle down for a sustained period of grind in high level futures and challengers.

indiana · Tennis legend

It kind of feels like a bad day today, although actually I'm not really sure at all on reflection that it was that bad.

With Dan Cox to finish, from the guys and girls singles, we have had 5 wins and 7 losses. This counts a win and a loss in the all Brit Anna vs Eleanor curtailed match, but not the Liz Thomas FQR loss, which I'm not sure was today anyway.

Only one match rezult went against the rankings and that was Harriet's fine win against a player ranked over 600 places above her.

Of course, Heather's loss was a big disappointment, both from her in truth being very underanked and in form and from the fact that she evidently suffered an injury. And I'd say Manusha's loss was perhaps a bit unexpected and she was very close in the rankings, as was Josh Milton.

Of the other three non all Brit losses ( Kyle, Dan, Farah ), Kyle and Dan took sets off higher ranked players and Farah's was tp be honest expected.

Dave, Naomi and Emily had expected wins, if witb a bit of bother for Dave.

So, that's the GB day...

Now, come on Dan Cox !

philwrig · Hall of fame

Great learning curve for Kyle today I thought. At 3-2 with a break in the second, he could see the winning post for the first time, as a result he tightened up a tad, and with tennis being a game of small margins that was enough for Benny to see a weakness in Kyle and refocus his mind to get himself over the winning post. If Kyle had served with authority from 3-2 up like he had done for the first set and a half I'm pretty sure he would have won that match.

Still though very impressive and I'd love to see him now attack the challenger circuit and start to build up wins against top 200 players.

indiana · Tennis legend

And yes ! - as I was writing my previous post Dan Cox won.

So that's 6 wins and 7 losses today, with the only two "rankings upsets" being Harriet and Dan Cox's wins.

And again, I'd only only really call Heather's loss particularly surprising / disappointing ( maybe Manisha's to an extent ) and Heather appears to have had mitigating circumstances.

Not bad at all...

babybean · Junior player

OK- So I'm looking at the doubles draw - which bears no resemblance to what I saw the other day and which has been posted on here? Am I dreaming or going mad? Fleming / Hutchins vs Bryans??!

Spectator · All-time great

Unfortunately, your perception of the doubles draw appears to be that of someone both awake and sane. Not having the previous one in front of me, it's hard to work out what's happened. Only Huey and Inglot have kept the same opponents. No time to write out in full, but Bryans for Fleming and Hutchins, Nestor and Zimonjic for Murray and Peers, and Cilic and Dlouhy for Haase and Marray (the latter perhaps an improvement on Llodra and Mahut).

Julia Carrot · All-time great

That's what it says. From the the sublime wildcards to the ridiculous top seeds. That's awful.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Sorry, posted that twice. Have had no sleep is my excuse.

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Thursday 20th of March 2014 12:41:26 PM