Week 25 - Wimbledon men's qualifying

Floody78 · Junior player

RE: Week 25 - Wimbledon men's qualifying

paulisi · Tennis legend

Dave Rice on serve at 5-4*

JWH struggling as expected against a good grass court player 2*-5

Jaffa · Challenger level

Dave takes the breaker 7-5!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Creditable effort from JWH but he loses 6-3 6-4

Sofa · Social player

Does JWH get any point for this?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Sofa wrote:
Does JWH get any point for this?

Don't think so. 8 points had he won but nothing for 1st round losers in Qualies.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Marcus lost the 1st set 6-3. On serve early in the 2nd at *1-2

scottie1 · Futures level

Marcus got beat 6-3 6-3 disappointing!

DWH · Club Coach

Looked on drakulastream and it seems a spectator is live streaming the Ward-Berankis match here...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jonasbilius

Not the greatest quality but still, its something if you're an Alex Ward (or Berankis) fan.

Alex just got broken. 2-3*

Edit: Or they were... It just went offline. Ah well

-- Edited by DWH on Monday 16th of June 2014 01:34:35 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Ed has just lost the 1st set v Groth 6-3

Guess we all knew it was going to be a tough day.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Sadly it's looking like Klein will be the only victor at the moment. Disappointed with Marcus and Dave Rice in the end. JWH expected and dont see Corrie being able to win enough on Groths serve. Alex will be knackered and playing a guy who is really a top 100 player so would expect straight sets loss there too.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

At the end of the day hopefully the 3.3k they get will help fund more travel for challengers that's the way to look at it. There was never really much change if any of them qualifying.

Mr cheese · Improver

Next year will be the year!

steven · Tennis legend

Looking at TennisAbstract's Wimbledon qualifying probabilities (which often look a bit suspect in individual cases, e.g. Josh only 11% to beat Williams even though he beat him earlier this month, but are probably a reasonable guide in general), they suggested 1.56 (i.e. 1-2) Brits surviving QR1, with Brydan the most likely (35%) and with only him and Marcus above 25%, then just JWH and Ed over 20%.

Those figures also gave only about a 1 in 8 chance of any British qualifiers, with no individual Brit having a more than 1 in 25 chance and Brydan at 3.9% again topping the list. All of which corroborates what many of us thought when we saw the draw, i.e. that it was unusually tough for the Brits even by Wimbledon qualifying standards.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Alex put up a decent fight given that he had probably about 20 mins to convert from clay to grass. However, he lost 3&4 to Berankis.

Ed is fighting hard against Groth and is 5-5 in the 2nd.

Oli was broken in the 1st but broke straight back and is currently 4-4