Week 28 - Challenger (€42,500) - Portoroz, Slovenia (Hard)

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RE: Week 28 - Challenger (€42,500) - Portoroz, Slovenia (Hard)

TMH · Futures qualifying

Wow that got tense at the end there. Desein was really going for broke and it was paying off, but Kyle hung in there well and grinded it out. Excellent stuff.

I make that his first challenger semi-final?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Kyle turned up the heat and his opponent completely Deseintigrated. Well, not completely, but hey, why let the truth get in the way of a bad pun.

Kyle makes his 1st Challenger Semi. Fantastic achievement.

TMH · Futures qualifying

I like it ^

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That was a pretty one-sided set of tennis. Well done, Kyle. Desein played one great game but kyle had chances on all his service games and was clearly in the driving seat.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Come on Dan. Your turn.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Phew !!! Thought Kyle was very very good until that certain game, which gave his opponent a new lease of life. His level has risen so much from round 1, just shows what a bit of confidence can do. Now playing the sort of tennis which makes us so excited about his future.

steven · Tennis legend

TMH wrote:
Wow that got tense at the end there. Desein was really going for broke and it was paying off, but Kyle hung in there well and grinded it out. Excellent stuff.

I make that his first challenger semi-final?

Yes, it is - it was only his 2nd Challenger QF (he lost to Bolelli in Vercelli in April)

Dan is also going for his first Challenger SF, having lost 2 QFs previously - to Boggo in Jersey in 2009 and to Sugita in Rimouski in March.

QF: Kyle Edmund WR 312 beat Niels Desein (BEL) WR 234 (CH 164 in 2010) by 4 & 4

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Great result some great play, really promising display if he can consistently deliver the best bits I can see a top 30 player getting a nasty suprise in the not to distant future. Buffered out of all the good bits in second set. Now let's hope for an british semi !

Shhh · Challenger level

29pts for a semi............is this a personal best for Kyle so far?

philwrig · Hall of fame

Bob in Spain wrote:
Kyle turned up the heat and his opponent completely Deseintigrated. Well, not completely, but hey, why let the truth get in the way of a bad pun.

Kyle makes his 1st Challenger Semi. Fantastic achievement.

I'm guessing you had that pun lined up half way through the 2nd set. And I agree shame to waste it ;)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Shhh wrote:
29pts for a semi............is this a personal best for Kyle so far?

Yes. His previous best was a 27 from winning a 15k.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Kyle turned up the heat and his opponent completely Deseintigrated. Well, not completely, but hey, why let the truth get in the way of a bad pun.

Kyle makes his 1st Challenger Semi. Fantastic achievement.
I'm guessing you had that pun lined up half way through the 2nd set. And I agree shame to waste it ;)

Had it lined up since last night actually but kept it quiet as I didn't want to jinx anything.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Time for a quick celebratory swim and then back to watch some Dan C.

indiana · Tennis legend

Great to see, well done, Kyle !

Kyle's general play doesn't on the face of it seem to be suffering from his discussed lack of matches and various ATP tour appointments, whatever my own concerns, and there may indeed be some real benefits in these experiences. But I do think that it maybe does effect him in important match situations, in simply not been there, done it enough.

But that certainly should improve with time and more and more matches.

Good stuff.