Week 29 - ATP 250, Bogotá, COL - Hard

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 29 - ATP 250, Bogotá, COL - Hard

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Another break for Wardy and he will serve for the match at *5-2

LouieG · County player

Wins 3-6, 6-4, 6-2! Well done Wardy!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

FQR: (q1) James Ward WR 152 defeated (q8) Marcelo Arévalo (ESA) by 3-6 6-4 6-2

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Well, he certainly qualified the hard way relative to his bye! Anyway, well done Dino!

steven · Tennis legend

L32: (Q) James Ward WR 152 v (7) Matthew Ebden (AUS) WR 81 (CH 61 in 2012)

H2H 0-1 - Ebden won by the bizarre score of 6-0 5-7 6-0 in the Melbourne Challenger SFs last year

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

James seems to be first on Centre tomorrow at noon local time, which I think is 6PM BST?

The match itself will be a challenge for James but he can win it if he plays well enough. I've seen Ebden a few times and he's no spectacular, so I wouldn't expect that James will need to be particularly special to beat him.

Jaffa · Challenger level

He definitely got the short straw of the qualifiers but with that said it's not often the short straw is the WR 81 in a 250!

A131 · Intermediate Club Player

BeefyDeedz wrote:
James seems to be first on Centre tomorrow at noon local time, which I think is 6PM BST?

The match itself will be a challenge for James but he can win it if he plays well enough. I've seen Ebden a few times and he's no spectacular, so I wouldn't expect that James will need to be particularly special to beat him.

I think Ward is lucky that the standard in qualifying was more akin to the standard in qualifying for a challenger event and having struggled to beat two players outside the top 400 and having seen him play a few times, there's nothing spectacular about him either.