Week 30 - Challenger ($50,000) - Lexington, KY, USA (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 30 - Challenger ($50,000) - Lexington, KY, USA (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Millot retires . . . and James rolls on . . . :)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Dino finally breaks Millot again to take a *3-2 lead in the second. Now, will he proceed to lose the match from here...?

For once, he doesn't, winning by 7-6(4) 4-2 retired!

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

That's an important win, no matter how it came. Can't be looking for anything less than final points now, surely. Keep going, Dino.

LouieG · County player

1st challenger SF for Wardy this year, a good showing so far, hopefully he can retain his title! Shame that he will now miss the Washington 500 quallies though

paulisi · Tennis legend

Strange match and strange retirement.

James was easily the better player, but his serve was a bit inconsistent and he couldn't finish off Millot with all those break points.

Millot was really struggling on serve and going for everything, which I suspect made the match rather unpredictable for James.

Still another win and more points in the bag and a good chunk of last years win defended already.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (5) James Ward WR 150 defeated Vincent Millot (FRA) WR 188 by 7-6(4) 4-2 retired

but he'll need all his water on to beat the drug cheat in the semi:

SF: Wayne Odesnik (USA) 183 vs (5) James Ward WR 150

paulisi · Tennis legend

If he cannot play Washington, I assume he can play Vancouver on a SE.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

I do really dislike Odesnik. Hoping James can avenge 2011 and stuff him.

Jaffa · Challenger level

^ indeed he can - will he still be seeded though?

Nice little dog there Stircrazy

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Jaffa wrote:
Nice little dog there Stircrazy

confuse

Jaffa · Challenger level

Oh silly predictive text, I meant DIG!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Jaffa wrote:
Oh silly predictive text, I meant DIG!

Ah, I see. That makes much more sense! smile

steven · Tennis legend

Had to go and missed the end, but thank goodness he got through, however it happened!

QF: (5) James Ward WR 150 beat Vincent Millot (FRA) WR 188 (CH 147 in 2011) by 7-6(4) 4-2 ret.

SF: (5) James Ward WR 150 v Wayne Odesnik (USA) WR 183 (CH 77 in 2009)

H2H 1-2 - James won on clay in Sarasota in 2011, Odesnik on hard 5 & 4 here in Lexington in 2011 and in 3 sets in Aptos in 2013

-- Edited by steven on Friday 25th of July 2014 10:44:57 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Wardy down an early break 1-2*

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