Week 31 - Challenger (€42,500) - Segovia, Spain (Hard)

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Week 31 - Challenger (€42,500) - Segovia, Spain (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Unfortunately it looks like I am not going to be able to make it, unless somebody gets to the semis. Next Sat is the first day I could feasibly travel. Sometimes, work really sucks.

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: (q4) Brydan Klein WR 431 beat Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela (MEX) WR 648 (CH 400 in 2013) by 3 & 3

QR2: (q4) Brydan Klein WR 431 v Milos Sekulic (SWE) WR 660 (CH 651 last month)

H2H 0-1 - Sekulic won 4-6 7-5 6-4 in Phuket in 2012

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Not great . . . :(

Dave Rice gets Kyle. Or Kyle gets Dave Rice. Or whatever way you want to look at it . ..

Marcus gets Chiudinelli, 5th seed

And Dan Cox gets 8th seed, Menendez- Maceiras

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

The seed in Kyle/Dave R's section of the draw is Marcel Ilhan, who is going to have even more travel issues than Kyle, as he is playing in the final in Kazakhstan tomorrow.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity for Marcus that in this rare foray into Challengers he gets such a draw. But that can happen and he has hardly had many challengers for it to generally "even out".

Indeed, could certainly have been generally much better. Still, all the best to the Brits.

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Well at least we have got Marcus to a challenger event he needs to play at this level consistently if he's going break into the top 250 .

I hope that he does well in the doubles and it restores the momentum

he was enjoying with Lewis until the Rome fiasco which certainly scuppered their wimby WC chances .

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Klein gets his revenge for Phuket:

QR2: (q4) Brydan Klein WR 431 defeated Milos Sekulic (SWE) WR 660 by 4 & 0

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

FQR: (q4) Brydan Klein WR 431 (CH = 174 in June 2009) vs (q6) Carlos Gómez (ESP) WR 444 (CH = 328 in September last year)

The pair have never played one another before.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: Benjamin Balleret & Hugo Nys (MON/FRA) CR 426 (178+248) vs Dan Cox & Dave Rice CR 643 (408+235)
R1: Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 452 (230+222) vs Alex Llompart & Dean O'Brien (PUR/RSA) CR 533 (232+301)
R1: Brydan Klein & Nikola Mektic (CRO) CR 500 (255+245) vs (2) James Cluskey & Adrián Menéndez (IRL/ESP) CR 303 (165+138) bleh

spud · Challenger qualifying

Disappointed to not see Lewis Burton play qualifying here after making his first futures final recently

Although is he fully fit at the moment after pulling out of Frinton?

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Marcus Willis WR 326 v (5) Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) WR 173 (CH 52 in 2010)
L32: Dan Cox WR 207 v (8) Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras (ESP) WR 195 (CH 169 in 2012)
L32: Kyle Edmund WR 267 v Dave Rice WR 329

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 27th of July 2014 04:13:55 PM

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Not the best draw for Marcus but I suppose that's the rub with challengers. Pretty confident that Kyle will beat Dave and perhaps Kyle can take advantage of the extra day he has on Astana finalist Ilhan in order to make another QF, possibly against Coxy who has a decent draw. Mixed draw but could've been worse.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
L32: Dan Cox WR 207 v (8) Ádrian Menéndez-Maceiras (ESP) WR 195 (CH 169 in 2012)

Unless you know something I don't, Steven, I think you'll find that you've put the accent on Adrián is over the wrong "a" & if you insist on including Spanish players' matronymic, the two surnames should not be hyphenated.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I can't comment on the accent as I don't speak Spanish, but the name is hyphenated on the draw sheet, and on the ATP site.