Week 33 - ATP Masters 1000 - Cincinnati, OH, USA - Hard

TMH · Futures qualifying

RE: Week 33 - ATP Masters 1000 - Cincinnati, OH, USA qualifying - Hard

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Absolutely cracking win, well done wards. Top 40 scalp potential awaits, if he can keep his top 20 quality serve in play, game on! Come on.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Dino is in top form! I hope he can stay healthy. If he maintains this level, I think he'll have an excellent chance at the USO qualies. Some quick maths suggests that a first round win this week will take him to a new career high of around 130. He is not on today's oop so he can rest up.

I wonder if the USTA have ever consider streaming qualies of tour level events? Overall, I think the quality of the streams is great and even the commentators are good -I think they are probably from a similar tennis background as ourselves so I much prefer listening to them than a mainstream UK commentator. My only gripe is the repetition of the ads! I have no problem with ads at change overs, but must it be the same ad every single time??!!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The French are implying it was because Mathieu has just returned from injury. :)

But he's only been out a month (since Bastad, when he retired with the injury which, I think, is completely better now) so it's hardly long.

Glad to see that James is keeping some perspective though : :::)))

James Ward @JamesWardtennis
Great to get through today to my first masters series event! More importantly though...#Arsenal won....Can't wait for the season to start!!

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Coup Droit wrote:

James Ward @JamesWardtennis
Great to get through today to my first masters series event! More importantly though...#Arsenal won....Can't wait for the season to start!!

Thanks CD. I didn't realise this was his first Masters MD. Even bigger congrats!

goldenboy · Club Coach

cracking win by james, two top 100 players in a row is impressive stuff.

much deserved pay-day now, and a realistic chance of round 2 (which would mean a new career high I think).

also there's now a decent chance James will be seeded in US qualies, thus avoiding the top players to start with.

Spectator · All-time great

Great stuff. A very good year so far.

DWH · Club Coach

Helen40 wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:

James Ward @JamesWardtennis
Great to get through today to my first masters series event! More importantly though...#Arsenal won....Can't wait for the season to start!!
Thanks CD. I didn't realise this was his first Masters MD. Even bigger congrats!

It must be the first one he has qualified for. He got into the Indian Wells MD earlier this year as a Lucky Loser where he lost to then No.37 (Now No.16) Feliciano Lopez in 3 sets. I think it was mentioned earlier but the player he lost to in final qualifying there was PHM. Haha.

Well done Wardy! So great to see him in good form. Hope he keeps it up. Would love to see him stay healthy and take out his career high. smile

Jan · Hall of fame

Brilliant from James
I was "watching" live scores, but for some reason couldn't get on here - could get the homepage up, but anything and everything I clicked on just took me to the homepage again. Very strange. It did happen once before...
Anyway, back on now as though nothign has happened!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Computers are weird cattle, all sorts of strange things happen and then sort themselves. A few days ago I couldn't get tennistv on Chrome, though I could on Firefox, then the next day all was well again.

EddietheEagle · County player

Any known reason why our erstwhile GB No 2 didn't play qualifying?

paulisi · Tennis legend

EddietheEagle wrote:
Any known reason why our erstwhile GB No 2 didn't play qualifying?

He did. He made main draw.

If you mean Evo, he is GB no.3 and he flew home from US straight after defeat a couple of weeks ago.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
EddietheEagle wrote:
Any known reason why our erstwhile GB No 2 didn't play qualifying?
He did. He made main draw.
If you mean Evo, he is GB no.3 and he flew home from US straight after defeat a couple of weeks ago.

Eddie did say 'erstwhile' no. 2, paulisi, i.e. 'former 'no. 2, which is indeed what Dan Evans is.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

My "source" told me that his knee was still an issue.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Knee or not, Dan will probably drop to around 250 after the US Open unless he pulls a miracle out of the bag.