Week 41 - France F22 ($15,000) - Saint-Dizier (Hard - indoor)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 41 - France F22 ($15,000) - Saint-Dizier (Hard - indoor)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Harry's won the first set 6-4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

QR2: (q2) Harry Meehan WR 1005 def. Leo Boos (FRA) UNR 6-4 6-3

FQR: (q2) Harry Meehan WR 1005 v (q12) Christopher Marquis (IND) WR 1472 (CH 1248 in May 2010)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Harry also playing in the doubles main draw tomorrow, with Thomas Le Boulch, against the third seeds.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: Thomas Le Boulch (FRA) & Harry Meehan CR 2338 (1338+995) vs (3) Ugo Nastasi & Hugo Nys (LUX/FRA) CR 1016 (854+262)

steven · Tennis legend

FQR: (q2) Harry Meehan WR 1005 beat (q12) Christopher Marquis (IND) WR 1472 (CH 1248 in 2010) by 7-6(4) 6-2

paulisi · Tennis legend

That's more like it from Harry. Lets hope for a decent draw. The stats suggest the serve is getting better this week.

paulisi · Tennis legend

R32: Harry Meehan (Q) WR 1005 v Romain Bauvy (FRA)(Q) WR 1048 =CH

Not a bad draw for Harry on paper.

CD may well know a bit more.

steven · Tennis legend

With updated rankings (Harry crept back into the top 1000 today):

L32: (Q) Harry Meehan WR 996 v (Q) Romain Bauvy (FRA) UNR (CH 1048 in 2013)

Looks a decent draw to me too

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Oh yes, you could do a lot worse than draw Bauvy :)

To do him justice, he's certainly a lot better than Leo Boos, for instance, in Harry's first round. And a couple of years' ago, age 18, looked really pretty promising (he beat Smethurst and Slabbers that year)

But he's plateaued out the last two years - playing a lot of tennis but not really going anywhere, and staying at the same ranking (he's got the same domestic ranking as Harry, in fact, which is -15)

This year, he lost to Matt Short in a League match and also lost to Sean Thornley and Clay Crawford last year (!) To be honest, I think the ATP CH ranking and French domestic ranking are probably about right - ie. they're quite close, but if Harry is really on the way up, and serving well, this is as good a chance as he's going to get, especially in a 15k.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 6th of October 2014 04:22:27 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (3) Ugo Nastasi & Hugo Nys (LUX/FRA) CR 1016 (854+262) defeated Thomas Le Boulch (FRA) & Harry Meehan CR 2338 (1338+995) by 4 & 2

steven · Tennis legend

Harry is up against it here but he saved match point(s) at *1-5 down in the 2nd and has since got one break back

6-7(4) *3-5

steven · Tennis legend

... all to no avail though:

L32: (Q) Harry Meehan WR 996 lost to (Q) Romain Bauvy (FRA) UNR (CH 1048 in 2013) by 7-6(4) 6-3

It really hasn't been a good day for the Brits in Futures/10Ks, has it - W 1 L 5 so far

paulisi · Tennis legend

Disappointed - It's Tuesday and there is hardly any GB players left in main draw (male or female)......

steven · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Disappointed - It's Tuesday and there is hardly any GB players left in main draw (male or female)......

Yes - especially when you look at the same week last year - http://www.britishtennis.net/gbtop25m/2013wk41.htm - loads of points due to come off on Monday week. Of course, the fact that 3 of the tournaments Brits did well at in week 41 last year (Sunderland, Marathon & Akko) may have something to do with it!