Week 42 - ATP World Tour 250 - Vienna, Austria - Hard (JW)

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

RE: Week 42 - ATP World Tour 250 - Vienna, Austria - Hard (JW)

Sim · County player

Madeline wrote:
I came back to check the score and it had vanished from livescores but was not showing on completed matches.

I agree it is really annoying - why can't they put the score on the completed matches before they remove it from the livescores. I don't need to know that the score in the next match is 0-0 when they are walking out to the court or warming up. confuse

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Sim wrote:
Madeline wrote:
I came back to check the score and it had vanished from livescores but was not showing on completed matches.
I agree it is really annoying - why can't they put the score on the completed matches before they remove it from the livescores. I don't need to know that the score in the next match is 0-0 when they are walking out to the court or warming up.

http://www.flashscore.com/tennis/

Gives you history as well, have a play.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QR1: (q3) James Ward WR 119 defeated Antonio Veic (CRO) WR 211 by 5-7 6-4 6-3

*****

QR2: QR1: (q3) James Ward WR 119 vs Norbert Gombos (SVK) WR 140 (CH = 124 in June this year)

In their only previous encounter, James beat Gombos by 2 & 4 in the first round of the Shanghai 1 Challenger in 2012.

Jan · Hall of fame

well done James - have to confess I forgot all about this

FriendofLouieG · Lower Club Player

LouieG wrote:
Maybe we shouldn't have looked so far ahead. Veic has taken the 1st set 7-5. Also nice to know that I have a friend apparently :)

Go Wardy!

Gombos is v winnable!

Believe!

Spectator · All-time great

And if he gets through that match, he won't be facing Coric. One teenaged threat was removed by another: Nishioka beat Coric 6-4 6-2.

DavidC · Tennis legend

JW 4*-5 (no breaks - James with the only two breakpoints so far)

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

*5-6 now after missing 3 BPs in total during the set but pushing Gombos to deuce in his last 3 service games.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Ward loses the breaker 6-8 from *6-4 up - messy

RJA · Hall of fame

murray_2k9 wrote:
Ward loses the breaker 6-8 from *6-4 up - messy

bleh

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

And loses the 2nd 6-3.

Such slim pickings this year at tour level, shows how good Murray has been in distracting us from the state of tennis elsewhere.

That said, some good developments at challenger level so fingres crossed there

LouieG · County player

A shame, but onto the next one

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

murray_2k9 wrote:
And loses the 2nd 6-3.

Such slim pickings this year at tour level, shows how good Murray has been in distracting us from the state of tennis elsewhere.

That said, some good developments at challenger level so fingres crossed there

I don;t think one can be gloomy about the progress of men's tennis this year. In fact, it's Murray who's shown the most significant drop and been the most disappointing (although with certain reasons).

This time last year, James was WR 183 and is now WR 119. This time last year there was only one guy ranked in the 200s. And today we have 6 (although 1 is an ex-top 150 guy so only 5 are 'new' stars)

Whereas Andy was WR 4 and is now WR 11 (it's almost tripled). Only Dan Evans has anywhere near that level of drop, and his drop has only been a doubling. The other top 10 guys have all put in a good stint.

RJA · Hall of fame

Coup Droit wrote:
murray_2k9 wrote:
And loses the 2nd 6-3.

Such slim pickings this year at tour level, shows how good Murray has been in distracting us from the state of tennis elsewhere.

That said, some good developments at challenger level so fingres crossed there

I don;t think one can be gloomy about the progress of men's tennis this year. In fact, it's Murray who's shown the most significant drop and been the most disappointing (although with certain reasons).
This time last year, James was WR 183 and is now WR 119. This time last year there was only one guy ranked in the 200s. And today we have 6 (although 1 is an ex-top 150 guy so only 5 are 'new' stars)
Whereas Andy was WR 4 and is now WR 11 (it's almost tripled). Only Dan Evans has anywhere near that level of drop, and his drop has only been a doubling. The other top 10 guys have all put in a good stint.

I think the worry though is that of all the guys who have "put in a good stint" most of them are players who I just don't see ever progressing beyond being good futures players. Outside of Murray and Ward there is only Evans, and we all know the question marks about him, and younger players like Edmund and Broady.