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Bob in Spain


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That's 5 points closer to his Top 100 goal - 15 on and 10 dropping out.

That 5 points could lift him up 1 place and back to equal his CH ranking of 110. A QF win should see him surpass that ranking and just about into the automatic qualification places for the AO. Season not over yet though.

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Wardy has to be a serious contender this week looking at the way the draw is panning out and a 21 minute outing will do him no harm at all given the late flight and arrival following lasts week success. After his Davis cup win in the spring, Andy didn't look overwhelmingly surprised and implied James had some serious weaponry that justified top 100 status.

Hats off to James for optimising them and fine tuning their use. That allied to a bit of Davis cup attitude and James is getting pretty close to becoming a fully fledged ATP touring pro hopefully only dipping back into challengers with serious expectations of playing five set tennis four times a year, nearly there but a really tough winter training block must be on the cards between now and the AO. The mathematical symmetry of assessing players by which 100 they lie in is very tempting but from Bob's post looks like top 110 is where we should draw the line.



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Good news to wake up to. Next round will be very tough indeed though. Kokkinakis kicked on a few steps since James beat him last (plus James played very near his best that day).

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Huge matches for Kyle and James.

James has the big serving Aussie to cope with and if he wins with the top seed gone, he has a great chance to go all the way.



-- Edited by paulisi on Thursday 6th of November 2014 07:21:24 AM

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Well, I need James to get up to WR 85 by the end of this week - my prediction table needs a boost !

Good result, however it came.

Kokkinakis next for James . . .


In the doubles, Brydan and Dane also disposed of the second seeds very conveniently , winning 6-2 6-3

Into the Challenger final they go, again, playing the top seeds, our adopted Daniell and Sitak.

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SF: Brydan Klein & Dane Propoggia (AUS) CR 444 (235+209) defeated (2) Alex Bolt & Andrew Whittington (AUS/AUS) CR 221 (110+111) by 2 & 3 biggrin

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Final:  (1) Marcus Daniell & Artem Sitak (NZL/NZL) CR 202 (132+70) vs Brydan Klein & Dane Propoggia (AUS) CR 444 (235+209)



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Round-up:

L16:  (2) James Ward WR 111 defeated Jordan Thompson (AUS) WR 277 by 6-1 1-0 retired

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QF:  Kyle Edmund WR 246 v John Millman (AUS) WR 278 (CH 126 in 2013)
QF:  (5) Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) WR 153 (= CH) vs (2) James Ward WR 111



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We're 4 wins away from an abroad all-British challenger final! When was the last time that happened?

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LouieG wrote:

We're 4 wins away from an abroad all-British challenger final! When was the last time that happened?

 Don't get carried away yet. Both players have tough QF's

 

PS July 2005 - Boggo bt Hilts at Nottingham

 



-- Edited by paulisi on Thursday 6th of November 2014 12:28:05 PM

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According to Steven's records, that is the only all-British challenger final this century, so there hasn't been an "abroad" one in that time.

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I want to know where paulisi thinks Nottingham is.

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LouieG wrote:

We're 4 wins away from an abroad all-British challenger final! When was the last time that happened?

I was so close to posting something similar last night, but my jinxing skills are highly reknowned so I decided not to tempt fate.



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LouieG wrote:

We're 4 wins away from an abroad all-British challenger final! When was the last time that happened?

There have been quite a few all-GB Challenger SFs but I haven't found an all-GB Challenger singles final outside the UK in the last quarter of a century or so, having checked the obvious suspects. It's possible I've missed one but in some ways I doubt it, since if two Brits had contested a Challenger final overseas, you'd expect at least one of them to be among the players I've checked.

I think the last all-GB Challenger singles final in the UK before Boggo v Hilton in 2005 was Jeremy Bates v Andrew Foster in Bristol 10 years earlier, i.e. 1995, while Jonathan Smith lost Challenger finals against Brits in successive years - to James Feaver's dad John in West Worthing in 1981 and to (now) Wimbledon referee Andrew Jarrett in Solihull in 1982.

 



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... and then as soon as I'd written that, I thought of one obvious player I hadn't checked and found an all-GB Challenger singles final outside the UK after all.

Nick Brown beat James Turner 5 & 4 in the final of the Jakarta Challenger in August 1989.

Can anyone think of another one in the intervening 25 years?

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The "one obvious player" is lovely, Steven. Confirms your absolute mastery of this area ... "obvious" clearly being in the eye of the beholder.

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