Week 4 - Challenger ($50,000) - Hong Kong - Hard

Oakland2002 · All-time great

RE: Week 4 - Challenger ($50,000) - Hong Kong - Hard

Priesty · Challenger level

I've just had the night from hell with sickness and diarrhoea so this has cheered me up no end.

Well done Kyle, fantastic week!

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Let's hope things continue to get better as events down under evolve and resolve simultaneously.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Excellent! Many congratulations to Kyle for his first Challenger title, and nice to get it done by beating a top-100 player for the loss of only three games. It was obvious that Kyle had the potential to win these titles but to do so must be a relief and now he has a whole half of the year to justify either consolidation or a developmental focus.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Fantastic result. Nice to see Kyle stepping it up at challenger level and hopefully another decent run at Burnie to boost that ranking.

He may actually have timed it right with the media focussing on Andy, Katie Swan this week taking up the headlines.

Hopefully this will spur on all the Brits in action in Glasgow, Dallas, Zagreb and Hungary next week.

Could be a good few weeks for GB tennis.

goldenboy · Club Coach

Just wow!! Destroyed top 100 player!

DF · Tennis legend

Congtrats champ !

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Absolutely pumped right now for Kedders. What a fantastic result and what a way to do it. You can almost see him getting stronger match by match. In the general scheme of things when we look back in a few years, this may be considered just be another "step in the right direction" but right now, it feels more like a "giant leap".

Go Kedders.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Going to enjoy posting this bit.

Final: Kyle Edmund WR 192 beat (2) Tatsuma Ito (JPN) WR 89 (CH 60 Oct 2012) 6-1 6-2

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Sunday 1st of February 2015 08:15:21 AM

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Morning everyone - I arose at a civilised time and watched the recorded stream, fast forwarding between points and games and hence saving a load of time.

I think Ito played quite poorly, but I was impressed with how Kedders bossed the points and never allowed into back into the match. A very professional performance I thought. The rankings/performance of the opposition was not super high this week, but we should note that Kyle didn't lose a set in 5 matches.

I wonder if Andy will win his final as easily

RJA · Hall of fame

Well I don't think we can have many complaints about that.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great to see Kyle win a challenger, the next step in his development. Has been a near perfect start to the year.

So is Kyle playing a couple more challengers down in Aus? Then probably one of Indian Wells/Miami? Must have something inbetween?

EddietheEagle · County player

And broken the 150 mark according to live rankings.

TMH · Futures qualifying

Absolutely fantastic.

Been a while since our last singles challenger win - Ward v Duckworth, 2013 I believe? Evans, Ward (again), Edmund and Broady have all made finals since then.

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Oakland2002 wrote:
Well played much too strong for Ito. Congratulations to kyle on first Challenger win, very dignified celebration suggests plenty more left in the tank and an exciting year to come. He looked so strong today that some premium scalps won't be far off.

Great job well done

He's already beaten Kenny de Schepper in Eastbourne pal