Week 5 - Challenger ($50,000) - Burnie, Australia - Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 5 - Challenger ($50,000) - Burnie, Australia - Hard

emma · Strong Club Player

well done to Kyle on his first round win especially after travelling from Hong Kong.

also congrats to Brydan.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

to both lads.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Good stuff, Kyle; after-the-Lord-Mayors-Show danger averted :)
Well done Brydan too :)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I am with Vohor on this one. I had a bad vibe about today with the "after-the-Lord-Mayors-Show" threat, particularly with the travelling between Hong Kong and Australia. So I am pleased/relieved that Kyle was able to get the win today. He continues to impress.

emma · Strong Club Player

steven wrote:
Updated rankings, etc:

L32: Kyle Edmund WR 148 v (WC) Harry Bourchier (AUS) WR 859 (CH 810 in Dec; 19yo junior CH 24 in 2013)

H2H 1-0 - Kyle won 6-4 7-6(3) at the junior Trofeo Bonfiglio in 2012

n/b 06.30 GMT on Tuesday morning

L32: Brydan Klein WR 251 v (Q) Andrew Whittington (AUS) WR 496 (CH 368 in 2014)

H2H 2-1 - Brydan won in Aussie Futures in 2011 and 2014 (3 & 3 each time) but lost 5 & 3 in Happy Valley last month

2nd after 23.00 GMT tonight

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 3rd of February 2015 01:48:28 AM

thanks Steven for putting the GMT times up - really appreciate it.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Kyle is now 3rd in the Race list of under 21s, here...

live-tennis.eu/race_under_21

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

That was a good, comfortable win for Kyle but yes, it's good to avoid those types of effects after winning a title. I'm repeating myself but Kyle continues to impress with his maturity and hopefully he can keep some consistency this year and really make a push.

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Kyle Edmund WR 148 beat (WC) Harry Bourchier (AUS) WR 859 (CH 810 in Dec; 19yo junior CH 24 in 2013) by 3 & 5

L32: Brydan Klein WR 251 beat (Q) Andrew Whittington (AUS) WR 496 (CH 368 in 2014) by 2 & 1

L16: Kyle Edmund WR 148 v Maverick Banes (AUS) WR 351 (CH 345 in Dec)
L16: Brydan Klein WR 251 v (LL) Matthew Barton (AUS) WR 609 (CH 201 in 2013) *

* H2H 1-1 both in Aus Futures - Brydan won 6-4 4-6 7-5 on hard in Esperance in 2011 but Barton won 3-6 6-1 7-6(4) on clay in Ipswich in 2012. Barton's has dropped a lot recently because he made the QFs both here (going out 15-12 in a final set tiebreak!) and in West Lakes (beating Cam in R2) last year.

Both are 4th after 23.00 GMT tonight, so are unlikely to start before about 03.30 GMT. Kyle's match says not before 02.00 GMT, but getting on at that time would mean the previous three matches averaging only an hour each.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

freerider wrote:
the milkman retired in his match today. Hopefully nothing serious

The seeds dropped like flies in the first round: only Duckworth (1) & Chung (8) remain! disbelief

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (3) Brydan Klein & Lee Hsin-Han (TPE) CR 389 (211+178) defeated James Duckworth & Luke Saville (AUS/AUS) CR 1895 (1306+589) by 4 & 5

*****

QF: (3) Brydan Klein & Lee Hsin-Han (TPE) CR 405 (215+190) vs Carsten Ball & Matt Reid (AUS/AUS) CR 867 (586+281)

Shhh · Challenger level

Half following Kyle on livescore. He flew out the blocks to lead 5-0 but since its been more even. He has just been broken serving for the match at 6-1 5-4. In fact, serving has become more and more of a problem for both players so either the standard of returning is great, or conditions may be a bit windy???

GBJ · Club Coach

Agghh! Just looked at live score myself - lost that second on a tiebreak and now *5-5 in the final set!

GBJ · Club Coach

Phew he held serve

GBJ · Club Coach

Now has love 30 - come on!!!