Week 5 - Challenger (€42,500) - The Scottish Championships, Glasgow (indoor hard)

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

RE: Week 5 - Challenger (€42,500) - The Scottish Championships, Glasgow (indoor hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lordy, Dan C dodged a bullet, or five, that set.

The Dutchman will be sorely miffed to have squandered so many chances.

Let's hope the second set is more straight-forward.

paulisi · Tennis legend

A1 tennis academy wrote:
Hi Bob Marcus just sent me a picture of him in action on court looking fitter than he's been since his junior days will do wonders for this confidence if can see the hard work paying off .
playing higher ranked challengers definitely way to go
1) play higher ranked foreign players
2) uk futures tournaments packed with Brits means match ups/knowing your game eliminates element of surprise particularly
3) chance to raise your game against stronger opponents
4) greater points opportunities
The only downside to challengers as option to futures is the generally higher cost of getting to foreign challengers

the other downside is that he will still have to qualify as his ranking isn't high enough yet and you get no points or prize money if you don't get through....

Definitely the way to go though.

Italy and Poland next two weeks?

paulisi · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Lordy, Dan C dodged a bullet, or five, that set.

The Dutchman will be sorely miffed to have squandered so many chances.

Let's hope the second set is more straight-forward.

Dan has the break 2- 0 up

paulisi · Tennis legend

Dan 4-1* and on course for a meeting with Dan S for a place in the QF

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As hoped/expected, Middelkoop played a poor start to the second set, with a real face on him.

Dan took advantage. Now to close it out. 4-1*

Add: and nicely done, Dan smile

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 4th of February 2015 04:52:24 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

GSM Dan Cox - 4 through to last 16 and 1 definitely through to QF

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

I did not get a chance to speak to Marcus in detail about schedule but definitely a number of french challengers , and maybe you guys will have a view on the easier challengers to qualify ? What about china easier or as tough as anywhere .

Key going to be achieving a ranking where straight into main draw what's that going to be for most challenger events ?

LTA Reducing player bonus's but more UK challenger events would be a welcomed trend !

steven · Tennis legend

L32: (WC) Dan Cox WR 284 beat (Q) Matwe Middelkoop (NED) WR 624 (CH 197 in 2008) by 4 & 1
L32: (WC) Dan Smethurst WR 292 beat (5) Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA) WR 190 (CH 165 last Jun) by 7-5 7-6(4)
L32: Ed Corrie WR 243 beat (WC) Alex Ward WR 342 by 3 & 3
L32: (Q) Josh Milton WR 384 lost to (6) Julian Reister (GER) WR 186 (CH 83 in 2013; on a 5-match losing streak) by 1 & 1
L32: (Q) Marcus Willis WR 357 beat (8) Matteo Viola (ITA) WR 185 (CH 118 in 2013) by 2 & 2
L32: (WC) Ewan Moore UNR lost to Roberto Marcora (ITA) WR 233 (CH 215 last Sep; on a 7-match losing streak) by 3 & 1

L16: (WC) Dan Cox WR 284 v (WC) Dan Smethurst WR 292 *
L16: Ed Corrie WR 243 v (4) Andrej Martin (SVK) WR 189 (CH 119 in 2013)
L16: (Q) Marcus Willis WR 357 v Maxime Authom (BEL) WR 192 (CH 143 in 2013) #

* H2H 3-2, but DanS won their last meeting, in the Sheffield final last month, 4 & 4
# H2H 0-1 - Authom won 4 & 2 on clay in Jupille-sur-Meuse back in 2009

PS: In singles, that makes 6 Challenger R1 wins so far this week and at least 2 Challenger QF-ists (Kyle plus a Dan), along with the R1 ATP 250 R1 win for Wardy, not forgetting some impressive GB wins in qualifying in Dallas (Cam) and here too!

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 4th of February 2015 05:03:46 PM

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Dan S my favourite to win battle of the Dans shame Brits could not avoid each other until the SF ,

smether's capable of winning glasgow title this week !

But I also believe that Marcus could cause an upset . 1 match at a time with increasing confidence anything could happen

-- Edited by A1 tennis academy on Wednesday 4th of February 2015 05:00:14 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And three out of four of them in line to be the first this year to touch that sacred, holy pot - the LTA bonus fund. (One guaranteed taker, with the match of the two Dans; Ed 'too old' though . . . )

paulisi · Tennis legend

A1 tennis academy wrote:
I did not get a chance to speak to Marcus in detail about schedule but definitely a number of french challengers , and maybe you guys will have a view on the easier challengers to qualify ? What about china easier or as tough as anywhere .
Key going to be achieving a ranking where straight into main draw what's that going to be for most challenger events ?
LTA Reducing player bonus's but more UK challenger events would be a welcomed trend !

The French challengers are Cherbourg and them Quimper on 23/02 and 02/03

The weaker challengers are where people don't want to travel i.e eastern Europe, Australia(distance) and far flung destinations. I'd be tempted to stay away from the far east as there are a lot of under ranked players as the Asia guys don't tend to travel far.

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Marcus was not keen on Italy not sure why ? Might change his view after win over viola !

is Italy also hard ?

freerider · Futures level

A1 tennis academy wrote:
I did not get a chance to speak to Marcus in detail about schedule but definitely a number of french challengers , and maybe you guys will have a view on the easier challengers to qualify ? What about china easier or as tough as anywhere .
Key going to be achieving a ranking where straight into main draw what's that going to be for most challenger events ?

Cherbourg and Quimper challengers week 8 and 9 in Brittany both indoor hard.

With regard to main draw cut off for challenger it can vary wildly on location of event and what else is going on in that particular week.

To give you a very crude idea the last main draw DAs for the following:

Glasgow - 267

Burnie (aus) - 353

Dallas - 302

Hong Kong - 312

But then the provisional last direct for Bergamo next week is 208 after SEs cleared

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

paulisi wrote:
A1 tennis academy wrote:
I did not get a chance to speak to Marcus in detail about schedule but definitely a number of french challengers , and maybe you guys will have a view on the easier challengers to qualify ? What about china easier or as tough as anywhere .
Key going to be achieving a ranking where straight into main draw what's that going to be for most challenger events ?
LTA Reducing player bonus's but more UK challenger events would be a welcomed trend !
The French challengers are Cherbourg and them Quimper on 23/02 and 02/03
The weaker challengers are where people don't want to travel i.e eastern Europe, Australia(distance) and far flung destinations. I'd be tempted to stay away from the far east as there are a lot of under ranked players as the Asia guys don't tend to travel far.

will do those ! How many challengers in Australia I guess they are back to back prior to Aussie open right ?