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

Timothy · Improver

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

freerider · Futures level

Evo breaks *5-3 second set

freerider · Futures level

Evo takes the set 6-3 as does Milton his first set 6-3

paulisi · Tennis legend

Marcus is a break up in the third.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Dan saved several match points and broke Marcus serving for the match.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Evo crashes out by 6-7(9) 6-3 2-6! disbelief

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Well done Marcus! smile

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

BeefyDeedz wrote:
Well done Marcus!

Very happy with Marcus statistics % break points /aces

& % points won 1st serve biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin . I know Evo not at his best but it's still an excellent win & great to see that the side winders were hitting their targets

paulisi · Tennis legend

Hopefully Marcus will get one of the better draws(avoid Cox...)

Milts is a break up in the second set and must be serving well. 13 aces and yet to drop his serve. If Milts is serving well he is a danger against anyone.

Jaffa · Challenger level

Must be getting used to those new rackets.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Excellent win for Josh. Scott is a decent and improving player.

steven · Tennis legend

freerider wrote:
Shhh wrote:
Does ranking come into a LL spot decision? I ask because whoever loses out of Dan and Marcus will be the highest ranked possibility. 4 qualifiers and 1 luck loser.....now that'd be nice!
Yes in challengers it goes by highest ranked loser in FQR (unless the ruling has changed).

So you are correct if there is a LL spot available it will go to Evo or Willis assuming they sign in for it.

It has changed, apparently - ATP rule VII.7.20.a.i. now says: "Lucky Losers shall be selected based on the computer rankings used for the determination of qualifying seeding as follows: The order of the two (2) highest ranked players shall be randomly drawn, thereafter the order shall follow the players rankings, unless there are two (2) or more withdrawals at the time the Qualifying competition is fi nished in which case the size of the random draw will be the number of withdrawals plus two (2). In the case where players from the previous round are included in the draw they will be placed behind all players who have lost in the final round of qualifying."

So not as much uncertainty as in slams and Futures/ITFs, where the draw is between the top 4 (or more), but it doesn't mean Evo isn't guaranteed the first LL place.

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Evo crashes out by 6-7(9) 6-3 2-6!

Hardly a big surprise - Marcus had won 3 of their last 4 meetings. At least the scoreline suggests Evo didn't tank (whether or not he knew about the rule change I mentioned above)

freerider · Futures level

hope milton is streamed in his Round 1 match. would like to see his serve - by the look of the stats he seems to have beefed it up a lot

freerider · Futures level

Qualifiers placed.

Willis gets the 8th seed Viola wr 190
Milton gets the 6th seed Resiter wr 181
Cox has got MiddelKoop