Week 9 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Quimper, France (hard)

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

RE: Week 9 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Quimper, France (hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good win - good points

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice-ish pay cheque too (and adding the doubles one).

Assuming de Schepper wins, he's not been playing the best tennis recently. No great shakes. Or, at least, a fair way off what it was (which was always a bit spotty and highly serve-dependent).

bigboyjumbo · Lower Club Player

Ed definitely makes the most of what he's got! have a lot of respect for him, very hard worker!

freerider · Futures level

Well done on utilising a kind draw for some decent points. eds first challenger qf?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

What he's done well, too, is to defend (in arrears or in advance) pretty much all the points he had to defend in March (a 10 last week, an 8 and a 15 at the start of April). His next couple of months are really skinny in terrms of points to defend - barely anything until August. So he will have a real window to crack on and try and get into the top 200. And possibly a Wimbledon WC.

indiana · Tennis legend

Good stuff.

Tennis is about most sets won with games and points a means to that end, and often being good at winning the ones that really matter. Seems Ed did so on this occasion so good match play.

TMH · Futures qualifying

Great battling win that, well done to Ed.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Darren Walsh now up in the doubles

paulisi · Tennis legend

Darren got it back to 3-3 after going a break down

Kenny DS is a set and a break down.....

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Barrère saw off KdS by 5 & 2, so

QF: (Q) Ed Corrie WR 266 vs (WC) Grégoire Barrère (FRA) WR 435 (CH = 426 last month)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, Kenny 'not playing that well recently' certainly proved true . . .

Barely put up any resistance. And 6 months ago he thrashed Barrere.

So, good on Barrere - took quite a few GB scalps last year (Rice, Alex Ward, Coupland etc) but lost easily to Liam. And lost to Jack Carpenter. A pretty fairly ranked guy, from what one can tell, who travels a lot, and plays a lot, and may well be going up - but hardly 'scary'.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The boys couldn't quite force the match into an MTB:

QF: (4) Flavio Cipolla & Dominik Meffert (ITA/GER) CR 272 (173+99) defeated Sander Arends (NED) & Darren Walsh CR 452 (277+175) by 6-4 7-6(5) cry

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ed is third up tomorrow, not before 3.30 UK time.

Nice to see two wildcards and a Q in the last 8.

freerider · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
Ed is third up tomorrow, not before 3.30 UK time.

Nice to see two wildcards and a Q in the last 8.

would be nicer still to see a Q in the sf (and beyond) :) Best of luck to Ed tomorrow. Might knock off work a bit early as can watch this on my laptop and DC on the big screen! spoilt for choice