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emma


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Julia Carrot wrote:
BeefyDeedz wrote:

Andy is playing dubs with Kokkinakis.

 I like that.

 

 yes, I do too.



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Cream Crackered by the looks of it, always going to be a tough ask, what he could done with a week in between.

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Disappointing.

But, James, still won't be forgetting last Friday in a hurry !

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Fact is James is a perennial ranked 85-200 player he could break the top 100 by luck like a few have but hasn't got the game to be any higher. I stand by my predictuon Brydan and will finish above James this year and is an all round better player.

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indiana wrote:

Disappointing.

But, James, still won't be forgetting last Friday in a hurry !

Nor will the USA. In Jon Wertheim's "Mailbag" for this week, someone writes in to ask whether Andy Roddick could come out of retirement to beat "Jimmy" Ward in a best-of-five match!

No shock in the defeat under the circumstances. Hope he can now get a little rest and prepare for his next tournaments.



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How is the ll situation?

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I'd actually be surprised if he signs in for a LL place, why not rest and save yourself for Irving next week, higher chance of points there.

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freerider wrote:

How is the ll situation?

Daniel Gimeno-Traver and James were the highest seeds to lose in the FQR. Under the new ATP rules, there would must have been a random draw between them for the first LL place, which DGT must have won, because he is already in. James should be next in line though, should he want to play.



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I should imagine he would: he's not even in Irvine yet, is he?

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What a pity. I really hope he has a good run wherever he plays next, he deserves it.

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I probably had similar thoughts in the past as jaggy about James being generally in a perennial rankings range and that he would probably be "lucky" to make the top 100.

But how in the last year he has got himself to the cusp of the top 100 ( best WR 101 in January ) , with his previous best prior to last August being WR 137, has certainly not been by luck.

As various people have commented over the last year, James has become much more consistent from match to match and tournament to tournament.

An indication of this consistency is that, unlike many similarly ranked players, his ranking is not largely influenced by big ranking points outliers, sometimes obtained in rather fortunate looking circumstances.

For, in James updated total of 516 ranking points, he has only one score above 50 and that is 70 from last year's Cincinnati Masters where he qualified and beat two top 100 players prior to beating Garcia-Lopez, WR 32, in the last 64.

The final points that James will hopefully get to edge him over that top 100 line might yet turn out to have an element of luck about them ( he has arguably had some bad luck in not already having done it, as is likely with someone who who has got so close ). However, how he has got to the position he is currently in is by upping his overall game, not by luck.

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Agreed. And it was interesting to read some non-UK commentators on the Isner game, all of whom noted that Ward's game - and especially his movement - had improved significantly. (Of course, had they read the discussions on this board, this would not have come as a surprise!)

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Andy getting his eye & keeping his hand in!

R1:  (WC) Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) & Andy Murray CR 710 (287+423) defeated (4) Jean-Julien Rojer & Horia Tecau (NED/ROU) CR 18 (9+9) by 3 & 5  biggrin



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Should have helped him getting used to the climate, surface and balls. The balls particularly are very different to those used in the DC, I understand.

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A big server and a top returner should make a decent pair. Must be quite decent to take out the four seeds.

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