Week 13 - Challenger ($50,000) San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Clay)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

RE: Week 13 - Challenger ($50,000) San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

For the sake of completeness:

L32: (Q) Caio Zampieri (BRA) WR 371 defeated Brydan Klein WR 210 by 6-1 6-7(8) 6-1 bleh

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Can't believe clay is Brydan's favourite surface (!) so not surprised.

Think he's just trying to get some practice in, to give the clay season the best shot. After all, guess he'll be in the Roland Garros qualies no problem . . .

LouieG · County player

Might have been a better option to play a clay futures or two, first.

RJA · Hall of fame

Regardless of the rankings this was pretty much as expected. Bet365 had Klein at 5/2 and Zampieri 2/7

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

You ll be glad of that result RJA I'm sure.....

British_is_Best · County player

Coup Droit wrote:
Can't believe clay is Brydan's favourite surface (!) so not surprised.

Think he's just trying to get some practice in, to give the clay season the best shot. After all, guess he'll be in the Roland Garros qualies no problem . . .

He is scheduled to play in the Mexican hard court challengers that are coming up (starting next week) so he probably thought he would give this a go given he was already headed for Mexico.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

British_is_Best wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Can't believe clay is Brydan's favourite surface (!) so not surprised.

Think he's just trying to get some practice in, to give the clay season the best shot. After all, guess he'll be in the Roland Garros qualies no problem . . .
He is scheduled to play in the Mexican hard court challengers that are coming up (starting next week) so he probably thought he would give this a go given he was already headed for Mexico.

That makes sense. Hopefully, the hard will reap better results.

indiana · Tennis legend

With no points to defend before Wimbledon, and plenty time away from the dirt, Brydan certainly should be back into the top 200 before too long.

RJA · Hall of fame

Jaggy1876 wrote:
You ll be glad of that result RJA I'm sure.....

I have never hid my deep dislike for Klein but in the spirit of this forum I largely avoid talking about him and have no problem if other people here choose to support him. My post was not remotely judgemental but did provide some context about this result which simply going by rankings looked to be a very poor one.