Week 17 - Challenger ($50,000) - Tallahassee, USA - Clay

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Week 17 - Challenger ($50,000) - Tallahassee, USA - Clay

paulisi · Tennis legend

Luke lost 7-6(3) 6-3 in what was only a 2 round qualifier.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

It's just like deja vu all over again.

R1: (2) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 253 (127+126) vs Luke Bambridge & Liam Broady CR 609 (301+308)

Also playing

R1: Alex Ward & Jason Kubler (GBR/AUS) UNR (***+723) vs Alex Kuznetsov & Tennys Sandgren (USA/USA) CR 685 (416+269)

And just to add to the "fun" the winners of these two matches will meet in the QF.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Struggling to understand the seedings in the doubles. They are listed as follows:

(1) Duran & Olivo CR 376
(2) Skupski & Skupski CR 253
(3) Cerretani & Dancevic CR 399
(4) Ward & Kubler CR 5722

Further more, the Nº1 seeds and the Nº3 seeds have been draw to play each other in the first round.

Edit

Just so you know, the CR of 5722 for Alex W and Jason K is NOT a typo. It really says Five thousand, seven hundred and twenty two.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Sunday 26th of April 2015 06:33:09 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

In the singles

L32: Liam Broady WR 177 vs (Q) Sekou Bangoura (USA) WR 606 (CH 497 Oct 2014)
L32: Alex Ward WR 330 vs (4) Jason Kubler (AUS) WR 152 (CH 136 Nov 2014)

Alex is first up at 3pm UK time and his match is immediately followed by Liam's match. They are on Court 1, so hopefully they will be streamed.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Sunday 26th of April 2015 06:43:04 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Struggling to understand the seedings in the doubles. They are listed as follows:

(1) Duran & Olivo CR 376
(2) Skupski & Skupski CR 253
(3) Cerretani & Dancevic CR 399
(4) Ward & Kubler CR 5722

Further more, the Nº1 seeds and the Nº3 seeds have been draw to play each other in the first round.
Edit
Just so you know, the CR of 5722 for Alex W and Jason K is NOT a typo. It really says Five thousand, seven hundred and twenty two.

I see what you mean, Bob. Utterly baffling & completely bonkers! confuse Let's hope they revise it!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Struggling to understand the seedings in the doubles. They are listed as follows:

(1) Duran & Olivo CR 376
(2) Skupski & Skupski CR 253
(3) Cerretani & Dancevic CR 399
(4) Ward & Kubler CR 5722

Further more, the Nº1 seeds and the Nº3 seeds have been draw to play each other in the first round.
Edit
Just so you know, the CR of 5722 for Alex W and Jason K is NOT a typo. It really says Five thousand, seven hundred and twenty two.
I see what you mean, Bob. Utterly baffling & completely bonkers! Let's hope they revise it!

I hope they revise it so that Ken/Neal aren't playing Liam/Luke !!

Tennismad95 · Improver

The draw is correct they just have got the seeding wrong at bottom of the draw sheet.
1) Ken and Neal skuspki
2) Kevin king and dean o'brien
3 matt ried and Carsten ball
4) frank dancevic and james cerretani

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Tennismad95 wrote:
The draw is correct they just have got the seeding wrong at bottom of the draw sheet.
1) Ken and Neal skuspki
2) Kevin king and dean o'brien
3 matt ried and Carsten ball
4) frank dancevic and james cerretani

I think "wrong" would be an understatement. wink

philwrig · Hall of fame

Would you Adam and Eve it ?!

Spectator · All-time great

Oh, that's rotten.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Tennismad95 wrote:
The draw is correct they just have got the seeding wrong at bottom of the draw sheet.
1) Ken and Neal skuspki
2) Kevin king and dean o'brien
3 matt ried and Carsten ball
4) frank dancevic and james cerretani

You got that one wrong, Tennismad: the dog's breakfast of a draw sheet has finally been tidied up & Carsten Ball & Matt Reid are unseeded & drawn to play the actual third seeds, Guillermo Durán & Renzo Olivo.

Just to confirm:

R1: (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 251 (126+125) vs Luke Bambridge & Liam Broady CR 540 (268 (*)+272 (**))
R1: Jason Kubler (AUS) & Alex Ward UNR (***) vs Alex Kuznetsov & Tennys Sandgren (USA/USA) CR 641 (382+259)

(*) +33 in today's rankings

(**) +36 in today's rankings

(***) Alex is currently without a doubles ranking, though he has a CH of 379 from September 2013. Jason's current ranking is 725.

freerider · Futures level

A-ward an early break up agaonst the 4th seed. On court 1 so probably streamed but im at wprk so cannot check :(

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

freerider wrote:
A-ward an early break up agaonst the 4th seed. On court 1 so probably streamed but im at wprk so cannot check :(

http://livestream.com/ATP/tallahassee2015court1

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Alex saves two BPs from 15-40 to hang on to his break.

4-1*