Week 19 - Challenger (€50,000+H) - Samarkand, Uzbekistan - red clay

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 19 - Challenger (€50,000+H) - Samarkand, Uzbekistan - red clay

indiana · Tennis legend

"he's 30!" - My word, good on the old guy for still giving it a go. Reckon though if Luke just tries moving him around those old limbs might begin to creek a bit

Anyway, all the best to Luke, although I wonder about his singles / doubles priorities at the moment. No doubt he will be partnering Liam again. A short term push for a Wimbledon doubles WC or a longer term arrangement, which would concern me more re singles implications ( perhaps for both ) ?

Hope Liam and Brydan can get some much needed singles wins and hence too more matches under their belts.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Luke's match is about to start.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
No doubt [Luke] will be partnering Liam again [in the doubles]. A short term push for a Wimbledon doubles WC or a longer term arrangement, which would concern me more re singles implications ( perhaps for both ) ?

He is, but they've drawn the short straw:

R1: Ivan Gakhov & Aslan Karatsev (RUS/RUS) CR 896 (619+277) vs Matt Ebden (AUS) & Brydan Klein CR 464 (283+181)
R1: Luke Bambridge & Liam Broady CR 509 (262+267) vs (2) Sergey Betov & Mikhail Elgin (BLR/RUS) CR 315 (92+223) bleh

That said, the second seeds lost out to Yuki Bhambri & Adrián Menéndez, who were unseeded, in three earlier today, so they're not invincible!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Luke's got the first set 6-3

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Solid looking won for Luke. Great to see.

QR2: (q6) Luke Bambridge WR 729 beat (qWC) Sarvar Ikramov (UZB) WR 960 (CH 535 in Sept 2012) 6-3 6-2

FQR: (q6) Luke Bambridge WR 729 v Sergey Betov (BLR) WR 855 (CH 340 in Jan 2011)

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Sunday 10th of May 2015 09:46:38 AM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

More good news to wake up to as Luke wins his FQR.

FQR: (q6) Luke Bambridge WR 729 beat Sergey Betov (BLR) WR 855 (CH 340 in Jan 2011) 7-6(4) 6-4

Qualifiers (plus 1 LL) have not been placed yet. Some tough draws though apart from one spot.

(2) Dustov WR 106
(3) Menendez WR 121
(4) Karatsev WR 166
(7) Bhambri WR 186
(WC) Karimov WR 1113 (CH 1012)

Rankings taken from Drawsheet. Haven't looked to see this mornings updated rankings.

Pretty obvious who all the qualifiers will want out of that lot.

DWH · Club Coach

Well done Luke. smile

Gets the second seed and home player Dustov in R1 though. (Looking on the atp livescores app)

If I remember Liam beat Dustov in Australian Open qualies. Hopefully he has some tips. Get him Luke. smile

-- Edited by DWH on Monday 11th of May 2015 07:19:08 AM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Yes. Qualifiers just been added to the draw and Luke got the worst of the lot.

L32: (Q) Luke Bambridge WR 732 v Farrukh Dustov (UZB) WR 108 (CH 98 in Feb 2015)

With updated rankings

DWH · Club Coach

Brydan was a break up when I last looked but is now on serve at *4-5.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Just to bring them all together

L32: (6) Liam Broady WR 178) v Adrian Sikora (SVK) WR 334 (CH 275 Feb 2014)
L32: (8) Brydan Klein WR 207 vs (WC) Sanjar Fayziev (UZB) WR 562 (= CH)
L32: (Q) Luke Bambridge WR 732 v Farrukh Dustov (UZB) WR 108 (CH 98 Feb 2015)

Brydan has just lost the first set 7-5

seagull · Hall of fame

Brydan takes second set 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brydan got the second set 6-2 and is an early break up in the third: 1*-0

Jaffa · Challenger level

Brydan won 5-7 6-2 6-1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well done, Brydan. Has had a rather sad list of singles losses recently.

Liam 4-3* on serve

and good luck to Luke, difficult but at least a few points and a cheque guaranteed - and who knows . . .