Week 20 French Open Qualifying

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 20 French Open Qualifying

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

The BBC write-up includes a few comments from Kyle and JoKo.

www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/32834286

Priesty · Challenger level

Yes good luck for today Kyle, but please try and do better than yesterday, what on earth happened to those 3 games?? wink

Jan · Hall of fame

Thanks for the report LTR.
Great to hear that Kyle's playing so well and good luck to him today!

TMH · Futures qualifying

RJA wrote:
It might be worth mentioning, although hopefully it won't be a factor, but there will be at least three LL spots in the main draw. Raonic, Tipsarevic and Benneteau have all withdrawn.

As Benneteau as a lucky loser (and possibly Tipsy too, or was he using a PR?), does his place definitely go to a LL?

TMH · Futures qualifying

indiana wrote:
I think a fair amount of scattering of qualifying seeds is to be expected. There actually isn't that big a difference in general standard ( similar to how I am pretty sure many more seeds fall early in challengers compared to main tour and futures ), plus being on clay probably mixes things up even more, certainly as against hard.

I don't know what the sort of normal qualifying seed attrition rate here is, I presume not quite as much as seems to be the case this year.

Especially when you take into account the amount of 'clay court specialists' and 'wily veterans' who lurk a bit lower in the rankings who are usually up for an upset on this surface. But yes, that does seem an exceptionally low number of seeds (or top 16 seeds, at least).

RJA · Hall of fame

TMH wrote:
RJA wrote:
It might be worth mentioning, although hopefully it won't be a factor, but there will be at least three LL spots in the main draw. Raonic, Tipsarevic and Benneteau have all withdrawn.
As Benneteau as a lucky loser (and possibly Tipsy too, or was he using a PR?), does his place definitely go to a LL?

As things stand, and assuming no more withdrawals happen before the draw takes place, there will be 3 LL spots in the draw. The 5 highest ranked losers in the FQR will be randomly drawn with 3 of them getting in. Kyle is the 5th highest ranked player left in the qualifying draw so if he loses he will still have a 60% chance of making it in as LL. In the event of further withdrawals there will be additional LL spots and the size of LL draw will increase. i.e 4 LL spots results in the 6 highest ranked losers in FQR entering the draw and so on.

Hopefully this is all irrelevant and that Kyle does the business on court.

Jan · Hall of fame

Kyle's match is up on LS

Jaffa · Challenger level

Off to a flyer. *2-0

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Good start!

Jan · Hall of fame

another hold 3-0*

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Do you think that maybe Kyle knows I have to go out in 20 mins and is trying to get this over with quickly ?

*4-0

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

"It's not really a break until you have held your own serve" - tick.

Edit - Blimey! he won another game while I was typing the above!

-- Edited by Madeline on Friday 22nd of May 2015 01:24:19 PM

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

5-0* - tick again.

Jan · Hall of fame

He certainly seems to be in a hurry at the moment!
Makes following LS so much less stressful!