Week 24 - ATP 500 (Queen's) - London, UK - Grass

Shhh · Challenger level

Week 24 - ATP 500 (Queen's) - London, UK - Grass

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

For the record (didn't expect anyone to have beaten me to it!):

QR1: (qWC) Brydan Klein WR 188 (CH = 174 in June 2009) vs (q5) Steve Darcis (BEL) WR 76 (CH = 44 in May 2008)

Unsurprisingly, they've never met before. Tough, tough, tough... disbelief

BradMarx90 · County player

Darcis beat Nadal at Wimbo a few years back if I'm not mistaken...?

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Anyone who can duff up the biggest cheat in professional sports is good in my book. Means I have split loyalties on this one.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

BradMarx90 wrote:
Darcis beat Nadal at Wimbo a few years back if I'm not mistaken...?

In the first round the year before last (7-6(4) 7-6(8) 6-4), hence my disbelief .

BradMarx90 · County player

BUT BUT BUT Brydan beat the British Number Two barely a week ago. So they're basically even. wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

BradMarx90 wrote:
BUT BUT BUT Brydan beat the British Number Two barely a week ago. So they're basically even.

Hmm...

Floody78 · Junior player

Care to quantify the biggest cheat in professional sport?

Am I missing something here?

Jaffa · Challenger level

Brydan will only win if he can catch Darcis cold... Unlikely.

goldenboy · Club Coach

v strong field at queens this year following the upgrade, seems to extend to the qualies too

Oakland2002 · All-time great

It's between Lance Armstrong and Robbie Savage, the later did loads of shirt pulling and shin kicking only to dive to the floor everything a gust of wind blew past him. Now he's all over the Telly like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, outrageous.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

More importantly good to see Brydan earn the chance to have a crack at a top 100 player after a good week last week,.

Floody78 · Junior player

To be fair to Savage, he admits he was a sh*t on the pitch.

If its related to Nadal and stupid steroid rumours, I saw him play Lee Childs as a 16-17 year old in 2003 and he had arms like tree trunks as a child.

indiana · Tennis legend

While I appreciate many wouldn't care for a lot of what Savage often got up to I find him very honest about what he used to get up to ( very calculatingly - goodness knows how often booked, but I believe just once sent off ). And he's pretty good at recognising bull****.

Yes, as a pundit I find his manner too often OTT and I can only take him in small doses, but that's a different mattter.

And I really do think that lumping in pro footballerers trying to get away with what they can on the pitch with drug cheats or say corruption rather ludicrous.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 13th of June 2015 11:51:48 AM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I could explain, but your right it is ludicrous.