Week 24 - Challenger (€42,500) - Ilkley, GB (Grass)

Jan · Hall of fame

RE: Week 24 - Challenger (€42,500) - Ilkley, GB (Grass)

Jaffa · Challenger level

Quite clearly a tactical MTO being taken by Menendez at *3-0

indiana · Tennis legend

How un-British

Jaffa · Challenger level

It's worked... Now *4-3

Jan · Hall of fame

Josh to serve for it *5-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The little beauty! He's only been & gone & done it! biggrin

L32: (WC) Josh Milton WR 319 defeated (6) Adrián Menéndez (ESP) WR 111 by 1-6 7-6(5) 6-4

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L16: Yuki Bhambri (IND) WR 153 vs (WC) Josh Milton WR 319

Jan · Hall of fame

YES!
Well done Josh

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

SO GOOD !!!!

Jaffa · Challenger level

CH win? That was superb.

TMH · Futures qualifying

Another brilliant battling win for Josh.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Let's hope Liam & Marcus can take a leaf out of his book...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

First set Jaziri 6-4 - fair score really.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

TMH wrote:
murray_2k9 wrote:
BeefyDeedz wrote:
murray_2k9 wrote:
Epic choke from Evo, *6-3 in the second set TB, lost it 6-8!
That is the least 'epic' 'choke' I've ever seen. Players often lose TB's from winning positions on serve - it's part of the TB's nature.
Behave, 6-3 up on serve, on grass, is a rare position to lose from.
Behave?

You must not see a lot of tennis, or perhaps you're just a bit sensationalist if you believe losing a tie-break from 6-3 up is an 'epic choke'. Not really sure what the grass factor has to do it with (was it even on grass? It may well have been indoors by the sounds of it) given it was a tie-break situation. Not like he served for the match on multiple occasions. It's very possible to lose 3-5 points in quick succession without 'choking'. Christ almighty.

It is incredibly rare to lose 5 points in a row in a TB, especially when three of those are on serve and MPs. However you choose to look at it, the third set would very much suggest that it was a choke, and Evo threw in the towel. Not sure what part of that makes me a sensationalist with no knowledge of tennis.

BradMarx90 · County player

Just managed to get Internet access since arriving onboard my latest cruise ship.

Congrats to Josh for a fantastic win! He had a good run in Surbiton last week so it's very encouraging to see that form continuing. Keeping my fingers crossed for Marcus and Liam - I have a good feeling that one or both of them will come through.

RJA · Hall of fame

Liam lost 4 and 4.

Looks like a pretty routine win for Jaziri as he didn't face a single break point.