Alas (q1) Matt Ebden (AUS) WR 135 d Colin Fleming UNR 4-6 6-2 6-3.

Not a bad loss, though, against quite a decent player. Pity he hit Ebden; would guess he could probably have triumphed over most of the other players.

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 20th of July 2015 05:30:58 AM

scottie1 wrote:

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Spectator wrote:

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Alas (q1) Matt Ebden (AUS) WR 135 d Colin Fleming UNR 4-6 6-2 6-3.

Not a bad loss, though, against quite a decent player. Pity he hit Ebden; would guess he could probably have triumphed over most of the other players.

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 20th of July 2015 05:30:58 AM

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I have never quite understood why Colin gave up singles so quickly as I think he could be top 300 

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Not sure where Colin would stand in the singles rankings but the above performance seems to hint that he could at least be competitive. If he can keep getting into the qualifying draws for singles when he's playing doubles then I say keep it going. At worst it's a few extra notes in the wallet, and you never know what you can do given a decent draw

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Dom Inglot is another who would make a good fist at a singles ranking (although, financially for both, doubles is so much more lucrative I'm not sure if it's worth bothering). But I'd like them too !

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I seem to recall Dom playing in singles qualies somewhere (possibly during the grass court season at some point last year?) and winning a couple of rounds whilst serving an absolute truck-load of aces. Lots of free points on that serve!! I guess the issue is that to make any real impression on the singles rankings (other than qualifying for and winning the ATP/challenger events they enter for doubles) would mean playing at futures, which they can't afford to do in order to keep their doubles rankings up. As you say CD, doubles at their level is far more financially rewarding than playing singles at 200, 300 or 400 in the rankings. But it's always nice to see them having a dig at singles too

To go one further - Dom actually qualified for the St Petersburg 250 in 2013, and lost to Fognini in the first round 6-4 6-4.

I recall he beat Kudryavtsev in the FQR in two tight sets. The infuriating thing being Ward lost to the same player a few weeks earlier/later in Fergana in the first round in a Challenger draw that had finalist written all over it.

I've managed to hunt it down. Dom made it through 3 rounds of qualifying in Kuala Lumpur on indoor hard (well remembered Bob!) in 2012 - losing to Bogomolov Jr in the MD
He also came through qualifying at St Petersburg in 2013 (on indoor hard again - Bob knows his stuff) losing 4-6 4-6 to Fognini - which looks respectable enough

 

Edit - I did manage to hunt it down, but clearly it took me so long on these ancient PCs at work that half the forum got there first!

-- Edited by thejester on Monday 20th of July 2015 11:59:24 AM

James has 48 points coming off this week (his final at Lexington last year) and 35 the week after, plus a whopping 70 points two weeks after that . . .

Good luck, Sharp Shirt Man . . .