Come on kedders

QR2:  (q6) Kyle Edmund WR 99 defeated Guido Andreozzi (ARG) WR 128 by 3 & 4

QR2:  Brydan Klein WR 178 defeated Tristan Lamasine (FRA) WR 206 by 3 & 2

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FQR:  (q6) Kyle Edmund WR 99 vs (q23) Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) WR 127 (= CH)

FQR:  Brydan Klein WR 178 vs (q26) Matt Ebden (AUS) WR 130 (CH = 61 in October 2012)

Good win for Kyle Edmund, and he plays Nishioka who he beat a few weeks back. If I remember rightly Nishioka had a bit of a meltdown the last time they met so will be very determined to get the win. I expect Kyle to win that match and hopefully get some luck with where hes placed in the  main draw.

Importantly he's now around 85 in the race rankings and with little to defend in terms of points he should hopefully cement his place in the top 80.

-- Edited by nicofrance on Thursday 27th of August 2015 09:26:09 PM

Looks like Nishikoras hand has heeled up but hopeful Kyle did a bit of psychological damage in Aptos despite playing badly. If Kyle can take the first set the pressures really on, if he looses it he knows he is well capable of bringing it back.

One more win and hopefully Kyle will be done with having to qualify for GS MD. I mean his progress through qualifying got a paragraph in both the Sun and the Gruniard today, now that's progress,

I think we would all be disappointed if Kyle wasn't top 80 as he is only going in one direction. My prediction that Brydan would finish above Ward is looking like it might happen also think I was the only one seeing that.

Tremendous own trumpet blowing

But yes, Jaggy, it looks exceedingly likely that Kyle will finish the season ahead of James, so well done you.

Oh and just confirmed my thoughts that I too predicted Kyle to finish ahead of James, so well done me too if we both end up right. And well done too in that event to anyone else you've missed ( edit :  would help if I read stuff properly since Jaggy has clearly talked about his prediction of err Brydan, rather than Kyle, finishing ahead of James, and I haven't predicted that !  Sorry and seriously well done mate iff and when that comes off as it may well do or may not do. Moving swiftly on ... )

Re Kyle's race situation I was just pointing out for the avoidance of doubt that points defences are irrelevant to the race. If he is currently number 85 ( and increasingly it seems beware live-tennis.eu which rather novelly currently has Kyle and others with rather less race points than they had on Monday ), higher or lower, all the players above him will have scored more points this season so far so aren't doing too shabbily.

Yes, Kyle is generally certainly continuing on an upward trajectory and isn't that far in points off the top 80 in the race, actually maybe very close.

But if he didn't rise higher in the race but "just" stabilised to end the season ranked in the mid 80s I can't say that I'd personally be particularly disappointed at all. It would have been a season of further big progression.

But could he finish top 80 ? Sure. And the higher the better  

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 28th of August 2015 07:21:16 AM

Jaffa wrote:

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I'm sure this question gets asked every year and I'm pretty sure I know the answer anyway but just to check...

Best of 3 in FQR?

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 Correct and a final set TB if required.