Week 37 - Challenger ($50,000) Cary, USA (Hard)

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Week 37 - Challenger ($50,000) Cary, USA (Hard)

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Brydan is first up tomorrow at 12 noon local time so i assume that is 17:00 UK time. Should be on a streamed court.

Josh is 3rd up/ not before 15:30 local time on a court which i don't think will be streamed.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (4) Ryan Harrison (USA) & Brydan Klein CR 361 (119+162) vs Kevin King & Connor Smith CR 647 (213+394)

Spectator · All-time great

Brayden Schnur is very good indeed and is still at university (hence his low ranking). Given that Mr Cox will have had to travel, this might be a more interesting match than it looks on paper.

indiana · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Brayden Schnur is very good indeed and is still at university (hence his low ranking). Given that Mr Cox will have had to travel, this might be a more interesting match than it looks on paper.

Thanks, Specator, all in all I am thinking so "interesting" as to be pretty concerning and a good match to win.

Spectator · All-time great

I don't know. But he's beaten Gosea twice, and, looking at his record in greater depth, beat Bemelmans in Qualifying at the Montreal Masters (before getting thumped by Yen-Hsun Lu. Not quite there yet!) Losses are mainly to fairly decent players. So at the least, it's not a run-of-the-mill "player in the 700s" draw.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brydan's match has started nicely enough (although pretty uninspiring from both)

Brydan leads *3-1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brydan took the first set 6-2.
But lost the second 0-6
Is a break down and has just fluffed break-back points in the third
But as I write has now got one, so 2-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

the tennis wasn't always that pretty but Klein showed good grit to come through that.

Brydan won 6-2 0-6 6-3

thejester · Satellite level

Well done to Brydan for battling through in the end

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to get through, but while prize money is welcome, Brydan needs to progress further to make any real ranking points progress. His current 18th best is 6 points ( second only to Andy among Brits so good consistency ), winning R1 here is worth 7 points therefore increases his points so far by a net 1 ( and 7 points will become his 18th best for next week ).

Actually, as far as I can see, only 4 British men have a full set of counters : Andy, Brydan, Josh Milton and Richard Gabb.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 14th of September 2015 07:06:50 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

First set to Josh vs Eric Quigley 6-2, no BPs faced.

indiana · Tennis legend

Quigley earns his first BPs of the match and takes the second.

Josh 6-2 0-2*

indiana · Tennis legend

Broke back and held serve

2-2*

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Bryan only about 100 points behind Ward now in my prediction of Konta and Klein to be ahead of Watson and Ward. In my opinion on their day and potential wise the two Ks are better players going forward overall than the two Ws