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

indiana · Tennis legend

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

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Two out of three in Cary.

Looking good.

And that's pretty much covered Josh's September points.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Two out of two Dan to come tomorrow

RJA · Hall of fame

Coup Droit wrote:
Two out of three in Cary.

Looking good.

And that's pretty much covered Josh's September points.

And after that he only has another 24 points to defend for the rest of the year. Top 250 by the end of the year and a place in Aussie Open qualifying seems like a realistic goal.

thejester · Satellite level

RJA wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Two out of three in Cary.

Looking good.

And that's pretty much covered Josh's September points.
And after that he only has another 24 points to defend for the rest of the year. Top 250 by the end of the year and a place in Aussie Open qualifying seems like a realistic goal.

Absolutely realistic. Josh's looked increasingly solid over this year as a whole. Would be great to see him in qualifes down under. And also would be good to see him knock off a few of those 24 points with a couple more wins this week

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Two out of three in Cary.

Looking good.

And that's pretty much covered Josh's September points.
And after that he only has another 24 points to defend for the rest of the year. Top 250 by the end of the year and a place in Aussie Open qualifying seems like a realistic goal.

Yes. Exactly.

And, in fact, it's effectively only 18 points to defend because he has a bundle of 2-pointers to replace the ones dropping off.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The story so far:

L32: (6) Brydan Klein WR 178 defeated (PR) Dennis Nevolo (USA) WR 537 by 6-2 0-6 6-3

L32: Dan Cox WR 321 vs (WC) Brayden Schnur (USA) WR 685 (CH = 456 in August last year)

L32: Josh Milton WR 319 defeated Eric Quigley USA WR 301 by 6-2 7-6(4)

*****

L16: Chase Buchanan (USA) WR 330 (CH = 158 in August last year) vs (6) Brydan Klein WR 178

L16: Josh Milton WR 319 vs (2) Austin Krajicek (USA) WR 130 (CH = 113 in August)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Very pleased for Milts, toughie next, it would certainly be massive if Josh could accumulate enough ranking points for Oz next year.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Read that as O2 which would be very impressive! Aussie qualies must be a realistic target. I have only seen him play a couple of times but he looked to have a game that should be competitive at challenger level and in GS qualys, just needed a little more consistency and that seems to be coming.

thejester · Satellite level

I read it as O2 initially as well Oakland!
Josh certainly seems to be much more consistent this year and is closing out matches that he'd struggle to get over the line in previously. I also think his tournament schedule has been good this year with a mix of challenger and futures events that's yielded a decent return so far. It would be great to have 4 or 5 men in AOQ's for sure

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Could be 6! Hopefully Kyle will stay fit and continue to push on into the top 100 and be well clear. Wardy, Evo, Brydan, look likelies and Liam and Milts possibles. Happily settle for 4 with Wardy and Kyle in the MD

airsmashers · County player

All 3 Brits are first up on their respective courts at 5pm our time.

indiana · Tennis legend

As far as I can see re the Aussie Open, allowing for points to come off :

1) Andy and Aljaz will be in the main draw.

2) Kyle should be in the main draw, doesn't need to gather that many points.

3) James and Brydan will comfortably make qualifying but are currently very far off making the main draw.

4) Evo looks likely to make qualifying, hasn't too much more to do.

5) Anyone else has a tough job to make qualifying based on current WR 250 being on 192 points. Dan Cox looks in the best position pointswise having "banked" 139 points for entry date before any points this week, but including his Nottingham final points, but his form is a bit questionable. Liam and Josh have a bit more to do.

I'd say 3 for the main draw. As for qualifying, certainly 3, 4 would be pretty good and 5 or more would be really good going from where they all currently are. Certainly a good target for some, but a pretty challenging one. Would be good if this week significantly helped.

Since there does appear some interest in who might make a late bid, I'm planning on starting an Aussie Open points thread based on next Monday's ranking points, a sort of race to entry date with the precise points position on Monday.

To this end, can I clarify a couple of things with anyone in the know :

Are both Aussie Open main draw and qualifying entry lists based on the rankings 6 weeks before the opening Monday, 18th January, i.e. the Monday 7th December rankings ?

What is about the normal ranking required for Aussie Open qualifying ? WR 250 ?

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 16th of September 2015 12:55:49 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Can't help with the questions, Indy, (although I'd have said the cut-off was about 250 too, if asked, although just from the top of my head).

but the thread sounds a good idea - I like the 'countdown' of deadline grand slam qualifications. And, although unlikely, there are certainly a few who could maybe have a little run for it.

Will also be interesting to see Ed's form when he comes back from his lay-off period.

Not worth starting a separate one for the women maybe, but Katy Dunne must be in with a shout of Qualis too (and just possibly Mandy, who's also in the top 300 for the race, but won't do it at 10ks).

Good luck to the boys tonight.

goldenboy · Club Coach

i think the cut-off for AO qualies tends to be greater than 250 - though partially because you won't get many players hanging around / able to get out there at the drop of a hat for late withdrawals. can't find the stats though.

also think its just 3 weeks deadline for qualies