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A win for James but not to be for the 16 year-olds, or Flavell

 

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James ALLEMBY (GBR)     7-6(5) 6-0     Daniel QUEROL CHERIGNY (ESP)

Colin VAN BEEM (NED) [3]     6-1 6-0     Roberto PREKA (GBR)

Claudio QUINONES GARCIA (ESP)     6-3 6-2     William FLAVELL (GBR)

Leevi SAATELA (FIN)     6-2 6-2     Samuel ROBERTS (GBR)

 

Edit:  just noticed the misspelling of the name of the venue!  wink



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 6th of October 2015 07:51:51 PM

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Third-set TB went the wrong way..... :(

QR2: Sergio BARRANCO (ESP) [10] 7-5 1-6 7-6(6) James ALLEMBY (GBR)

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R1: (1) Alex Ward WR 335 v Michael Grant (USA) WR 877

In the doubles, Alex is back with Dowson but has drawn the second seeds.

James A is with yamasaki (JPN)

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R1:  Yusuke Takahashi & Renta Tokuda (JPN/JPN) UNR vs James Allemby & Jumpei Yamasaki (JPN) UNR
R1:  Dan Dowson (AUS) & Alex Ward CR 1681 (935+746) vs (2) Samu Arauzo & Jean-Marc Werner (ESP/GER) CR 1048 (310+738)

The winners of those two matches face one another in the QF.



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R1:  Yusuke Takahashi & Renta Tokuda (JPN/JPN) UNR defeated James Allemby & Jumpei Yamasaki (JPN) UNR by 5 & 2



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L32:  (1) Alex Ward WR 377 defeated Michael Grant (USA) WR 838 (= CH) by 3 & 1



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L16:  (1) Alex Ward WR 377 vs (Q) Colin van Beem (NED) WR 1056 (CH = 537 in August 2013)



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R1:  Dan Dowson (AUS) & Alex Ward CR 1681 (935+746) defeated (2) Samu Arauzo & Jean-Marc Werner (ESP/GER) CR 1048 (310+738) by 3 & 1  biggrin

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QF:  Yusuke Takahashi & Renta Tokuda (JPN/JPN) UNR vs Dan Dowson (AUS) & Alex Ward CR 1681 (935+746)



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I realise that Alex is with his new team now, and that it's not easy when there's such a huge gap in rankings between the team members.

But he's playing so many 10ks with them - which makes sense for them but does it make sense for him? He's the top seed in most, having to play all week (in theory) and just for 10ks.

The Morocco challenger, for instance, is on clay, pretty close, not very strong - Alex would have had a great chance to do something.



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From a points perspective, Mr Ward still has a lot of 0-3 point tournaments where a 10 or an 18 would come in handy. So I can see that. But it would indeed be good to see him getting some higher quality opposition on a regular basis.

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Alex is 5-2* up

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L16:  (1) Alex Ward WR 377 defeated (Q) Colin van Beem (NED) WR 1056 by 3 & 0

The match last an hour & 14 minutes with that first set accounting for just over 50 of them!



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I think its a good thing that he's doing it this way. It'll mean his ranking is more stable which will allow him to have a longer stint at challengers in the future!

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I think its a good thing that he's doing it this way. It'll mean his ranking is more stable which will allow him to have a longer stint at challengers in the future!

 

Yeah, and i think it means he's more likely to get injured and have a shorter stint smile

I know you can argue it each way but, at 25, I think you've got to step up and, having worked his ranking back up, I'm surprised he doesn't seem to be trying some challengers too. But, hey, ... whatever works and 20/20 hindsight would be a great thing.....



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Coup Droit wrote:
Jaffa wrote:

I think its a good thing that he's doing it this way. It'll mean his ranking is more stable which will allow him to have a longer stint at challengers in the future!

 

Yeah, and i think it means he's more likely to get injured and have a shorter stint smile

I know you can argue it each way but, at 25, I think you've got to step up and, having worked his ranking back up, I'm surprised he doesn't seem to be trying some challengers too. But, hey, ... whatever works and 20/20 hindsight would be a great thing.....

Pure speculation here, but if having gone into a new training environment, they have changed some things about his game.  If so, they may think that it is a good idea to bed those changes in by getting a lot of matches before testing himself at a higher level.

As you say, this can be argued both ways. Only time will tell.

 



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