Week 40 - Challenger (€106,500+H), Mons, Belgium (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 40 - Challenger (€106,500+H), Mons, Belgium (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

L32: James Ward WR 149 v John-Patrick Smith AUS WR 108 (=CH)

H2H 0-1, 3 sets, Aptos Q 2013

The winner plays a former world no. 14, 2nd seed Janowicz, or former world no. 29 Dodig, while Belgian no. 2 Darcis is the top seed.

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting match up. John-Patrick strikes me as a player that James should at least be very competitive with in any reasonable form.

GBJ · Club Coach

I really don't get why James W is not dropping down a level slightly at the mo. Im not too sure how it works with tournament entries - suppose he would have expected to have won a match or two by now when he entered Mons but could he not have pulled out and at least gone entered an easier challenger or maybe even a 15k just to restart the winning habit? I hope I'm wrong but i see his chances of a win against JPS as about 1 in10 given current form. It seems odd not to try something different.

BradMarx90 · County player

Marsa's match will be underway shortly.

BradMarx90 · County player

Marsa has an early break, leading *2-1.

BradMarx90 · County player

Back on serve at *3-4.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Max broke and served for the set at 5-3 but James broke back and held - now 5-5

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

james ends up losing 7-5 6-1

The first set was terribly close - marzi had breaks points at 5-5...

But rankings will out.

However, James had a go at challengers a few weeks ago. Lost in Qs. And then went and had a very nice run up in Sweden in the ITF event. So let's hopoe it works that way again....

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 243 (117+126) v (2) Sergey Betov & Mikhail Elgin (BLR/RUS) CR 151 (74+77)

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 4th of October 2015 10:17:02 PM

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Seems harsh to pit the two top seeds against eachother in R1!

Miriambee · Futures level

murray_2k9 wrote:
Seems harsh to pit the two top seeds against eachother in R1!

Skupski's (with a lower ranking) are not the top seeds, they're unseeded DAs.

wolf · Tennis legend

Ah, I had copied it over from the Orleans thread and must have forgot to remove the seeding.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
Ah, I had copied it over from the Orleans thread and must have forgot to remove the seeding.

Including the misspelling of "Skupski", which I also edited yesterday! wink

Topemp · Strong Club Player

GBJ wrote:
I really don't get why James W is not dropping down a level slightly at the mo. Im not too sure how it works with tournament entries - suppose he would have expected to have won a match or two by now when he entered Mons but could he not have pulled out and at least gone entered an easier challenger or maybe even a 15k just to restart the winning habit? I hope I'm wrong but i see his chances of a win against JPS as about 1 in10 given current form. It seems odd not to try something different.

I agree with your general point, though don't believe he can drop out of an event he has entered and been accepted for to try his luck at lower level.

He could of course have entered a lower level tourney in first place.