Week 42 - Challenger (€50,000) - Bangalore, India (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

Week 42 - Challenger (€50,000) - Bangalore, India (Hard)

LouieG · County player

Hopefully knocks up a few wins this week!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: James Ward & Purav Raja (IND) UNR (*) vs (4) Gerard Granollers & Adrián Menéndez (ESP/ESP) CR 500 (292+208)

(*) James currently has no doubles ranking, but a CH of 233 (August 2011), while Raja's is 95. At least he's with a half-way decent partner. Lousy draw, though, weak as it is!

wolf · Tennis legend

This is guaranteed not to get through the swear filter, but James is now up against lucky loser Lak**** Sood.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (LL) Laksh1t Sood (IND) WR 1243 (CH = 1075 in July) vs (2) James Ward WR 159

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (LL) Laksh1t Sood (IND) WR 1243 (CH = 1075 in July) vs (2) James Ward WR 159

Sood has only ever played two Brits in singles in seniors, Jamie Baker in 2009 and James Marsalek in 2012, and he got thrashed 1 & 2 each time. Let's hope this James can hand out more of the same!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And James won, 6-1 6-1 !!!

(cue chorus of angels singing hallelujah, praise to the skies........)

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Or even thank goodness!

indiana · Tennis legend

Or as some would chorus :

Go Wardy, Go Wardy, Go Wardy ....

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

James has a very nice draw with no possibility of a seed until the SF ((4), Devvarman) and it would be a real shame to let it slip away at a time where he really needs some points.

thejester · Satellite level

Yes, I was initially wondering why James chose India, but looking at the draw he's made a good choice. Obviously he still has to win the matches but that was a nice start and hopefully a couple of wins will get his confidence going again.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (2) James Ward WR 159 defeated (LL) Laksh1t Sood (IND) WR 1243 by 1 & 1 smile

*****

L16: Ilya Ivashka (BLR) WR 388 (CH = 377 last month) vs (2) James Ward WR 159

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Surprised everyone so confident considering Ivashka duffed Ward up only a month ago.

-- Edited by Jeff Stelling on Tuesday 20th of October 2015 09:55:35 AM

Topemp · Strong Club Player

Jeff Stelling wrote:
Surprised everyone so confident considering Ivashka duffed Ward up only a month ago.

-- Edited by Jeff Stelling on Tuesday 20th of October 2015 09:55:35 AM

Well, if you're going to start bringing FACTS into it....

thejester · Satellite level

I don't think anybody's being overly confident, just pointing out it's a nice draw and a good opportunity to go deep.
As I said, he still has to win the matches!