Week 45 - Challenger ($50,000) - Knoxville, TN, USA (indoor hard)

thejester · Satellite level

RE: Week 45 - Challenger ($50,000) - Knoxville, TN, USA (indoor hard)

thejester · Satellite level

Milts not going down without a fight, up a mini-break at 5-2* in the TB
Evo sees 2 set points pass him by on Nguyen's serve but takes the 3rd - and with it the set - 6-2

-- Edited by thejester on Tuesday 10th of November 2015 05:58:37 PM

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

As ever, I'm liking Dan's point construction. He manufactures another break and with it the set. Keep going mate! Unless his lelvel drops horribly, he should be in the bar in less than 40 mins...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

great set, Dan.

And so nice to be able at least to see half of Josh's match

- and what looked like an excellent tie-break !

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Having missed SPs in the 2nd set when serving at *5-4 40-15, Milts makes no mistake in the tiebreak. We are going to 3 here.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Dan takes a toilet break and is promptly broken. "Why take a phuqing toilet break when you don't need a phuqing piisssse". Indeed. Was lucky not to get a warning for obscenity for that.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Never seen a more absurd scoreline than Josh's. 0-6, 7-6, 06. How many times has that happened?

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Marcus due to lose all his points from his challenger exerts last year and will be close to dropping out of the top 500

Marcus lost these 18 challenger points on Monday, thus dropping from WR 413 to WR 476. He has nothing further to drop this year.

Pity, there's certainly a top 300 and more player in there.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 10th of November 2015 06:46:13 PM

thejester · Satellite level

Was just about to say that Steve! Crazy match, but can't argue with the result, one close set and two demolition jobs
Evo on serve in the decider, holding for 2-1*

thejester · Satellite level

Evo avenges that loss in Aptos qualifying, saving a BP to come through in 3. 6-2 2-6 6-3

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: Dan Evans WR 271 defeated Daniel Nguyen (USA) WR 222 by 6-2 2-6 6-3 smile

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good win for Evo.
I turned on at the start of the second set and I have to say the standard was high and the American played very well, but Evo got one chance and took it.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Isn't that who Dan lost to in Aptos earlier in the year? Nice turnaround. Good result for Dan S too, but shame for Marcus - points here and there.

Edit: Just saw that thejester confirmed - teaches me not to skim!

-- Edited by BeefyDeedz on Tuesday 10th of November 2015 07:10:08 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

FQR: (q7) Dan Smethurst WR 398 defeated (q1) Henri Laaksonen (SUI) WR 175 by 3 & 4 biggrin

FQR: (q2) Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 318 defeated (q8) Marcus Willis WR 413 by 3-6 6-4 7-5 cry

FQR: (q6) Sekou Bangoura (USA) WR 373 defeated (q4) Josh Milton WR 328 by 6-0 6-7(3) 6-0 bleh

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Revised main draw (with updated rankings):

L32: (Q) Dan Smethurst WR 401 vs Dennis Novikov (USA) WR 142 (CH = 138 at the start of this month)

L32: (7) Alejandro Falla (COL) WR 118 (CH = 48 in July 2012) vs Liam Broady WR 312 (CH = 158 in August)

L32: Dan Evans WR 271 defeated Daniel Nguyen (USA) WR 222 by 6-2 2-6 6-3

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to get the win in itself for Evo and hopefully more to come.

But also, although nothing to defend for a while ( next May ! ) he could do with pushing that 271 ranking up to more secure grounds as far as Aussie Open qualifying is concerned.