Week 48 - Qatar F4 ($10,000) - Doha (outdoor hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 48 - Qatar F4 ($10,000) - Doha (outdoor hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Luke Bambridge & Kaichi Uchida (JPN) CR 862 (300+562) defeated Antoine Bellier & Johan Nikles (SUI/SUI) CR 1959 (620+1339) by 5-7 6-3 [10-5]

I feared the worst when I left work with them 5-7 down, so a good result to which to come home. smile

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Final: (1) Luke Bambridge & Kaichi Uchida (JPN) CR 862 (300+562) vs Joris de Loore & Laurens Verboven (BEL/BEL) CR 2109 (1011+1098)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Good to see Luke progress, interesting but I suppose predictable pattern when more senior players match up against top juniors ie that of just squeezing the first set and then conceding the next two. When there is a run of futures and the same cohort of players playing a swing you often get to see repeated match ups and obvious progression ... Ie younger player looses second set on tie break .... then goes on to win third match up.

I would love to see Luke have a bit of sustained Ift singles success before stepping back up to challengers in the domestic grass season followed by an American initially futures based swing similar to the one he did with Luke in 2014 finishing with the autumn challengers.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Saturday 5th of December 2015 02:27:35 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Oakland2002 wrote:
Good to see Liam progress, interesting but I suppose predictable pattern when more senior players match up against top juniors ie that of just squeezing the first set and then conceding the next two. When there is a run of futures and the same cohort of players playing a swing you often get to see repeated match ups and obvious progression ... Ie younger player looses second set on tie break .... then goes on to win third match up.

I would love to see Liam have a bit of sustained Ift singles success before stepping back up to challengers in the domestic grass season followed by an American initially futures based swing similar to the one he did with Liam in 2014 finishing with the autumn challengers.

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The Optimist · ATP qualifying

If I were you, Oakland, I'd stick to just typing 'LB'! Can't go wrong then.....

paulisi · Tennis legend

Underway

Didn't realise that Alex's conqueror was still going.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Bambo 5-2 up

The Belgium is getting beaten up by Alex's conquerer.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Bambo 5-2 up

The Belgium is getting beaten up by Alex's conquerer.

A whole country? confuse

paulisi · Tennis legend

Why not???

Bambo leading 6-3 4*-3

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (8) Luke Bambridge WR 680 defeated Antoine Bellier (SUI) WR 748 by 3 & 3

paulisi · Tennis legend

Final number 4 - and still yet to win that elusive title. At least it's not another Brit

Anyway trivia question - Bambo got to WR 503 without winning a title, any ideas what is the best singles ranking achieved without winning a singles title? (I've no idea of the answer)

Etienne · Club Coach

Given that Laura R famously has only one title, I suspect that it'll be top 50.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Anna Kournikova got to WR 8 having never won a WTA event, but did win 2 x ITF events....

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Final: (8) Luke Bambridge WR 680 vs Dominik Kellovsky (CZE) WR 1079 (CH = 1031 in October)

Here's hoping Bambo can prevail where Alex (2), Uchida (6) & de Loore (5) failed. The latter had four match points in the third-set tie-break, but failed to convert any of them, while Kellovsky converted his first! He's going to be a handful.

indiana · Tennis legend

Great opportunity for Luke. Kellovsky has clearly been having a good week, but his general ranking and results suggest a top level less than those he has beaten. So if Luke himself plays near his best hopefully tomorrow will be his titles start.