Week 1 - ATP 250 - Chennai, India

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 1 - ATP 250 - Chennai, India

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Here's hoping James gets the year off with a bang.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Come on James let's have a good start in your inevitable rise to WR 83 by the end of the year!

seagull · Hall of fame

James 2-1 up going with serve

seagull · Hall of fame

Early break and James leads *3-1

seagull · Hall of fame

Consolidates for 5-2*

seagull · Hall of fame

After a lengthy game in which James had at least one set point he double faults to be broken. 5-4*

seagull · Hall of fame

Good response as he breaks again to take the set 6-4

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Wardy wins 6-4 6-3. Great to see him start the season with a win.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

OK. Let's do this properly.

QR1: (q2) James Ward WR 156 beat Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) WR 211 6-4 6-3

FQR: (q2) James Ward WR 156 v (q6) Somdev Devvarman (IND) WR 177 (CH 62 July 2011)

Qualifying Spots in Main Draw against

Andrey Rublev (WC)
Nicolas Almagro
Qualifier v Qualifier

Some tasty chances there for anyone who can get through.

Jan · Hall of fame

Good news - well done James.

Bright Spark · Lower Club Player

Well done to James. I think it's a good change to give points for first round qualifying wins for 250s and only having the two rounds

wolf · Tennis legend

Bright Spark wrote:
Well done to James. I think it's a good change to give points for first round qualifying wins for 250s and only having the two rounds

Also there is a qualifying entry list, which there wasn't before.

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: (7) Vasek Pospisil (CAN) WR 39 v Aljaz Bedene WR 45

R1: (3) Marcus Daniell & Artem Sitak (NZL/NZL) CR 119 (76+43) v Aljaz Bedene & Treat Huey (PHI) CR 565 (532+33)

TMH · Futures qualifying

Bright Spark wrote:
Well done to James. I think it's a good change to give points for first round qualifying wins for 250s and only having the two rounds

Actually it's because there's only two rounds that there are points for winning the first round qualifying matches - it's 12 points for qualifying and 6 points for making the FQR (for all 48-64 man ATP 250 events), same as it always was.

I've not been following so I don't know if there only being two rounds is tournament-specific, due to a lack of participants or is it a blanket change for all ATP events this season?