Week 1 - USA F1 ($25,000) - Los Angeles, CA (outdoor hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 1 - USA F1 ($25,000) - Los Angeles, CA (outdoor hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
He's also got his now confirmed R2 singles match plus R1 doubles match on today's schedule.

Busy boy! wink

indiana · Tennis legend

In R2 ...

Ed has just levelled it at one set all, 4-6 7-5

Joe a set down, on serve in the second, 3-6 3-3*

The winners of their two matches meet in the QF.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 8th of January 2016 01:32:51 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Joe lost 6-3 6-3

Ed : 4-6 7-5 2-1*

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Ed has fought off multiple BPs in game 7 to keep his nose in front in the decider at 4-3*

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Ed breaks at just the right time to win 6-4 in the 3rd.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ed wins 6-4 in the third

In the match he saved in total 14/16 BPs and took his 3rd from 9 to win the match

indiana · Tennis legend

R2: Joe Salisbury WR 646 lost to Clay Thompson (USA) WR 468 (CH 465 12/15) 6-3 6-3

R2: Ed Corrie WR 453 beat (PR) Dennis Nevolo (USA) WR 621 (CH 345 10/14) 4-6 7-5 6-4

QF: Ed Corrie WR 453 vs Clay Thompson (USA) WR 468 (CH 465 12/15)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

This tournament was a real cracker last year, lots of potential stars in the field partly due to youth is undergoing a general renaissance in the ranking compared to a couple of years back with approximately 10 teenagers in the top 200.

Still very interesting with Mmoh ( tough first round draw) and Kozlov in the draw, what's happened to the progress of Quinzi? Kyles vanquisher in the Wimbledon juniors semis as a 15 yr old and a world junior no1. Obviously still young but no longer in the top 20 under 20 and realistically not looking like he is going to dip under 200 as a teenager.

Has he really struggled with illness? Tonsillitis perhaps?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The doubles boys fell like nine pens overnight:

R1: Gonzales Austin & Ryan Lipman (USA/USA) UNR (734 & UNR) defeated (2) Joe Salisbury & David O'Hare (IRL) CR 483 (239+244) by 4 & 5 bleh

Spectator · All-time great

Not as bad as it looks, though they'll be disappointed. Gonzales Austin and Ryan Lipman are both underranked - usual university player stuff. Well done to Ed Corrie on his win.

Isn't Clay Thompson the rather unorthodox player who had that extraordinary run at the Champaign Challenger? (Answers own question, having googled: yes, he is. Quite a dangerous player. Ex-university at UCLA. Big game. Did for David Rice, Dennis Nevolo, Blaz Rola, Austin Krajicek. Narrow loss to Laaksonen in 3rd set tie break. Not to be underestimated.)

-- Edited by Spectator on Friday 8th of January 2016 10:23:48 AM

Spectator · All-time great

Oakland2002 wrote:
This tournament was a real cracker last year, lots of potential stars in the field partly due to youth is undergoing a general renaissance in the ranking compared to a couple of years back with approximately 10 teenagers in the top 200.

Still very interesting with Mmoh ( tough first round draw) and Kozlov in the draw, what's happened to the progress of Quinzi? Kyles vanquisher in the Wimbledon juniors semis as a 15 yr old and a world junior no1. Obviously still young but no longer in the top 20 under 20 and realistically not looking like he is going to dip under 200 as a teenager.

Has he really struggled with illness? Tonsillitis perhaps?

Three non-university players left as of QFs: Kozlov and Quinzi, who play each other, and Philip Bester. Not quite sure what has happened with Quinzi. Interesting given the progress of Hyeon Chung, whom he beat in the Wimbledon final.

TMH · Futures qualifying

Quinzi, Peliwo, Saville... all looked so dominant at junior level but still struggling to push on at senior level. Then you have all of the '92 slam winners bar Sock (Fernandes, Velotti, Fucsovics), as well as Daniel Berta from the '91 generation who are nowhere to be seen (Fucsovics pops up now and again). Plus the likes of Tiago Monteiro and Alejandro Gomez (who?)... are they even still playing?

Goes to show that it's not just Brits who often struggle to make the step up to senior level. Kyle is one of the few who has bucked the trend, and Liam looked like he had too, for a spell.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, there were some posts with figures fairly early on in Kyle's senior career making some comparisons and somewhat suggesting in a seemingly concerned way that he was getting left behind some of his peers.

I did say at the time that this was a much longer term thing as players adapted and progressed at different rates. I wouldn't now discount those who have fallen back for now ( or just not really progressed ), although we are now further on in their moves into seniors so comparisons are more legitimate.

Kyle's progress has been very good in the right direction, whatever maybe relatively minor ( but genuine ) quibbles I have had re such as schedule and the worth or not of competing in Slam qualifying.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 8th of January 2016 07:05:53 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Clay Thompson has taken the first set vs Ed 6-2