Week 4 - France F3 - Veigy-Foncenex - $10k - Indoor - Carpet

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 4 - France F3 - Veigy-Foncenex - $10k - Indoor - Carpet

paulisi · Tennis legend

Scott is going well in his quest to qualify for this tournament on the Swiss border, close to Geneva. 4-1 up first set.

paulisi · Tennis legend

FQR:(q2) Scott Clayton WR 776 bt Andrew Ruppli(SUI) (q15) WR 1319 6-3 4-6 6-4

R32: Richard Gabb WR 495 v Alexandre Folie (BEL) WR 502 CH 334

qualifiers not placed yet

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Scott has got Filip Horansky (SVK), seeded 6th, WR 367, CH 317 (6 months ago), ex-junior no 3

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (WC) Guillaume Laurent & Fabien Salle (FRA/FRA) UNR vs (3) Scott Clayton & Richard Gabb CR 695 (372+323)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Scott is a set up against Horansky

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Scott is a set up against Horansky

He did rather better than that. He actually won:

L32: (Q) Scott Clayton WR 776 (= CH) defeated (6) Filip Horansky (SVK) WR 367 (CH = 317 last August) by 2 & 5 biggrin

*****

And, what's more, he gets a fellow qualifier in the next round! wink

L16: (Q) Scott Clayton WR 776 vs (Q) Elie Rousset (FRA) WR 980 (CH = 454 in July 2013)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Nice win - and a decent draw with a chance for more points, although I suspect the focus is on the doubles.

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Nice win - and a decent draw with a chance for more points, although I suspect the focus is on the doubles.

I would certainly hope not !

Yes, the doubles has been going pretty well and they will want to continue that, but surely 21 yo Scott still very much wants to accomplish in singles and it is much more than a relatively less important accompaniment.

Very good win and great looking chance to go further.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 25th of January 2016 01:46:14 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Let me just explain that comment - he will be expected as a good doubles player and seeded to go deep in the doubles and pay some of the bills. The singles is always going to be more difficult as he had to qualify and then knew he would draw a seed in one of the first two rounds.
Scott will be trying to push his singles ranking, but it will be quite hard with the loaded draws at present. He is getting regular points, but not enough of the big ones to make a major impact on his ranking yet.

indiana · Tennis legend

.. so he needs to keep a big focus on it, especially once he is in the main draw to get more more points to push up his ranking, which in itself in time helps to avoid qualifying and then he can continue that focus.

How else does his singles really improve so that it ( presumably where he would most ideally like to succeed in anyway ) can become more of an earner ?

Focus on doing well in both, perfectly possible, but again for the above reasons I would certainly hope that his main focus is not the doubles.

That should be well down the road, if at all, for this young man