Week 14 - USA F4 ($25,000) - Memphis, TN - (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 14 - USA F4 ($25,000) - Memphis, TN - (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The poor lad's taking a bit of a pasting: lost the first set by 1-6. cry

indiana · Tennis legend

Close in the second set though, but still not to be ...

L16: Luke Bambridge WR 492 lost to (8) Alex Kuznetsov (USA) WR 399 (CH = 120 in September 2013) 6-1 7-6(4)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Luke Bambridge & Darren Walsh CR 553 (308+245) defeated Jarryd Chaplin & Hunter Reese (AUS/USA) CR 1053 (320+733) by 7-6(1) 7-6(2) smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Luke Bambridge & Darren Walsh CR 553 (308+245) vs (3) Hans Hach & Evan King (MEX/USA) CR 593 (242+351)

Spectator · All-time great

Good stuff. Mr Bambridge has 59 points to defend before Wimbledon from Challengers wins last year - so wins at the 25K level are all to the good! If this (or another) partnership works, who knows ... could be in the 200s again by May/June ... or even higher ...

indiana · Tennis legend

Darren certainly too could probably do with a regular partner to help him get back into the top 200.

Probably more of an issue for Darren in that he is a committed doubles specialist while I am very reluctant to see Luke go on that path too soon. However there is no doubting that Luke has real doubles ability and is relatively struggling to breakthrough in singles, so it's a transition one could see him making in time.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 8th of April 2016 03:50:24 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Luke Bambridge & Darren Walsh CR 553 (308+245) defeated (3) Hans Hach & Evan King (MEX/USA) CR 593 (242+351) by 4-6 6-3 [10-8] smile

Spectator · All-time great

Good win! And good luck to them both in the final.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Final: (1) Luke Bambridge & Darren Walsh CR 553 (308+245) vs (4) Daniel Garza & Tigre Hank (MEX/MEX) CR 915 (420+495)

indiana · Tennis legend

Final: (1) Luke Bambridge & Darren Walsh CR 553 (308+245) beat (4) Daniel Garza & Tigre Hank (MEX/MEX) CR 915 (420+495) 6-1 6-2

Spaced · Lower Club Player

Good week for Luke and Darren! I wonder if in years to come we'll see Luke become a doubles specialist? Way too early to give up his singles aspirations just yet, but he's certainly shown more promise in doubles so far.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

Final: (1) Luke Bambridge & Darren Walsh CR 553 (308+245) beat (4) Daniel Garza & Tigre Hank (MEX/MEX) CR 915 (420+495) 6-1 6-2

Excellent news! biggrin I'm ashamed to admit that I completely forgot that the doubles final was being played today.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Fabulous result, I hope it becomes a regular pairing although can see that their different aspirations may make scheduling difficult. Definitely to be seen as an opportunity for Luke to get some experience of winning regularly while his singles career evolves can only be a positive thing.

Spectator · All-time great

Checking to see whether this was Mr. Bambridge's biggest title (I think it is) and also to see where this fit for Mr Walsh discovered a bit of an interesting fact ... Mr Bambridge has now won 13 doubles futures titles with ten different GB partners. Mr Walsh has won 8 futures and one Challenger, but before this weekend had never won a title while playing with a GB partner.