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indiana wrote:

I only saw the end of the second set and then the third set. In that James looked pretty devoid of confidence and, presumably linked to that, enterprise. Sad to see.

Every time that I have watched him play this year he looks he is going through the motions. There is no intensity, no belief and no spark. Excluding Wimbledon, where he was aided by a fantastic draw, and one challenger which had a near futures level field he has been like this for 18 months. I hope that he can find something approaching decent form again but I don't see any reason for optimism.  



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James is unlikely to make US Open qualies at this rate.

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At last a bit of good news from deepest, darkest Georgia, where things go according to rankings for once:

R1:  (4) Sekou Bangoura (USA) & Darren Walsh CR 426 (182+244) defeated (WC) Mitchell Krueger & Daniil Medvedev (USA/RUS) CR 569 (279+291) by 7-6(8) 6-4



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What is there left to say - is he actually trying?

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I saw pretty much the whole match and what I thought was bizarre was that in the first set he was playing well - it wasn't that Tennys was playing badly, or hadn't got going, or was spraying the balls left, right and centre - James was playing decent tennis, moving well (for him), serving well, accepting the battle of the rallies, being the more aggressive player (without being daft) - it was not amazing, but good.

And then he seemed to be looking for an excuse to lose it. Which he found early on. And went for it full throttle.

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I saw most of the match. I agree that James played well in the first set and Tennys levels went up in sets 2&3. I've always stated that when James serves well, he plays well and he served well in the first set, but the first serve struggled a little later on. This may be down to the back problems he has had recently.

I agree that when James is aggressive he looks terrific, but he does tend to go into his shell a bit.

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Stircrazy wrote:

At last a bit of good news from deepest, darkest Georgia, where things go according to rankings for once:

 I am not sure that the coastal city of Savannah can really be described as deepest, darkest Georgia. 



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RJA wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:

At last a bit of good news from deepest, darkest Georgia, where things go according to rankings for once:

 I am not sure that the coastal city of Savannah can really be described as deepest, darkest Georgia. 

That was meant to be tongue in cheek.  I didn't even bother checking on its location when I typed it.   disbelief



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Toyed with going up to watch James yesterday but given his recent form couldn't quite convince myself the 3 hr round trip from the southern end of the state would be worthwhile. As things went yesterday the southern end of the state (so 120 miles away) was absolutely perfect for tennis! Gets a bit sweaty later but this time of year deepest darkest Georgia is tennis Nirvana.

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RJA wrote:
indiana wrote:

I only saw the end of the second set and then the third set. In that James looked pretty devoid of confidence and, presumably linked to that, enterprise. Sad to see.

Every time that I have watched him play this year he looks he is going through the motions. There is no intensity, no belief and no spark. Excluding Wimbledon, where he was aided by a fantastic draw, and one challenger which had a near futures level field he has been like this for 18 months. I hope that he can find something approaching decent form again but I don't see any reason for optimism.  

 Wonderfully stated.

Wimbledon was a kind draw, where he exposed some grass court clowns, and the Indian Challanger, like many challangers in 3rd world countries was like a futures. I would go further and say since, he won the epic 5 set match against Isner, his form has been a bit....



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QF:  (4) Sekou Bangoura (USA) & Darren Walsh CR 426 (182+244) vs (WC) Brian Baker & Ryan Harrison (USA/USA) UNR (0 [but a CH of 113 in October 2010]+307

A potential banana skin, methinks... 



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QF:  (4) Sekou Bangoura (USA) & Darren Walsh CR 426 (182+244) vs (WC) Brian Baker & Ryan Harrison (USA/USA) UNR (0 [but a CH of 113 in October 2010]+307

A potential banana skin, methinks... 

And banana skin it was:

QF:  (WC) Brian Baker & Ryan Harrison (USA/USA) UNR defeated (4) Sekou Bangoura (USA) & Darren Walsh CR 426 (182+244) by 2 & 5  bleh



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Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:

QF:  (4) Sekou Bangoura (USA) & Darren Walsh CR 426 (182+244) vs (WC) Brian Baker & Ryan Harrison (USA/USA) UNR (0 [but a CH of 113 in October 2010]+307

A potential banana skin, methinks... 

And banana skin it was:

QF:  (WC) Brian Baker & Ryan Harrison (USA/USA) UNR defeated (4) Sekou Bangoura (USA) & Darren Walsh CR 426 (182+244) by 2 & 5  bleh

 I am not sure it is accurate to describe it as a banana skin when the obvious favourites won the match.



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It's a fair description, though, in the sense that the "normal" expectation would be that a seeded pairing facing a wildcard unranked pairing would progress. As SC rightly implied and you state, the particular pairing in question was not your norm ...

While I would like to see Mr Walsh do well,  if the 1/2 GB team had to lose, I'd rather have it be to that pairing than to most.



-- Edited by Spectator on Friday 22nd of April 2016 08:40:18 AM

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Agreed, ludicrous to describe that as a banana skin. Two unranked yet top 100 pedigree players comfortably seeing off a jobbing doubles mid-tier pro and an underwhelming American.

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