Week 18 - Challenger ($100.000+H) - Busan, South Korea (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Week 18 - Challenger ($100.000+H) - Busan, South Korea (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
QR1: (q3) Alex Ward WR 295 v Lloyd Glasspool WR 377
QR1: (q6) Michal Przysiezny (POL) WR 362 (CH 57 Jan 2014) v James Marsalek WR 654
Draws don't come much worse than this

bleh furious

Spectator · All-time great

Nooooooooo!!!

paulisi · Tennis legend

No Milts either

It is a loaded 100K+ event, so it would be tough for any of our qualifier to get through. Liam's done well to get an SE

Matosevic is the other seed in the all Brit section. Marzi has a real tough section

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Wonder what's happened to Milts he'd be seeded in both challengers. He seems to have went off the boil recently.

Vandenburg · Futures level

Ward v Glassvegas will be great. Wonder if we can stream?

It will give us a indicator to where Loyd is right now, I think he starts as fav.

-- Edited by Vandenburg on Friday 29th of April 2016 05:57:30 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:
Ward v Glassvegas will be great. Wonder if we can stream?

It will give us a indicator to where Loyd is right now, I think he starts as fav.

-- Edited by Vandenburg on Friday 29th of April 2016 05:57:30 PM

The ATP Livestream site normally only covers the MD. Don't know if you can get it anywhere else.

Vandenburg · Futures level

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Wonder what's happened to Milts he'd be seeded in both challengers. He seems to have went off the boil recently.

Was he ever on the boil?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:
Jaggy1876 wrote:
Wonder what's happened to Milts he'd be seeded in both challengers. He seems to have went off the boil recently.
Was he ever on the boil?

Yes. But it was a while ago. He had a terrific run through the grass court challengers last year, which unfortunately means he has a lot of points to drop off over the next few months.

RJA · Hall of fame

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Wonder what's happened to Milts he'd be seeded in both challengers. He seems to have went off the boil recently.

I have seen it claimed elsewhere that he is thinking of calling it a day but I don't know if there is any truth to that.

RJA · Hall of fame

Bob in Spain wrote:
Vandenburg wrote:
Jaggy1876 wrote:
Wonder what's happened to Milts he'd be seeded in both challengers. He seems to have went off the boil recently.
Was he ever on the boil?
Yes. But it was a while ago. He had a terrific run through the grass court challengers last year, which unfortunately means he has a lot of points to drop off over the next few months.

I will always wonder might have been had he not been robbed in that match against Berrer at Wimbledon qualifying.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Robbed is harsh, great performance played close to his full potential but wobbled around dealing with points that went against him and got completely distracted.

At such a high level of tennis you have to control the controllable and let the rest go unless you are specifically using an episode of disruption to lift you own game or like Novak (Aussie open final 2015) disrupt someone else's. To Berrer it was like water of a ducks back. Very entertaining game never the less.

Spectator · All-time great

The all-British Q match is starting ...

Shhh · Challenger level

Spectator wrote:
The all-British Q match is starting ...

I wondered what you were talking about at first Spectator until I checked the draw. I found the draw yesterday afternoon and Llyod was 100% the 8th seed in the same quarter as Alex. Obviously its been redone or altered in some way????

Michael D · All-time great

Alex has won 6-4 6-1, did not lose a breakpoint, so a good match from him.

Feel it is totally ridiculous that for a $100k tournament with a field this quality you have to win 3 matches to gain any points at all. It is a real anomaly in the men's rankings, compared with the women, and a wholly unnecessary handicap to prevent people in Alex's and Lloyd's category from moving up the rankings. It's wrong.