Week 18 - Mexico F1 ($10,000+H) - Córdoba (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Week 18 - Mexico F1 ($10,000+H) - Córdoba (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Well then again. Maybe not. According to, and I quote, the "REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED" version, they have just played the L16 matches.

RJA · Hall of fame

Luke into a final set, and is very lucky to be.

Tabilo took the first set 6-2 and led *5-4 in then second but eventually lost it on the tie break, losing 4 points in a row from 5-3*

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Luke into a final set, and is very lucky to be.

Tabilo took the first set 6-2 and led *5-4 in then second but eventually lost it on the tie break, losing 4 points in a row from 5-3*

But he still lost:

QF: Alejandro Tabilo (CAN) WR 1102 defeated (3) Luke Bambridge WR 488 by 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 bleh

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity. Luke is defending 13 points next week when these 3 points get added so he will be down 10 to 67 points on Monday week and fall back out of the top 500.

However, he will then have no further points due off until mid September so a big window to hopefully get that ranking moving quite a bit upwards again.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Pity. Luke is defending 13 points next week when these 3 points get added so he will be down 10 to 67 points on Monday week and fall back out of the top 500.

However, he will then have no further points due off until mid September so a big window to hopefully get that ranking moving quite a bit upwards again.

Noooooooooooo cry

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
Pity. Luke is defending 13 points next week when these 3 points get added so he will be down 10 to 67 points on Monday week and fall back out of the top 500.

However, he will then have no further points due off until mid September so a big window to hopefully get that ranking moving quite a bit upwards again.

It is certainly a decent window but at the moment there is little to indicate that Luke will take advantage of it as he has only won one match against a top 500 opponent so far this year, and that was his first match of the season.

As I have said before I remain baffled at Luke's lack of progress. There looks to be so much that is good with his game and by all accounts he has a good attitude and puts in the work off the court yet at the moment the results are lacking.

Etienne · Club Coach

Slipped under the radar a bit but:

Final: (3) Luke Bambridge & Farris Gosea WR 1141 (313+828) def. (4) Mauricio Astorga & Manuel Sánchez (MEX/MEX) CR 1156 (522+634) 7-6 (3) 7-6 (2)

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

RJA wrote:
indiana wrote:
Pity. Luke is defending 13 points next week when these 3 points get added so he will be down 10 to 67 points on Monday week and fall back out of the top 500.

However, he will then have no further points due off until mid September so a big window to hopefully get that ranking moving quite a bit upwards again.
It is certainly a decent window but at the moment there is little to indicate that Luke will take advantage of it as he has only won one match against a top 500 opponent so far this year, and that was his first match of the season.
As I have said before I remain baffled at Luke's lack of progress. There looks to be so much that is good with his game and by all accounts he has a good attitude and puts in the work off the court yet at the moment the results are lacking.

I was never over-impressed with Luke's game as a junior. I always felt that a lot of his good results owed a fair bit to his imposing physical presence as a youngster. Certainly, it always looked like there was so much more in Kyle's and Oli's games for example. So to me it is no surprise he is moving forwards slowly in relation to the progress his junior ranking might have suggested. He has had more to learn and build into his game than others of similar junior standing. That said, work ethic and attitude count for a lot. I see him steadily and slowly moving upwards to whatever his full potential is, rather than having a sudden breakthrough.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

And well done Luke and Farris on becoming dubs champs

Spectator · All-time great

Well done indeed. Mr Bambridge always comes across from what people say on here and what is written about him more generally as a very decent sort ... which is why he's one of the players I always particularly hope to see doing well. Hope that he does continue a steady progress, slow or not. What I'd be curious to know from those who have seen him play a bit is whether his quite strong doubles results are because he has skills that make him a better doubles than singles player.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Etienne wrote:
Slipped under the radar a bit but:

Final: (3) Luke Bambridge & Farris Gosea WR 1141 (313+828) def. (4) Mauricio Astorga & Manuel Sánchez (MEX/MEX) CR 1156 (522+634) 7-6 (3) 7-6 (2)

No, it didn't. It just hadn't been played by the time I logged off! wink

Luke & Farris s. biggrin Nice to see them get something out of the week.

RJA · Hall of fame

The Optimist wrote:
RJA wrote:
indiana wrote:
Pity. Luke is defending 13 points next week when these 3 points get added so he will be down 10 to 67 points on Monday week and fall back out of the top 500.

However, he will then have no further points due off until mid September so a big window to hopefully get that ranking moving quite a bit upwards again.
It is certainly a decent window but at the moment there is little to indicate that Luke will take advantage of it as he has only won one match against a top 500 opponent so far this year, and that was his first match of the season.
As I have said before I remain baffled at Luke's lack of progress. There looks to be so much that is good with his game and by all accounts he has a good attitude and puts in the work off the court yet at the moment the results are lacking.
I was never over-impressed with Luke's game as a junior. I always felt that a lot of his good results owed a fair bit to his imposing physical presence as a youngster. Certainly, it always looked like there was so much more in Kyle's and Oli's games for example. So to me it is no surprise he is moving forwards slowly in relation to the progress his junior ranking might have suggested. He has had more to learn and build into his game than others of similar junior standing. That said, work ethic and attitude count for a lot. I see him steadily and slowly moving upwards to whatever his full potential is, rather than having a sudden breakthrough.

Don't get me wrong. I have never seen Luke as having the same potential as Kyle, and to a lesser extent Oli. I did however think that he would have progressed a little quicker and I am basing that on what I have seen from him at futures level and not as a junior.

-- Edited by RJA on Saturday 7th of May 2016 07:12:39 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Luke was good at doubles as a junior, so no suprise he is doing it a senior level

I' be seen enough of him in futures and challengers to say that his ranking will still improve. I think he just needs to be more ruthless when he gets in front.

James · Satellite level

From the limited amount of footage that I've seen of Luke it has always struck me that his future success appears to be heavily weighted on the degree to which he can improve his backhand. There appears to be such a discrepancy between that and the rest of his game. In the matches that I have seen it has taken opponents no more than a game or two to figure that out and to then seek to pressurise the stroke continuously.

Now I haven't watched Luke at all this year, so that observation may now be entirely inaccurate, but I always felt that if Luke could improve his backhand to the point that it was in any way comparable to his forehand he would see a rapid improvement in his results and ranking.