Week 20 - Challenger Bangkok 3($50k+H) - Hard

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Week 20 - Challenger Bangkok 3($50k+H) - Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brilliant job, the three of you, and Mark Hilton too, if he's still there. And even if he's not smile

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 18th of May 2016 07:37:52 AM

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

Well done guys, this is proving a very well worth stint! Great to see them all doing well and hopefully pushing each other on!

Jaffa · Challenger level

I remember a couple of years ago on here people were saying how good it would be to have a travelling squad of players in challengers like the French and Americans etc do.

Happening now

goldenboy · Club Coach

what a great week for some of the "next tier" - hope it will continue
looks like hilts is back in blighty from his twitter btw

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Over the last few weeks, I have really enjoyed waking up in the morning and checking the scores. Today is no exception.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Hilts is working with Evo so he will be wherever Evo is. Last time I saw a tweet he was in London watching Villa.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Liam plays tomorrow and it's the semis potentially where Liam and Alex could meet. Every chance of that happening now given how weak that half of the draw is. 22 points and counting here for Lloyd one more win for top 300.

I hope you are right re Liam/Alex of course, but Sam Barry should not be underestimated, despite his ranking.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Round-up, as it doesn't seem to have been done:

L16: Liam Broady WR 252 vs (Q) Sam Barry WR 358 (CH = 286 in September 2014)
L16: Alex Ward WR 283 defeated Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 364 by 5 & 3
L16: (Q) Lloyd Glasspool WR 341 defeated (4) Lucas Lacko (SVK) WR 120 by 7-6(5) 4-1 retired

*****

QF: Liam Broady WR 252 (or (Q) Sam Barry WR 358) vs (PR) Rémi Boutillier (FRA) WR 493 (CH = 235 in May last year) or Mitchell Krueger (USA) WR 288 (CH = 225 last November)

QF: Alex Ward WR 283 vs (7) Zhang Ze (CHN) WR 189 (CH = 148 in May 2013)
QF: (6) Alexander Sarkissian (USA) WR 173 (CH = 157 last month) vs (Q) Lloyd Glasspool WR 341

Spectator · All-time great

Bob in Spain wrote:
Jaggy1876 wrote:
Liam plays tomorrow and it's the semis potentially where Liam and Alex could meet. Every chance of that happening now given how weak that half of the draw is. 22 points and counting here for Lloyd one more win for top 300.
I hope you are right re Liam/Alex of course, but Sam Barry should not be underestimated, despite his ranking.

Nor, alas, should Zhang Ze. But then, the same was true of opponents in the previous two rounds.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Jaggy1876 wrote:
Liam plays tomorrow and it's the semis potentially where Liam and Alex could meet. Every chance of that happening now given how weak that half of the draw is. 22 points and counting here for Lloyd one more win for top 300.
I hope you are right re Liam/Alex of course, but Sam Barry should not be underestimated, despite his ranking.
Nor, alas, should Zhang Ze. But then, the same was true of opponents in the previous two rounds.

To be honest, I hadn't even looked past R2.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

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Paulsi wrote: Hilts is working with Evo so he will be wherever Evo is. Last time I saw a tweet he was in London watching Villa.

Poor Hilts could be a tough year as Mr Learner has dented expectations in B6 from "Rotterdam to Rotherham " . Coaching Evo will have a price to pay.

I hope if we can get a cohort of players (2 or more) on the challenger tour playing the same venues consistently that the LTA fund coaching support through a swing or two.

Spectator · All-time great

I agree that a cohort approach is good. And keep it fluid! It looks, to an outsider at least, as if the US groups with a coach, for example, include different players at different times - not a rigid "X is here to work with Y and only Y" syndrome. Which to my mind is as it should be: far better, as seems to have been done on this swing in Asia (though I don't know who's worked with whom, so the impression may be inaccurate), to get a coach with a small group of players - team spirit, spreading the wealth, etc. And we now have a little cohort of Challenger or potential Challenger players who could play together some of the time - A Ward, Ed Corrie, Lloyd Glasspool, Liam Broady etc. I'm hoping Dan Evans will be on the main Tour primarily ... and assuming that James Ward and Brydan Klein have their own arrangements.

I'm presuming all of the above will be either in Wimbledon Qualifying or Wimbledon main draw. But it doesn't seem beyond the bounds of possibility that several of them could all also have a good US swing in the later summer and then make US Open qualifying as well. At least it's a hope! Wouldn't it be lovely to have four men in the Main Draw and - going on the rankings at present and stepping them up - potentially five in qualifying?

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 19th of May 2016 05:18:38 AM

Spectator · All-time great

On a less welcome note, Sam Barry has taken the first set 6-4.

Spectator · All-time great

Watched first two games of second set, and Mr Barry has broken and held to go up 2-0, though Mr Broady had break point in his service game. Sam Barry's serve reminds me of the nursery rhyme: "when she was good, she was very, very good, and when she was bad, she was horrid." Some absolutely beautiful serves for free points. But some far less successful first serves, too - and when the first serve doesn't work, a player with Mr Broady's consistency has a real shot at winning the point. Back to work - good luck to all playing today!