Week 24 - Challenger (€42500) - Aegon Trophy - Ilkley, UK (grass)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 24 - Challenger (€42500) - Aegon Trophy - Ilkley, UK (grass)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Dan's match being moved indoors was a killer, his opponent being far more comfortable in that environment. BUT Dan still had a MP, which when he hit his 2nd shot in that rally, looked long odds on to take. He ripped a forehand cross court deep into the corner which Bai could barely get his racket to. It floated off his racket, and it could have either gone sailing out or landed to give Dan a very easy put away, but it sort of landed in no mans land, and Dan hit a tame forehand into the net. SMALL MARGINS!!

philwrig · Hall of fame

Again very impressed with Joe, that man has a top 300 game on grass, he had a return game at 5-4 in the decider which was complete perfection, didn't catch any of his FQR match.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Joe S was superb against Michon. Great serve, very good at the net.
Dan Cox was much the better player on the grass. The change of surfaces went against him.
Very impressed with Ryan Storrie. His game has come on leaps and bounds since I saw him at Wirral 2 years ago. He has all the shots in the book and was very comfortable in the first set against an accomplished challenger player. Unlucky in the tie break when he slipped on a key point. He was then broken early and his head dropped a little. If he learns to play to a game plan, he could be a top prospect.

Rain came down very hard for quite a while and the courts started to flood with no covers on the outside courts.
They are behind on the schedule and I cannot see much play on the outside courts tomorrow.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great reports from everyone.

Such a shame for Dan about the rain.

Hope Joe gets some good points during this grass season.

Am not surprised that Ryan impressed - with juniors it's never about their absolute level, but the potential - and he's always had that.

Do hope the weather behaves kindly for tomorrow.....

RJA · Hall of fame

Can someone please explain to me what kind of thinking leads to scheduling decision that results in a main draw match being completed ahead of any of the final round qualifiers. The level of scheduling stupidity at multiple British tournaments over the last few days leaves me questioning whether this country should be allowed to host tennis events.

indiana · Tennis legend

I don't disagree that some scheduling decisions around have seemed a bit weird, but on the specific yesterday that main draw match was played on centre in between Joe's scheduled QR2 and FQR so that Monday scheduling in isolation made sense and the weather again caught out players that clearly needed rest before their FQR.

Whether scheduling here before yesterday could have been better I don't know.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Week 24 - Challenger (ï¿½42500) - Aegon Trophy - Ilkley, UK (grass)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Week 24 - Challenger (€42500) - Aegon Trophy - Ilkley, UK (grass)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Given the girls are on outside courts, I'm certain they will be indoors all day. The boys may hang on, but the qualifiers should go indoors if the prospects are poor.

christ · Futures level

Does Mr. Cox's indoors loss yesterday count against his record on grass?

DF · Tennis legend

play begun

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

FQR: Daniil Medvedev (RUS) WR 231 defeated (qWC) Marcus Walters UNR by 2 & 4

FQR: Michal Pryzsiezny (POL) WR 365 defeated Joe Salisbury WR 710 by 7-6(2) 6-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (1) Jordan Thompson (AUS) WR 90 (CH = 89 last month) vs (WC) Jonny O'Mara WR 701 (= CH)

L32: (WC) Brydan Klein WR 275 defeated (4) Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 112 by 6-4 7-6(5) biggrin
L32: Grega Zemlja (SLO) WR 155 defeated (WC) Liam Broady WR 234 by 6-2 3-6 6-4 cry

And would you Adam & Eve it?

L32: (Q) Michal Pryzsiezny (POL) WR 365 vs (WC) Lloyd Glasspool WR 308 bleh

*****

L16: (WC) Brydan Klein WR 275 vs Grega Zemlja (SLO) WR 155

indiana · Tennis legend

I Adam and Eve that's a good draw for Lloyd, if still no doubt a fair challenge, against the Pryzsiezny of just now and Joe running him so close in the FQR tends to indicate that. The real issue may just be how good is Lloyd on grass, it not appearing to be his best surface.

Well done to Brydan, pity re Liam.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 14th of June 2016 07:15:01 PM