Kyle was magnificent today, as he has been all week. So clutch in that tie-break. A classic Edmund fearhand to seal it.

Just brilliant. 

Stircrazy wrote:

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Un-bloody-believable!

From a 4, 4 & 4 defeat by Isner on the devil dirt at Roland-Garros to a four-set win in his home Grand Slam!  What a night!

L32:  Kyle Edmund WR 84 defeated (20) John Isner (USA) WR 21 by 6-4 3-6 6-2 7-6(5)   

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L16:  (1) Novak Djokovic (SRB) WR 1 vs Kyle Edmund WR 84

Head-to-head:  0-1 (NoDjo beat Kyle by 3 & 3 in the last 64 of the Miami Masters earlier this year).

Topemp wrote:

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Bob in Spain wrote:

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Kyle at 64 in the live rankings looks pretty safe on that number. There are only three players below him that are still in the tournament. The two closest to him, Ryan Harrison and Jared Donaldson would both have to win two more rounds to catch him. Harrison would have to beat Baghdatis and then probably Monfils, while Donaldson would have to beat Karlovic and probably Nishikori. For me, the biggest threat though comes from Del Potro. He is much further behind, but as we know, he is capable of going deep into the tournament,

As for Evo, who is now at 52 in the live rankings, two of the three immediately below him prior to their R2 matches won as well. Chardy lost so is out of the picture. but Youzhny and Marchenlo still pose a threat and could overtake with just one more win. Youzhny plays Djokovic though so unless Nole is really injured, I only see one result there. As for Marchenko, he plays Kyrgios so who knows what will happen there. Of course Delpo could upset the apple cart as well with a SF appearance.

On the plus side, a win for Dan should see him into the Top 50 for the first time, although only just. The additional 90 points would have him at 49, with the same threats above still relevant. A victory for Kyle over Isner, would boost him about another 10 places to 54.

Whatever happens, it's exciting times for Brits at this level. Long may it continue.

And as an after thought, Kyle and Evo are giving Leon plenty to ponder, don't you think ?

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Further to this: Dan will be on 850 points after his 90 go on, and his 15 for Futures Finalist come off. Between now and Aus Open he then has 1 x 80 points (Knoxville CH W); 1 x 27 point futures win and 2 x 7 pointers left. That's a total of 121 points meaning the worst he can possibly be on by Christmas is 731 points (currently WR68). 

On current point totals he'll need another 151 points to be in Top 50 at year end and another 610 points to be seeded bY Aus Open.

Kyle will be on 751 after his 90 points go on and his 16pts from last year's US Open come off.. He then has just 1 x 90 points (Buenos Aires CH W) to defend after that ((and has a 10 pointer he isn't using in his Top 18), meaning his worst case scenario is 671 (WR 82) Kyle will need 210 points to be WR50 by Aus Open or 671 more points to be seeded by Aus Open.    

-- Edited by Topemp on Friday 2nd of September 2016 04:30:10 PM

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Well that's 90 of them in the bag.