Weeks 35 & 36 - US Open

RJA · Hall of fame

Weeks 35 & 36 - US Open

Strongbow · All-time great

Yet again ...

Well done Kyle smile

indiana · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
I know it was only a win over a servebot, but not sure why people think he can't get to the top 10. He has improved a lot recently.

Yay, superb from Kyle biggrin

I would be one who has had some doubts about Kyle reaching the absolute top, though not said "can't" and I've not really seen that used, but hey it may well have been. Why? Because, undoubted great talent as he has shown and progress, I think there have been things to be doubtful about such as his movement and for me a real fire. Less so the cramping stuff which I have brought up, because I saw that as being solved in time.

But recently I have got less doubtful, well particularly very recently What a great breakthrough tournament, whatever undoubted incremental improvements that have been mentioned elsewhere, and he has showed so much, consistency, decent movement, resolve and much more fire than is often seen, though plenty reason to show it here The now consistent pop on service is great to see. There have been times even within the last year when that has seemed almost lacklustre.

Anyway if he now goes on to reach the top 10 and more, congratulations to those who have never had doubts.

Now bring on Rusty !

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 3rd of September 2016 01:28:41 AM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Good morning tennis fans. If you had an early night last night, just thought you might like to know that Kyle won wink

Robin · Lower Club Player

Well done Kyle, this is turning into one hell of a US open for us Brits.

indiana · Tennis legend

The next matches for the top 3 ranked players in the world will all involve Brits

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 3rd of September 2016 06:20:21 AM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

WELL DONE KYLE !!!!! (Having lost much sleep the night before for Evo's match I'm afraid I slept through most of yours. It's my age!)

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Bob in Spain wrote:
Good morning tennis fans. If you had an early night last night, just thought you might like to know that Kyle won

And good morning BiS!!!! Yes, I'm one of those with no stamina who turned in early last night........wish I'd fought the falling eyelids and stayed up now!!

Spectator · All-time great

Bob in Spain wrote:
Good morning tennis fans. If you had an early night last night, just thought you might like to know that Kyle won

While sleeping (yes, I, too, lack stamina) I thought that I heard a cheering sound from the South at an early hour of this morning ...

Well done to him for winning and you for staying up!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just to add to the obvious - simply brilliant.

The tournament that just keeps giving and giving.................

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Another lesson learnt, how to deal with servebots, the best of which probably Anderson normally rank in the teens. Kyle now a major threat to al outside the top 5. Good times ahead me thinks

Jaffa · Challenger level

Bob in Spain wrote:
Topemp wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
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 ?
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
Well that's 90 of them in the bag.

180!!

indiana · Tennis legend

90 of the target when Topemp posted

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Amazing to be talking about Evo being top 50 and target for seeding at Aus Open and in the same breath talking about points coming off from futures last year ha! I also get the feeling with Evo there is more there and that if his effort level was 100per cent allied with a greater fitness he could be top 20. Kyle is harder in some ways to judge as he gives everything and is obviously more level headed.

We may also be seeing a change coming at last. Gasquet, Isner, Federer, Simon, Ferrer wrong side of 30 and the like of Kyle, Thiem and Krygios on the move.

Thiem, Edmund, Krygios, Zverov as the big 4 by 2020

wales1994 · County player

Wow.... what fantastic tennis news to wake up to!!! I went to sleep after one set all, and thought 'Oh well, at least he grabbed a set' - how wrong was I!?

This has to be our best grand slam for some time?