Week 50 - Qatar F6 ($10,000) - Doha (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 50 - Qatar F6 ($10,000) - Doha (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Scott Clayton & Jonny O'Mara CR 689 (296+383) defeated Kevin Lynch & Ramkumar Ramanathan (USA/IND) CR 1421 (1192+229) by 3 & 1 smile

BoS is clearly a man in the know! wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Scott Clayton & Jonny O'Mara CR 689 (296+383) vs (3) Bai Yan & Wang Aoxiong (CHN/CHN) CR 1131 (224+897)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

That's a relief. Just a bit of "end of season wear and tear" by the sounds of it, as I suspected.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Unsurprisingly:

QF: (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) WR 248 defeated Scott Clayton WR 712 by 1 & 5

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Easy peasy for the boys - & they weren't hanging about!

SF: (1) Scott Clayton & Jonny O'Mara CR 689 (296+383) defeated (3) Bai Yan & Wang Aoxiong (CHN/CHN) CR 1131 (224+897) by 2 & 1 in 34 minutes! smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Final: (1) Scott Clayton & Jonny O'Mara CR 689 (296+383) vs (4) Edoardo Eremin & Julian Ocleppo (ITA/ITA) CR 1416 (789+627)

indiana · Tennis legend

Scott : 12th doubles final in a row, won 9 of the previous 11 including the last 8. 32 matches won in a row.

Jonny : 10th doubles final in a row, won 7 of the previous 9 including the last 6. 24 matches won in a row.

the addict · Tennis legend

A lot of titles over the last couple of years, with various partners. It would be good to see how they would fare in Challengers, but as Bob said, really need to get their singles rankings up first. I hadn't noticed before, but their ITF profiles names each of them as the others coach

indiana · Tennis legend

It is great consistency but also a bit of a dilemma in that if they want to progress as a doubles pair they really need consistently tougher opposition. Increasingly thrashing CRs normally over 1000 is not the tests they need for that.

I suspect it is just something they will live with for now ( and expand their trophy cabinets ) while they try to progress their singles.

Hopefully Jonny at least can in time get his singles up towards challenger level or at least competitive challenger qualifying.

Spectator · All-time great

Hmmm. Well, it's on my wish list for them at least a few times in the next year to follow Luke Bambridge and do Challengers qualies in singles and a Challengers doubles tournament. Can't think it would hurt their singles, either.

indiana · Tennis legend

Doubles final brings more

(1) Scott Clayton & Jonny O'Mara CR 657 (296+361) beat (4) Edoardo Eremin & Julian Ocleppo (ITA/ITA) CR 1416 (789+627) 7-6(0) 6-4

9th and 7th titles in a row for Scott and Jonny respectively.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Hmmm. Well, it's on my wish list for them at least a few times in the next year to follow Luke Bambridge and do Challengers qualies in singles and a Challengers doubles tournament. Can't think it would hurt their singles, either.

Huge congrats to the Clayton-O'Mara duo smile

But I agree with Spec - surely they should give Challengers a try? To be honest, they're in a wonderful position.

All our futures players should play challenger qualis - it's the only real regret that players have (that I've seen) when they retire - not having given the higher level a proper go.

And it hardly costs anything i.e. playing futures is a sure fire loss (only by winning can you even cover your costs, in a normal situation). And there's no upside from there. Playing and losing in Qs in Challengers is a sure fire loss - but there's just the chance you might win, and then the maths in quite different.

And Scott and Jonny have the wonderful situation where they have high enough singles rankings to make the qualis of some events.

AND they will make the main draw of the doubles so there will be the chance to actually do something interesting.

indiana · Tennis legend

The latest 26/12 rankings ( out early ) show Scott and Jonny ending the year on doubles CHs of WR 267 and WR 320 respectively.

Scott in particular has a limited amount he can possibly rise in the rankings in the new year if remaining playing 15Ks ( the replacement for 10Ks ) with currently 10Ks representing all but two of his counters ( these two being a 25K title and a 25K SF ). His 17 counters are made up of 11 titles, 5 runners up and 1 semi final ( Jonny's 14 counters being 9 titles, 4 runners up and 1 semi final ).

FriendofLouieG · Lower Club Player

I have it on good authority that Scott and Jonny will be trying some higher level events in the new year.