Week 1 - Challenger ($75,000+H) - Nouméa, New Caledonia (hard)

Jared · Social player

Week 1 - Challenger ($75,000+H) - Nouméa, New Caledonia (hard)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Playing the likes of Falla week in week out is exactly the type of challenge Cam now needs to lift him through the challenger level, very promising in that Cam settled once he had sampled Falla's game, adjusted in the second, to take it, and then a close third where he had chances.

Lots of experience to take away and learn from, he now needs to play Falla again in the relatively near future to apply what he has learnt. Falla is the type of player a young player rising on the challenger tour should beat, but not necessarily the first time. The opportunity to play a cohort of players regularly and seeing progression is one of the beauties of watching a players development on the challenger tour. A good positive start to 2017.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Wednesday 4th of January 2017 06:43:09 AM

davidn · Junior player

Couldn't agree more Oakland

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Despite the tight loss, this still looks like a strong start to the season for Cam and promises so much for the future.

I still think Cam will be the next Brit to crack the Top 100, although we still have to be patient.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Quentin Halys & Tristan Lamasine (FRA/FRA) CR 450 (216+134) defeated Cam Norrie & Jose Statham (NZL) CR 1228 (540+688) by 3 & 1

Clearly too much of a step up. cry

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity, but looks a good battle in the singles against an experienced campaigner.

Very difficult to tell from the bare statistics how terrible or otherwise Cam's serve was in the first set. Not sure it was so bad.

In that set his first serve in % was a fairly healthy 68% ( his slightly highest set in a pretty consistent 3 sets ) with one ace ( if he'd served 2 he would have basically been on his rate per service game of the other 6 during the rest of the match ) and one double fault. His overall serve points won of 50% ( 1st 57% as pointed to, 2nd 36% ) was clearly low, but then his total return points won, 31%, was lowest in the first set too. His serve may have not been quite on song, but there is clearly much more to serve points than just the serve and I suspect an element of him playing a bit better generally later ( and maybe Falla not as well ? )