Week 2 - ATP 250 - ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 2 - ATP 250 - ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand (hard)

FriendofLouieG · Lower Club Player

Dan Evans should be in the MD!

indiana · Tennis legend

Great chance for Cam to add 12 points from qualifying here. Win his QR1 and he would then face the q8 seed Finn Tearney, WR 494 New Zealand WC, or an "Alternate" ( 6 points for just winning QR1 ).

Brydan would face the q2 seed, Steven Diez (CAN) WR 166, or an "Alternate".

The huge bulk of the WR 100 to 250 players clearly have another priority for the coming week.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Great chance for some points here for Cam on his return 'home'. Decent pay check as well

Jared · Social player

Demoliner, 27, is now a doubles (both men's and mixed) specialist, having a current ATP ranking of #67, with a career high of 56, but he used to play more singles and his singles career high was 232. At last year's Aussie Open, he tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, a banned substance, and was suspended by the ITF last May. But after he returned, he did very well, mostly in doubles, the rest of the year. He made the Round of 32 at Wimbledon and the Round of 16 at Flushing Meadows in men's doubles. Cameron should be favored on his "home" courts, but if he wins, he won't be against Tearney. However, he may be playing against a performance-enhanced human, especially engineered to play tennis. wink

-- Edited by Jared on Friday 6th of January 2017 08:42:19 PM

Miriambee · Futures level

Rhett Purcell about to start playing on ATP LS, can't help feeling he's been "roped in" as an ALT, (along with a few others) and is about to play 7th seed.

Hope he doesn't get totally mashed!

Rhett Purcell 1149 vs Jose Statham (NZ) 461

brendan · Strong Club Player

one more match to add, just getting under way now:

Rhett Purcell WR 1149 (CH 1126 in Oct 2016) vs (7) Jose Statham WR 461 (CH 279 in Feb 2013)

indiana · Tennis legend

A few doubles players have stepped in as well as alts.

Qureshi is playing Tearney, Huey playing Diez and Matkowski playing the q1 seed, Ryan Harrison.

murrayman650 · ATP level

Purcell 5-4 up on serve

0-15

15-15

30-15

40-15

5-5

15-0

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40-0

40-15

40-30

40-40

adv Purcell

6-5

murrayman650 · ATP level

0-15

15-15

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30-30

30-40

40-40

adv Statham

6-6

Tiebreak

(Purcell to serve first)

0 - 1*

1*- 2

2*- 2

2 - 3*

2 - 4*

2* - 5

2* - 6

2 - 7

First Set Statham

7-6

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

That's a good effort by Rhett. I see from bet365 it says there's an injury break at the moment.

indiana · Tennis legend

So Rhett had a SP at 6-5* 40-30* then.

Pity that he couldn't clinch such an impressive looking set.

murrayman650 · ATP level

2nd set

Statham to serve first

15-0

30-0

40-0

1-0

15-0

30-0

30-15

30-30

30-40

2-0 Statham

15-0

15-15

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40-30

3-0

murrayman650 · ATP level

15-0

15-15

15-30

15-40

4-0

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30-15

40-15

5-0

murrayman650 · ATP level

GSM Statham

7-6 6-0