Week 6 - Challenger (€64,000) - Hungarian Challenger Open - Budapest, Hungary - Indoor Hard

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 6 - Challenger (€64,000) - Hungarian Challenger Open - Budapest, Hungary - Indoor Hard

Spectator · All-time great

With this 29 points, he's already handily covered the 10 points that he loses on 27 February. As others have pointed out, he has a lot of points coming off on 20 March - but there's a lot of time (and tournaments) between now and then. Well done to him. Excellent work. And Melzer is fallible ...

seagull · Hall of fame

And I assume an SE to Cherbourg next week?

Spectator · All-time great

Ah, good point! That would be excellent (though qualifying ... and losing in qualies ... doesn't seem to disagree with him either) Watched two games of the following match, which is Casper Ruud v Alexey Vatutin (?). Can't see Ruud staying in Challengers for long, somehow.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Ah, good point! That would be excellent (though qualifying ... and losing in qualies ... doesn't seem to disagree with him either) Watched two games of the following match, which is Casper Ruud v Alexey Vatutin (?). Can't see Ruud staying in Challengers for long, somehow.

Vatutin (q6) beat Ed (q2) in straight sets in the FQR...

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
If I remember correctly, the last time Ed got a LL place in a challenger, he went on to make the final before losing to Evo. Would be good if he could repeat that this time.

It's like dejavu all over again.

Go Ed.

JonH · All-time great

Bob in Spain wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
If I remember correctly, the last time Ed got a LL place in a challenger, he went on to make the final before losing to Evo. Would be good if he could repeat that this time.
It's like dejavu all over again.
Go Ed.

Can you have dejavu all over again?! - sort of like double deja vu or a sort of groundhog day

paulisi · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
And I assume an SE to Cherbourg next week?

Not necessarily. It depends on when qualifying starts. if it starts Saturday then yes, if it starts Sunday then no.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

So Eds 2 best point hauls are both as a LL! Cherbourg is showing as qualifying starting tomorrow so looks like an SE for that.

indiana · Tennis legend

Could they maybe just call him a LL anyway for Cherbourg ?

He sort of is by extension from Budapest ...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Spectator wrote:
Ah, good point! That would be excellent (though qualifying ... and losing in qualies ... doesn't seem to disagree with him either) Watched two games of the following match, which is Casper Ruud v Alexey Vatutin (?). Can't see Ruud staying in Challengers for long, somehow.
Vatutin (q6) beat Ed (q2) in straight sets in the FQR...

Ruud has just beaten Vatutin by 6-2 4-6 7-6(5)... wink

Slightly off topic, Luca Vanni (WR 148/CH = 100 in May 2015/31 years old), the Italian eighth seed, is now the only one left in the draw after Melzer downed Copil (3) by 4 & 4 earlier this afternoon!

Spectator · All-time great

Vatutin looked quite decent in the little that I saw: it looked as if it would be a fun match to watch in full ... and sounds as if it was. But Ruud seems potentially really, really good a la Alexander Zverev.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Slightly off topic, Luca Vanni (WR 148/CH = 100 in May 2015/31 years old), the Italian eighth seed, is now the only one left in the draw after Melzer downed Copil (3) by 4 & 4 earlier this afternoon!

And now Vanni bites the dust, beaten by 3 & 5 by the local boy, Marton Fucsovics (WR 163)! disbelief The draw's wide open - unless Melzer continues his revival!

Spectator · All-time great

Ed Corrie and Jurgen Melzer are about to start play.

Edit: Watched a few points of first game, which Mr Corrie won, and first point of the second, in which he made a very nice passing shot indeed to go to 0-15. Were I Mr Corrie, win or lose, this is what I'd be playing for - the chance to be up against a former top-10 player with lots of points at stake ... and to be playing shots like that. Hope the rest goes as well.

Further edit: I am not suggesting that it doesn't matter whether one wins or loses. Or that individual points are the be-all and end-all. Just that being out there to compete under such circumstances, and competing well, must be an encouragement, no matter what.

-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 11th of February 2017 12:21:58 PM

-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 11th of February 2017 12:52:25 PM

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Lost the first set 6-4 but is a break up in the 2nd, 3-0*.

-- Edited by Madadman on Saturday 11th of February 2017 01:03:22 PM