Week 11 - Turkey F10 ($15,000) - Antalya (clay)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 11 - Turkey F10 ($15,000) - Antalya (clay)

indiana · Tennis legend

L32: Jay Clarke (GBR) WR 480 vs Mariano Kestelboim (ARG) WR 479 (CH 462 in October last year)

L32: (WC) Roberto Preka (GBR) UNR, age 17, UNR as junior as well vs (2) Kamil Majchrzak (POL) WR 268 (CH 257 in October 2015)

Jay could again meet the #1 seed, Vaclav Safranek (CZE) in the QF. He coped quite well last week

Roberto Preka - anyone any info ?

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Not any real information but I think Roberto was the lad behind me in the queue for Wimbledon a couple of years ago. He was training at the Tennis Avenue Academy.

the addict · Tennis legend

Roberto Preka - UNR. DOB 30 June 1999
Entered four futures last year (Spain and Tunisia) won two QF matches (one by ret in 2nd set)
Last week got through one Q round in Antalya.
In juniors, limited tournaments at grade 4 & 5 - some Q wins.

Here's an article about him from 2010
www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/sport/8754694.Tennis_ace_gains_place_on_FutureStars_programme/

indiana · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Roberto Preka - UNR. DOB 30 June 1999
Entered four futures last year (Spain and Tunisia) won two QF matches (one by ret in 2nd set)
Last week got through one Q round in Antalya.
In juniors, limited tournaments at grade 4 & 5 - some Q wins.

Here's an article about him from 2010
www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/sport/8754694.Tennis_ace_gains_place_on_FutureStars_programme/

I was thinking but ITF shows him as never having a senior ranking. But you were meaning he won two futures qualifying matches last year rather than two quarter final matches.

Thanks for the link. So back then 375 of the best juniors in the country were on a FutureStars programme ?!! Surely a misnomer if ever there was one and possibly building false hopes for many.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 05:29:43 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Another nice notch in the belt - does that Derbyshire lad not get tired ?!?

L32: Jay Clarke (GBR) WR 480 def. Mariano Kestelboim (ARG) WR 479 (CH 462 in October last year) 6-4 7-5

indiana · Tennis legend

That's now a nice round 100 ranking points from a full 18 counters, heavily weighted to the last couple of months of last year and the start of this.

... and get unround again quickly ...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Jay Clarke WR 480 vs Omar Salman (BEL) WR 522 (CH = 488 last June)

On the face of it, a good chance of a place in the quarter-finals.

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

How many more futures does Jay need to do well in before he can start trying challengers?

More generally what's the strategy or options available to him or is it too early to say?

Jaffa · Challenger level

I think he'll play futures until the grass season when he'll get a few WCs personally.

Seems to do well on clay though especially, I wonder if they'll be that beneficial to him?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (2) Kamil Majchrzak (POL) WR 268 defeated (WC) Roberto Preka UNR by 0 & 2

indiana · Tennis legend

By the way re Jay's now going to be full 18 counters ...

After Indian Wells there will be only one Brit with reserves over the maximum 18 counters, Kyle.

Aljaz will have the exact 18 and then has Miami points coming off and won't be in the main draw there this year so no automatic points to replace these. Jay will now have at least the 18 post Miami.

Edit: actually Andy will have 18 counters too though one will be his automatic 10 points for his Indian Wells R2 loss ( his first round ) and with the World Tour Finals he is allowed 19 counters.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 16th of March 2017 01:24:02 AM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Born2WinTennis wrote:
How many more futures does Jay need to do well in before he can start trying challengers?

More generally what's the strategy or options available to him or is it too early to say?

It is a really interesting and exciting time for Jay and his team (and to follow them). As a player in genuine transition it is a really good sign to see him give a cohort of futures a schellacing. Kyle dipped his toes into challengers after a decent run of futures in Spain and the British summer wildcards sensibly playing a couple of Eastern European clay court challengers first qualifying in Romania and then straight into the MD for the next. Kyle did go back and give the early year US futures tour a Schellacing before exclusively stepping up to Challengers. So a bit of dipping in and out to get to a position of not having to qualify for challengers and get through a couple of rounds to keep the points level up above the yield from futures wins.

There are some sterner and different futures swings that are worth dipping back into, the US summer swing is topped up with the best (and under ranked) college players giving it a go in their holidays and a good run there on hard courts sets you up well for the often quite heavily loaded Autumn West Coast Challenger Swing, Aptos, Tiburon used to have Sacramento and Nappa! Liam's career high was off the back of such a run after doing reasonably well (Mitchel Franks apart) through the summer futures. The Spanish clay futures run in Feb/march is a bit of a tougher test on clay running into the ore RG Italian and Spanish futures.

Hopefully in a year or two we will all be celebrating another British Binghamton challenger champion asking where does he go next!

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Thursday 16th of March 2017 05:09:45 AM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Get the ranking to 350 and then look to challengers. Then there is a chance he may sneak into a main draw or be seeded in qualifying.
Points v prize money is the debate.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I dont know, I think Jay has done so well recently while 18, hopefully there will also be sufficient support to facilitate development through focusing on performance with opportunities to develop on all surfaces, with that will come points and prize money.

When interviewed that was always Kyles mantra and it seemed a very rational approach for a young player and I hope Jay will now on occasions get exposure to tournaments where he will be expected to win matches in two to three years time but not necessarily now. Kyle got a Wimbledon main draw wildcard at 18 and lost in straight sets an ATP 250 WC etc.. missed potential tournaments to hit with DC etc. No overt realistic yield re points but banking experience and the opportunity to improve.