Week 19 - Turkey F18 ($15,000) - Antalya (clay)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Week 19 - Turkey F18 ($15,000) - Antalya (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

A good week so far for Ryan.

QF: Joel Cannell & Ryan Storrie UNR (1074+0) defeated Sebastian Prechtel & Jakob Schnaitter (GER/GER) UNR (1327+0) by 6-3 6-7(4) [10-3] smile

*****

SF: Anton Chekov (thought he was a playwright - & dead! wink ) & Alexander Pavlioutchenkov (RUS/RUS) UNR (0 [but a CH of 842 in July 2008]+393) vs Joel Cannell & Ryan Storrie UNR (1074+0)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That'll secure Ryan a doubles ranking too, which is always useful.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Ryan was a late starter in tennis, so I think it will take a bit more time for him to develop, especially mentally.

Ability wise, he has the potential to follow in the footsteps of Jay Clarke and break into the top 500, but it will take sometime and probably not for a couple of years.
The first objective is to break into the top 1000 and try and avoid qualifying.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I don't think Ryan was a particularly late starter.

He started tennis when he was about 8, went to a High-Performance centre, then a David Lloyd Academy, obviously was coached by Teacher for three years or so, was one of only four Blue Chip status holders, etc. etc.

He's no later a starter than most, he's just followed a less conventional route.

Ernie · Junior player

I remember reading somewhere that Jay started playing tennis aged 3 so I guess 8 is late by comparison. However, neither took the conventional education route so we're able to focus purely on tennis. Paulis... Ryan had more time than most players of his age to develop, practice, travel and compete, as he didn't have the distraction of school and exams etc.

I agreed, he does have the ability like Jay to be top 500, now he's injury free. He had a good win today, with hopefully more to come!

-- Edited by Ernie on Thursday 11th of May 2017 10:00:52 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As per a couple of years back, post Roehampton, I had Ryan to be top 200. And Jay. And nothing's changed that view.

Mind you, I also had JWH and that went pear-shaped..... cry

But Jonny Gray was the teenager who surprised me this year - maybe I completely missed it first time round but his game at Glasgow seemed to have really evolved, in the best possible way.

I wonder when he'll be back on court?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

NB

I see from Steven's tables that Ryan is also the last man standing this week

(in doubles, that is)

So, no pressure then......

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
As per a couple of years back, post Roehampton, I had Ryan to be top 200. And Jay. And nothing's changed that view.

Mind you, I also had JWH and that went pear-shaped.....

But Jonny Gray was the teenager who surprised me this year - maybe I completely missed it first time round but his game at Glasgow seemed to have really evolved, in the best possible way.
I wonder when he'll be back on court?

Jonny Gray is on the MD acceptance list for the next two weeks' Israel 15K futures.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I find the cohort who don't play lots of junior ITF's but then show up on the British tour interesting. Sean Hodkin (1998) played a couple of grade 4's, that's it and has now had some good wins on the British tour.

I don't know his history, was he hot housed up in Lincolnshire? There doesn't seem to be a major training centre there. I know they have done well in county tennis with Dan Cox and Jo Woolley (in college in a Utah) but great to see talent emerging from the grass roots.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As Indy (and many others) have said: one match can make a difference to the lower-ranked players - and that's the QF win when you go from 2 to 6 points (for the men)

Ryan has just taken the first set 6-3.....

Etienne · Club Coach

He'll serve for the match at 6-5.

His BP conversion is only 2/8. But his opponent is 0/11.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well done, Ryan !

Served it out to take the second 7-5

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

QF: (Q) Ryan Storrie WR 1504 beat (7) Robin Stanek (CZE) WR 563 (CH 258 Sept 2016) 6-3 7-5

SF: (Q) Ryan Storrie WR 1504 v (3) Marc Sieber (GER) WR 301 (CH 226 Feb 2017)

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Friday 12th of May 2017 09:15:03 AM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

That's an impressive win very pleased for him, heard a lot about him over the last two weeks apparently totally committed to being as good as he can be.